I've enjoyed the structured look at the relationships among and between all of these tools. And I'm sure that my use of all of them has become more efficient and I'm getting more value fromt them. I've made some changes to the "New on the APL Intranet" blog that I think will make it more useful as a historical tool. Also I'm excited about the potential of WikiSpot for FOCOL development.
At this point I'm not sure about the second semester, but if there is room I will certainly participate. Nice job putting this together! Thanks.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
PowerPoint Presentation Creativity
This slide show on making good slide shows is all over the "best" lists lately. I can see why - its very good. Keep for the next all staff training session.
WikiWiki
We've tried several Wikis at APL, using pbwiki. We have one for developing collection plans, one for our periodical committee, an overall one started by Admin for communication and policy development, and several of our taskforces have used wikis to work on documents of various sorts collaboratively. In general, some people pick up the techniques easier than others, and the wikis have met variable success.
I use a wiki for collaboration with other members of an organization I belong to called the Torch Club. We are hosting a convention here in 2009 of the International Torch Club and we're using the Wiki to plan to agenda for that conference. In truth, most of the members are sort of technophobic, so I'm doing most of the editing. But I'm using it as a documentation tool mostly, and it is useful for that purpose.
I'm really enthused to discover the Davis, CA community wiki! About 13 years ago, we had a vision for the organization called Fox Cities Online (FOCOL) that was very much like what Davis has done with this wiki. We didn't find the right technology back then, and FOCOL has developed into a community directory and non-profit web hosting service. It is quite successful, but I intend to show the board the Davis wiki and begin a discussion of incorporating something like it into our site.
For purposes of documenting completion of the assignments: There already was a link to the Appleton Public Library on the Wikipedia entry for Appleton - I think Terry Dawson put it there a couple of years ago. And I added my name to the "I've been here" list on the Project Play sandbox wiki.
I use a wiki for collaboration with other members of an organization I belong to called the Torch Club. We are hosting a convention here in 2009 of the International Torch Club and we're using the Wiki to plan to agenda for that conference. In truth, most of the members are sort of technophobic, so I'm doing most of the editing. But I'm using it as a documentation tool mostly, and it is useful for that purpose.
I'm really enthused to discover the Davis, CA community wiki! About 13 years ago, we had a vision for the organization called Fox Cities Online (FOCOL) that was very much like what Davis has done with this wiki. We didn't find the right technology back then, and FOCOL has developed into a community directory and non-profit web hosting service. It is quite successful, but I intend to show the board the Davis wiki and begin a discussion of incorporating something like it into our site.
For purposes of documenting completion of the assignments: There already was a link to the Appleton Public Library on the Wikipedia entry for Appleton - I think Terry Dawson put it there a couple of years ago. And I added my name to the "I've been here" list on the Project Play sandbox wiki.
Tagging, Tag Clouds, etc.
I've noticed tags and tag clouds for a long time, and generally I haven't been a fan of them. The Cloud concept is cool to be sure, but the tags seem so undiciplined. I became a librarian relatively late in life, and I remember how easy it was for me to "grok" the concept of a controlled vocabulary, and what a revelation that was for me. Now we seem to be moving away from it.
However, that said, this lesson has called to my attention some really good reasons to do it, and I've incorporated tags into my posts on the "New on the Intranet" blog that I maintain. It allows easier access to past posts than scanning through the headlines, and that will only become more important as time passes.
I also found a site that allowed me to display Blogger labels in a cloud instead of a list.
I've had a del.icio.us account for some time, and basically I used it to port my bookmarks from one computer to another. I haven't shared my account, and haven't done much with tagging in del.icio.us, but I can now see how helpful it would be to do so. I'll share once I get things organized a little better. The whole "social" aspect is wierd to me. I get privacy easier than I get sharing...
However, that said, this lesson has called to my attention some really good reasons to do it, and I've incorporated tags into my posts on the "New on the Intranet" blog that I maintain. It allows easier access to past posts than scanning through the headlines, and that will only become more important as time passes.
I also found a site that allowed me to display Blogger labels in a cloud instead of a list.
I've had a del.icio.us account for some time, and basically I used it to port my bookmarks from one computer to another. I haven't shared my account, and haven't done much with tagging in del.icio.us, but I can now see how helpful it would be to do so. I'll share once I get things organized a little better. The whole "social" aspect is wierd to me. I get privacy easier than I get sharing...
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