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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities: Week 7: Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us and LibraryThing
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities. Week 7: Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us and LibraryThing. Watch this videoclip Social bookmarking in plain English. To introduce this week’s topic. The Horizon report (2007). Has this to say:. We’ll be looking more closely at web 2.0 applications that take serious advantage of tagging (we've already looked at several - Flickr. Aka an unstructured categorization scheme. Library of Congress, though, is much more formalized and is considered a taxonomy. Well,...
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities: Week 11: Online applications and tools
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities. Week 11: Online applications and tools. Word processing, spreadsheets, calendars, presentations, project management, and web conferencing are all examples of productivity software. Online versions offer many of the same features yet are quite different from what is installed on your computer. How so? Match up surprisingly well. No installation of software is required. All you need is a web browser and an internet connection. To find out how Google docs works.
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities: Week 10: Mashups
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities. Mashups are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr) and mash it up with another (like a mapping program). With this combination, for example, you get Mappr. Wikipedia offers a slightly more detailed explanation. New mashups come out, literally, every day. Some examples include image generators. Here are a couple of examples we created using big huge labs. Another popular mashup tool is Google maps. I think we could make a...
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities: Week 8: Answer boards and social searching
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities. Week 8: Answer boards and social searching. Takes many forms, ranging from the shared bookmarks we considered in our last lesson (eg. Del.icio.us. Or tagging of content with descriptive labels (eg. Flickr. Question and answer services, to more sophisticated approaches that combine human intelligence with computer algorithms. An example would include the Taste website. Which allows readers to rank recipes and comment on them. Amazon. 8221; once a month around ...
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities: Week 9: Podcasts and Audio
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities. Week 9: Podcasts and Audio. This week we look at podcasts. And audio files.A 'podcast' is a non-music audio or video recording. That is distributed over the internet. The distribution is what makes a podcast unique. It's also what makes a podcast powerful - interested listeners or watchers can receive updates through RSS when new content is posted. Watch this Commoncraft video on podcasting for a simple introduction. And one from the ABC. No podcasts for me!
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities: Week 4: RSS
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Activities. You may have heard the term before, but did you know what the letters stood for? RSS is a powerful tool that can help bring information to you. Take a look at this YouTube. The video mentions the following. You should already have a gmail account. You will be using it in the following activity. Go to Google reader. And create a free account. Once your account is created, add at least 5 RSS feeds to your account. Make sure that one of them is the. Note if you ...
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 ~ Weekly Updates: 16.03.08
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NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Weekly Updates. Thursday, March 20, 2008. NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 – Week Four Update. As we write we now have 959 people enrolled in the program and 668 people who have completed week 2 and beyond. That is 42% of the NSW public library workforce. It’s great to see so many people participating. We were fascinated to read that apparently “ blogging improves your social life. Blogs are listed by the name of the blog:. And V-Z ( numbers and symbols). Participants b...
