Understanding Autism; an educational perspective

Thursday 12 June at 1.30pm

Speaker Judy White, Principal, Special Development School. If you missed this talk last year here is another chance!

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Free Event.

# 23 Is this really the end?

Well like all journeys, this one finally comes to an end. However like most journeys I have learned a lot, become a different person, have new ideas, new goals and a cup full of inspiration to get me started! I think I have learned enough to know what these web 2.0 things are about, and perhaps enough to get me started but with still a lot of learning to go. I feel confident with the blogging now as it has been the step-by-step tool throughout the course and initially I felt that the blog would be the way to develop communication channels with our community. That was until I discovered the Wiki and now I am keen to develop perhaps two Wikis for our community - one for a community calendar for the locals and another about the library happenings etc. The course has been tricky in some parts but I think that the learning package was constructed very well and easy to follow in the main.
Finally I would like to say a big 'thank you' to the 2Ls (leslie and lorraine) for bringing the L2 program to Victorian libraries.
Hip, hip, hooray!

# 22 Audiobooks

There is great potential for libraries to tap into these services. I listened to the demo from Overdrive and can see how we could use this in our library service as a compliment to the Gulliver databases and Tumblebooks (ebooks for children) I'm sure that it would be cost effective and a great service to our patrons. Also - the items would never become damaged, lost or even overdue! Many of the books which I looked at came in various languages too.
This is definitely an area we should become involved with.

# 21 Podcasts

Well I think that this is the biggest waste of time I have ever come across! I hated the podcast searches because I couldn't really tell what the podcast would be like until I wasted more time listening to it!!!! Also you may want to know that I found this message:
Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007
Does it mean just for the day? or for good? (Might affect this program if its for good.)
Anyway I made a podcast myself using Audacity, but came unstuck when I tried to FTP it to Geocities. It was a bit more complicated than the instructions gave credit to.
I couldn't find a way to do it. I was trying to get it to work so I could put it in my blogline instead of one that I found that I liked because I didn't find anything that I really liked! I found them quite annoying actually. Anyway lots of time wasting but I finally got there!

Click Here for my Podcast

Putting my podcast here was a bit tricky because I had to type "Click here for my Podcast" before it would work and it took ages to figure that out, but it wasn't part of the requirements so of course the instruction wasn't included in the program.

# 20 YouTube

After playing around in YouTube I discovered that, whilst technology is making our world smaller, it is also making it much bigger. This stuff goes on forever! I did find a beautiful clip which I will place here.....(hopefully). It's worth watching, so click on the arrow to share the experience!

I think that YouTube is definitely for people who have lots of time to play. I can't really envisage a use for our library as the clips are usually fairly short and what could you convey that someone would find easily? However, I clicked on the 'Upload' button and found that it would be quite easy to do (if I had the equipment to take the video in the first place!)
ps. I loved "conan the librarian"!!

# 19 cruising around web 2.0 tools

Wow! I found a really cool game called GUESS-THE-GOOGLE which I really enjoyed playing and so I ended up getting a little off the point for some time. This is surely a good way to waste time!

http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google

After feeling a little guilty I thought I had better do something more worthwhile and so I played around in Google Doc to see how it compares with Zoho. I have to say I found Zoho more user friendly. I also noticed that Google actually has many applications similar to several of the ones we have been introduced to as part of this course.

docs.google.com

Create and collaborate on files of every kind. See who edited which documents and when.

As for usefulness in the library, well the games....no (but fun), docs.google.com.....maybe, but there are others on the list which would be relevant such as:

www.librarything.com as the most relevant

# 18 Zoho is amazing

Well I managed to create my document in Zoho, test out a few of the editing tools and publish it to my blog here. (Ooops, must have missed putting in the title somewhere! - so I went back into the document, found the place to put the title and reposted it!! How good is that!)