Thursday 1 February 2007

#23 This is the end...

So in summary I did enjoy learning these things once I got into it. I had absolutly no time at work, with the computer server crashing, limited hours I work and christmas activites, etc gettin gin the way. I have felt I have learnt a lot of new technologies and now that I have a heap of new web tools (&passwords!!) that I've logged into - it will be easier to find the time to go into them and do some more exploring.
Some things like YouTube & ITunes, we already use a lot at home - and now there is plenty more to explore!!

I will end with attempting to attach another picture of my new storytelling chair. I heard about this idea at a children's librarians conference years ago and has always been in my mind to start a new year off with it - but then I kept forgetting to get it ready. The other day I found the chair cover at Spotlight and my friend who is a far better sewer than me, found some material to make me pockets at the side to 'house' the books I will read at the session along with my puppets and other props. The deep pockets will keep everything hidden to create the element of surprise for the children! It will also save me wheeling a trolley out!
Next Friday (9th Feb) storytime resumes and will be the time to test it out!

Also, can't resist adding another photo of my daughter - her first day of prep today!!
Thanks!!!

#22 Netlibrary

Am I having a wierd night? I just tried the link from the 23 things for this and it came up with an error -
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then I went to our homepage and the link to netlibrary in the databases took me to -
http://bww.dnb.com.au/ (marketing business who's who??)

So I guessed the web address and spent agers lost around 'title select' which made me really confused as it kept calculating a price?
I then logged in again and came up with a totally different looking page - where I could click on ebooks - I choose 'The Railway Children' but am really tired and can't seem to find any sort of 'download' as it automatically opens for me in full screen and I can read the contents and whole book straight away?

#21 Podcasting

We already have ITunes on our mac, so decided to try podcast.net where I found an interesting podcast from a teen librarian, who has a website teenlibrarian.com - she used this podcast to express her disagreements with an article a woman wrote in a magazine staing that teen 'problem' novels were poorly written and not worth recommending. The only thing I did not like about this podcast was there wa sno duration time so you had no idea how long it was going to be!

I then tried yahoo podcasts and this took me a while to find something related to libraries. There was a link to some library songs podcaster - "The OPAC sucks' and 'The rhythm of reference' which were pretty funny. There was a website for these for the laughing librarian, however I didn't think I should link to that as there was some pretty crud stuff there.

I tried doing a RSS feed of another site that provided 'homework' for their storytimes by podcasting what songs they were doing for the parents to then practice at home (GREAT IDEA!) however even though I have the 'sub with bloglines' on my bookmark, it kept telling me 'no RSS feeds found'. I then tried cutting and pasting to my bloglines, however the same thing happened? The RSS feed is: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/singalong. This was from the Liverpool Public Library - http://www.lpl.org. There was also a link to another site I might use in the future - http://ilovethatteachingidea.com/