Blog Dreaming

The ability to download to a generic player like an ipod is potentially going to open up a new potential for ebooks. The challenge will be to find content that is relevant in schools- the text book market could be an opportunity for developers. In the meantime, we are yet to see the ipod as [...]

I first saw a library’s foray (Murdoch University) into Second Life on the giant wall screen at Expermedia at the State Library of Victoria last year. This experience really “took you into”the simulation- you really felt like you were flying!! It is interesting to see the University and Corporate experimentations with this technology. It would [...]

Look… and ye shall fine. There is some great stuff on Utube about 21st Century Teaching and Leaning. I love this one….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk&eurl=http://www.librarybytes.com/2008/06/education-learning-o-change.html It features Stephen Heppell who I heard speak at a conference in 2000, he coins the phrase “nearly now” in reference to the type of learning environments web 2.0 can create.  He suggests they [...]

Most useful were the resources on how to make podcasts. It could be a great to inspire greater student participation in blogs. See: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/00-podcast-tutorial-four-ps.htm I thought that the Education Podcast Network will most probably have podcasts for my immediate use. Note the section on Information Skills, featuring Connect Learning from David Warlick. http://www.epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=3&openpod=6#anchor6

Once I worked the navigation of signing up to Rollyo, I can see it may be handy as a personal search tool.
http://rollyo.com/index.html.  I used it to create a portal for my favorite Web Indexes such as:
Connect http://www.education.vic.gov.au/secondary/
The librarians Internet Index http://lii.org/
and http://www.intute.ac.uk/
 I have had difficulty making my Rollyo public however to share. Will have to [...]

Wikis appear to present a myriad of powerful possibilities. Eg:
1)      Collaborative subject guide, involving library patrons
2)      Adding wiki functionality, through patron recommendations, within catalogues
3)      Staff projects Eg. Development of library procedures
4)      Collecting blogs ideas. See: http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbworks.com/Links+to+our+blogs
I can see an immediate use in encouraging students to share their recommendations according to genre, so that we can [...]

The hope that the Library 2.0 movement will open up interactivity with patrons is interesting. It seems we have already succeeded in opening communicaton between library colleagues within and beyond library organizations. That in itself is a positive first step.

Now that I have a delicious site:http://delicious.com/blogdreaming I can begin to see what all the fuss is about. It is worth reading the recommended notes from Us.ef.ul. I would agree the secret to this is effective use of tagging. I have also begun to experiment the social networking aspect- finding tags from a fellow user of [...]