Week 7 #16 Wikis

I used all of the resources to learn about wikis. I was familiar with wikipedia but that was the only wiki that I had seen. Wiki, meaning quick in Hawaiian, was developed to allow for easy and fast collaborative development and editing of a website. I looked at all of the library wikis that were listed. Library 2.0 in 15 minutes a day had a 15 minutes a day bibliography that had a master list of 2.0 sites that was very interesting to explore. I liked the Book Lover's wiki. I think wikis would work well for a committee that is working on a project together so everyone could add comments or information to help the committee come to a completed project. As far as a personal use I am active in the Relay for Life and I could see our team or committee using a wiki to be able to share experiences, comments, suggesstions and photos from Relay and to share with other Relays.

Week 6 #15 Library 2.0

Library 2.0 is the term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivery of library services.

I enjoyed the You Tube video “The machine is us/ing us”.

I read a few of the perspectives on Web 2.0.

I read the article “Away from the “icebergs” by Rick Anderson. It was interesting that he mentioned that they have seen a 55 percent drop in circulation rates over the past twelve years.
He also mentioned the "come to us" model of library services , and that we need to find new ways to bring our services to our patrons. I feel HCPL is doing this now with the information that we offer over the web as searching the catalog and access to searching other databases etc.

I also think that patrons will still want to check out a book to read and curl up with instead of reading it on the computer screen. It has been exciting to learn with the 23 things and it will be exciting to see what the future will bring for libraries.

Week 6 #14 Technorati

I looked at Technorati and searched for Learning 2.0. There were 25,934 blog posts about Learning 2.0. Searching with blog directory I found 497 blogs. Searching for Learning 2.0 tags, this brought up blogs, videos and pictures. I did a search for Cal Ripken Jr. and I found a video of a photo montage of Cal Ripken Jr. through his career that was very well done and other videos.

Week 6 #13 Del.icio.us

On to # 13 del.icio.us. I had never heard of del.icio.us until learning 2.0. I watched the video and looked at del.icio.us using the PLCMCL2 account. I looked at a few of the bookmarks and the comments that were added. I like the fact that you can access your bookmarks from any computer.

Week 5 #12 Rollyo

I went into Rollyo and set up an account. I created a recipe searchroll and added it to my blog, the link is at the bottom on the right. I added some of the sites that I have used. You can use it to search for recipes. I can see how this can be helpful for someone that goes to the same sites all the time.

Week 5 LibraryThing

I signed up for LibraryThing. I found it very easy to add books to my Library. I think this is a great site. You can get recommendations on what to read next. I like the book suggester feature. Here is the link to my library.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/kjp

Week# 5 Play week

Here is my Avatar with her Read shirt and in front of the Library. I went into my avatar and changed her outfit. This was fun. I also went into Meez and created a line dancing Meez.