Week Seven Podcasting and Online Hosted Video

I found Odeo very easy to use. I signed up for NPR Science News Friday, the Obama podcast and Bob Edwards Weekend. I am interested in seeing if podcasts of our weekly CME programs might be something people would use so I need to do more investigation on creating podcasts. The short library orientation podcasts might be good for answering the common questions about hours, available services, etc.

YouTube is an amazing phenomenon allowing anyone to exercise their creativity. I really enjoyed the Galter library video and the clever use of Panic at the Disco music.

Having completed my assignment and exploration I decided to have fun with trying to embed a video. "I Have a Dream" by ABBA.

Week Six Photo Sharing

I used Google's Picasa because it worked well from both home and work. I also added photos to my Facebook page and heard from a friend who enjoyed seeing them. I added one photo and the URL for the Google Picasa album to this blog.

* Do you think that photo sharing services could be useful for you?
It makes it easy to share lots of photos without having to email them. So I think that is a really cool feature.

* What do you think about the Library of Congress flickr and social tagging experiment?
I didn't have time to thoroughly explore the experiment but it gave me an idea--see next question.

* What is next for photo sharing in your library?
I am interested in finding a way to share some of our archival photos so I'm going to experiment a little with that.

New Harmony Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/MaggieBandy/NewHarmony

Week Five Web Office Tools

I only had time to explore Google Docs. I think that it may have useful application for projects I want to do with the other librarians at Exempla. I am not sure I would want to use if for anything where security is an issue. I found that I preferred publishing my presentation to share it so that viewers didn't need to login to view it.

Update: I did the optional assignment of posting a document from Google Docs to my blog. It worked! I deleted it after seeing how it worked.

Week Four Social Bookmarking

I created a del.icio.us account and bookmarked nine pages on multimedia classroom design which was a recent search request. It was very helpful to see the sites other people had bookmarked. What I really like is that I can work at home or in the office and keep track of my work easily. I have been emailing links back and forth and this will work so much better.

Update: The person who got the del.icio.us posts was very pleased with this way of looking at the search results.