Wednesday, November 28, 2007

No.23 comment/feedback

I made it! and i have done the survey.
after all the frustrations and joys, doing this training is good fun. and it has become a routine topic at our tea break. at some stage, it is our obsession.
u know why I've been working so hard to finish this? because i have started.
good to experience so many different sites and functions, we can't remember all of them, but they will be somewhere in our memory.

No.22 NetLibrary

i have my library card number and password, easy to log into the netlibrary, after a keyword searching for rotavirus, i located a relevant book called 'The Mother of All Parenting Books: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Happy, Healthy Child From Preschool Through the Preteens', it contains 3 pages talking about the virus, i can go and view the page and also can email the page. i can add it to my favourites after i opened another account for the net library.
http://0-www.netlibrary.com.www.elgar.govt.nz/Reader/
i pasted the title under our library's general search page, it shows the title as an ebook.
i think we can show some interested customer how it works and maybe they can read the screen(not the books) all day and print the pages the want. does that count as our issues?
i think we've been to the elibrary before when it was first introduced several years ago, i even borrowed one for 24 hours.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

No. 21 podcasts

hey, i went to itunes and podcast net, i found something interesting, i tried twice to add it to my blogling list, couldn't, my colleague was with me. i will try it again next time
http://www.podcast.net/show/75405
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

No.20 YouTube & other sites

Hi, Utube again. we've been there on reference training together a few months ago. because it's so popular in our young customers, we have to know something about it.

today, i see it again, and view several videos. i don't like the 70s ads, i quite like this one, only because it's name : rock n roll library, i can see familiar but different library settings.

i wonder, maybe we can put our blogging (learning and struggling) videos on YouTube, so the whole world will know what we're doing.

the biggest thing i hate was, the jerky pictures and music stopping all the time, i am not impatient, but i find it really annoying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItCIHAksjf4

Thursday, November 22, 2007

No.19 discovering web 2.0 tools

i did some tour on http://www.medstory.com/ ,as this is of my interests, i typed the word 'rota virus' , it gave me about 318,000 hits, all about rotavirus, by clicking the links, i can go to different sites, some sites allowed me to add my comment, i think a lot of stories of people's experience can be shared by that way. it also got email, u can email the whole article to anyone asking the question.
i also had a look into http://www.revolutionhealth.com/, this is like a site for latest health news.
i just have no time to explore further.
how people find them? or just by links?

No. 18 zoho writer

oh, i've got into the 'zoho writer', click different buttons to go to it's different functions. i even sign up a new account, i then have my new wiki home page, http://lihao.wiki.zoho.com/

isn't that fun? i changed its colour from default to paddy, i even add a link to it, i know a lot of things can be changed of added, just feel a sudden power of freedom of expression in the online world.

as it's not very complicated, i can be a wiki writer once i retire.

No. 17 SandBox Wiki

hey, can't see the video, takes ages to download and see nothing!
oh, yes, i can see i am able to edit pages, see http://sandboxwikidogs.pbwiki.com/yes%21
and you can see my blog on the bottom of the favourite blog list, http://acllearn.pbwiki.com/Favourite+blogs
is that all for this step?
i now know we cand edit wiki, quite simple