Well, I have reached Week 21 and the 21 Lunges program has come to an end. It has been a long time coming (especially for my mentor Daniel, I am sure). I have been interrupted, distracted and diverted. However, despite some procrastination along the way, the journey has absoulutely been worth it. I didn't enjoy the amount of reading involved in the earlier stages of the program, but all the video clips really helped. My personal favourite modules were Blogs, Social Networks and Photos. I refer to all my favourites in an earlier post which quotes from a speech that I am about to give at ALIA09. I also talk about what I can use in the Library - this includes podcasts and vodcasts, Wikis and Survey Monkey, mashups and Groups. Amongs the things that were completely new to me were Digg, Technorati and Yahoo pipes. Also, I wasn't expecting to start learning about Web 3.0 when I am still mastering and practising new skills and applications in Web 2.0.
Daniel and I have discussed at length what might make this a better progam, particularly as we undertook this as a reverse mentoring - one-on-one learning journey. Shorter would be better, both in module content and number of modules - or self selected modules, so that you could skip over ones you already knew a lot about or used (and I felt constrained to do them all in order and thoroughly).
However, it has been a great experience, so a big thank you to all who wrote the modules and undertook to guide the Library staff through the proram as Library site 'champions'. And additonal thanks to Daniel, for not only the mentoring, but for helping to create and realise the further opportunity of writing about our experiences and presenting them as a paper at the ALIA09 conference in Adelaide in September 2009. Tomorrow, the world!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Web 3.0
For week 20 my homework was to read up on what comes after Web 2.0. It's a huge, huge field. As part of my research was searching for the term 'the semantic web', I found the following reference in the The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography. In 1999, Berners-Lee became the first 3Com Founders professor at MIT, with a joint appointment in the school of engineering and the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory (CSAIL). In 2004 he was appointed to a chair in computer science at the University of Southampton, UK, where he pursues the development of the ‘semantic web’, a hypertext Web that ‘understands’ the content of documents with the help of specific annotation.
Lists polls and....
Week 19 saw me engaging with 43 things. I played around with a couple of goals and here is my link: http://www.43things.com/person/robynsreflections
IM, Skype and Chat
Week 18 was reading all about VOIP and Skype and since the homework couldn’t be done on site, I tried it offsite. Skype is a great way to connect with family and friends who live a long way away.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Forums, groups and networking
Week 17 was fascinating. I looked at all of the recommended sites and looked at particular professions such as aerospace engineering (50 groups on Google Groups 1328 on Yahoo Groups )
and librarians (375 on Google Groups 1156 on Yahoo! Groups ). So much choice, so little time.
It is a bit concerning that I couldn’t find anyone I knew of on LinkedIn or Spoke, I must mix in the wrong professional circles. I will think up some more names and have another go.
and librarians (375 on Google Groups 1156 on Yahoo! Groups ). So much choice, so little time.
It is a bit concerning that I couldn’t find anyone I knew of on LinkedIn or Spoke, I must mix in the wrong professional circles. I will think up some more names and have another go.
Online image generators, tools & widgets
Week 16 is all about Online image generators, tools & widgets and I have spent some time on Sclipo, but am a little frustrated by the lack of quality in the entries. It seems anyone can set up as an authority and there is not as much material as I had hoped for an academic community. There were 5 courses for engineering and 2 for biology, none of which were inspiring. I have signed up – maybe I can add some content in my spare time!
Like Catherine, I have had trouble with yahoo pipes. I have checked out some great ideas, but not been able to run my own. One that I found OK was http://pipes.yahoo.com/brian/GLEvgE153BGfQ1cmEpPZnA (Add Images to any RSS Feed).
I was far more interested on this topic in Survey Monkey, which I have used before and have recommended to others in the Library (and which was subequently used in a staff survey).
I also want to explore more on Bubbl.us I signed up and played around with making visual representations and interconnections with the projects and people I am working with. It was helpful and I will use it again.
Like Catherine, I have had trouble with yahoo pipes. I have checked out some great ideas, but not been able to run my own. One that I found OK was http://pipes.yahoo.com/brian/GLEvgE153BGfQ1cmEpPZnA (Add Images to any RSS Feed).
I was far more interested on this topic in Survey Monkey, which I have used before and have recommended to others in the Library (and which was subequently used in a staff survey).
I also want to explore more on Bubbl.us I signed up and played around with making visual representations and interconnections with the projects and people I am working with. It was helpful and I will use it again.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Photos
Week 15 focuses on photos and my homework is 'go to an image hosting site and do a search for something that interests you and post a link to it on your blog'. So I searched for a charity on Flickr that does incredible work. Here is the link. Enjoy. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=samaritans+purse If you want to know more about the organisation in Australia go to: http://www.samaritanspurse.org.au/
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