Social bookmarks

I've used Delicious for awhile. I started out in Dec 2004 adding links for library newsletters that I had to print off online and have since branched out. The thing I like about Delicious is that you don't have to be on a certain computer but can access your favorites from any computer with internet access. And when you add the Delicious buttons it is so easy to add new bookmarks. I also like that using tags instead of putting everything in folders makes things a lot easier to find.

Social Networking

I found this post on the blog iLibrarian: Hottest Facebook Groups for Librarians. It lists some librarian groups, association groups, conference/event groups, and web application groups (like Library Thing). Might be something to check out.
I also came across Social Networking for Book Lovers in the post 80 Online Resources for Book Lovers; it mentions using places like LibraryThing, Shelfari, Good Reads and some others, to network and share the book reading experience with others.

I don't have a lot of experience using Facebook or MySpace - actually practically none. I signed up for Facebook, probably only a month ago, to see what it was like. Then, I thought I'd see how MySpace compares. I know people that use both, but so far I haven't done much with either one. It isn't very convenient for me to use since I don't have internet at home.
My brother was my first friend on Facebook. He had to sign up for it for a class he took at CUC and since then he has found a lot of people he knows, and some he used to know in Missouri.

As for libraries using these social networking sites, I suppose libraries could make the link to the sorts of services that are provided in the library world - maybe it could be used for research, marketing, support and development of new stuff,... an idea exchange perhaps. Let the word out about what libraries can do.

Wow, it's hard to believe we only have a few weeks left of library 2.0 challenge. How time does fly.

The simplicity of Google Docs

Wow, I think this is a great way to have more than one person working on a document. There it is, everyone can work on it, no emailing back and forth, . . . It is also great that you can access your documents no matter where you are as long as you have, or can find, a computer with an internet connection.

However, the one thing I've found that I don't like is that you are limited to very simple formatting. While creating a document, there were things I wanted to do but didn't have the option to do. I also worked in the spreadsheet area - aah! frustration - one area had been formatted but when I went back to that spot in the document the formatting was gone and when I tried to do it again it wouldn't do it. Oh well, I still think it's a good thing (just call me Martha).

Podcasts

I haven't found a podcast that really interests me yet. I did find one podcast called Library Lady Audiobooks - this lady reading books like Anne of Green Gables and Pride & Prejudice.
I have added a RSS feed for a podcast to Bloglines. I guess I'll see how it goes.

Videos

There are some videos from TeacherTube highlighted in this post from Smart Teaching: 100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques. There are video ideas for classes, using technology, blogs in the class, students blogging, and some weird funny stuff from both teachers and students. I kind of liked The greatest teacher using The Sound of Music to show teaching technique.

I found this video in YouTube ineresting. It is from Anneheim Ballet. They also have videos on how to make a ballet bun, tie your point shoes,...

Web 2.0 blog

I found an interesting blog today called Go2Web2.0 blog. Here is a post from that blog - 39 web based tools that don't require registration


One of the tools listed is kwout. Kwout lets you quote a part of a web page as an image and then you can save the picture to Flickr, post it in your blog,....

Flickr mashups

There are a lot of intersting Flickr tool thingys but it sure can take a lot of time to wade through them all. Here are some of the ones I looked at.

Mosaic Maker would be good to use to make a collage of photos for any project - perhaps pictures from a workshop or special event.

The Palette Generator is really neat. It will create a color palette using whatever photo you choose. It would be great for any project where you want to coordinate colors or decorate a space using a photo as a starting point.

There are multiple photo finders search by color. With the Multicolr Search Lab you can search for pictures with certain colors; you can pick up to ten colors to search. The Color Fields Colr Picker searches for pictures using only one color. The Flickr Color Selectr also finds pictures by color.

And HEY we could all make our own cool badges with the Badge Maker.

Warholizer

Jigsaw

Bead Art
looks kinda like a chart for cross-stitch or latch hooking

Great Idea: National Park Trading Cards

Flickr

Flickr doesn't seem too hard to use. I don't have an easy way to put my pictures in Flickr since I don't have internet at home and no, I don't have a camera phone, but it is easy to blog about a picture you find on Flickr.

I've been able to find photos of places I know that I can blog about. I just wish there was someway to blog about a place with say two photos. So far I haven't found a way to do that by going to the Blog This Photo feature in Flickr.

Downtown KCMO

Power and Light Building, 22 May 2008
Originally uploaded by Rock Chalk Jayhawk Cartographer

I found this picture taken downtown Kansas City, MO. When I was a kid I loved to watch the color changes of the top of this building. And, as a bonus, the glass building on the left with the lights around the top is the tallest building in KC and all Missouri - and my dad worked there for years when he worked for Sprint.

Kansas City Power and Light Building
Originally uploaded by gwENvision

One of my favorite buildings downtown - composite of the changing colors.

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Kansas City has various nicknames. Some of them are:
The City of Fountains
The BBQ Capital of the World
Heart of America
Paris of the Plains
Monument City
The Home of Jazz
CowTown
K.C. or KCMO (Missouri side) or KCK (Kansas side)

Evening on the Plaza, 28 June 2004
Originally uploaded by Rock Chalk Jayhawk Cartographer