mapbuilder

I added Manderfield's to the mapbuilder this afternoon. This is my favorite bakery in the area; everything they put in their cases looks like Bon Appetitt magazine (or better). The owner, Jerry, came to the Library last fall and did a cake decorating workshop. Whenever we have holiday music or special events we try and get our baked goods from them - quality is #1.


Again - I can foresee a few editorial add-ons which I guess the Internet browser would have to check out for him/herself. But, it is all about self-publishing in Web 2.0 - and, why not?

Semester 2 - Final Week

I watched the video about curiosity and couldn't help but think of Van Morrison's song, "Keep Mediocrity at Bay." Using my Web. 1.0 tool, C&P or CTRL P, here are a few lines from the lyrics:

"You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay/
Gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay/
Got to fight with all your might not to get in the bleeding heart's way
You gotta fight for your rights,
you can't bury your head in the sand/
You gotta fight for your rights, you can't just bury your head in the sand/
Politics and religion,
superstition go hand in hand."

Curiosity is the first part of learning. On talkradio once I heard a man say that his earliest memory from childhood was the joy he felt from learning something new. If this "joy" is not acknowledged by parents or teachers, I feel, personally, that it doesn't extinguish the desire to learn. I think we just get quiet about our curiosity....and jump for "joy" on the inside, or, until it's safe to yell, "eureka!"

Play more, learn more, fear less....we can take that with us!

Project Play Ends

I have to say that semester two was less intimidating than semester one with PP; however, there was so many new slick tricks that I will have to revisit some of the lessons.

I would like to see a glossary of terms published or sent out in an email . If this glossary could also have links to useful sites to help us remember why or how something would be used or produced - that'd be helpful, also.

I don't know if our patrons are ready for the length and breadth of Library 2.0 as of, yet. We are still doing the majority of catalog searches for our patrons. But...our computer classes give us a chance to introduce different aspects and future dimensions of the world wide web.

Thank you to Joy, Steph & Beth - great job.

YouTube

Forgot to add comments about likes and dislikes:

• Lots of goofy, amateur, waste-of-my-time videos.
  Like seeing some music videos from the past, (Mary J Blige & U-2 on "One)
• The variety of subject matter is incredible.
• I would prefer searching for my own videos than have people email me links to what they think I would appreciate.
• I believe the best use so far for me has been seeing clips from previous performances of "Once on this Island". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHAquaNe6UY This is a musical (Tony award winner) which Susan Rabideau at UW-Fox Valley is directing this spring. I play a very small role, Madame Armand, but it helped me to understand the story of Ti Moune and how the staging has been done by other theatre groups.

YouTube for Libraries

I believe there is something to be said for using filming programming in libraries and uploading it to the Internet.

Patrons who missed a computer class may be interested in looking at a PPT online, but a moving visual re-creates the class more realistically, I think.

Such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrYesGi1v8&feature=related

YouTube

I will try to embed a Youtube of Gusty Spence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGU_FPN2ac.

ScreenCasting

I followed the instruction at Screen-Cast-O-Matic to create a screencast of a few scenes from Northern Ireland in addition to a couple of photos of Gusty Spence. Somehow the instructions from the website "sneaked their way in" to my cast. Here's the link: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cje2i5VI6

Some rather boring visual.....