#16 (week 7)

"A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content" It is great !!
Looked at some library wikis and blogs, I like Wiki "Library Success" which was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. I like that ideas -- sharing information about the profession.
Book Lovers Wiki was great too -- looked at the difference types of reviews - it is good guidelines for patron and librarian.
Only one thing, will that be easy to work on and meet the purpose it serve.

Thing 15

I agreed that we librarians are working hard, with the best intentions, to serve our patrons well in a world that has changed dramatically in the last decade. In a new digital lifestyle, Library 2.0 makes the library a social and emotionally engaging center for learning and experience. Our patrons will expect access to everything - digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. I don't think there's any question that we'll help and educate patrons when we can.
The problem is as more information becomes more accessible, people will still need experienced tour guides. This will be the main challenging for librarian to be a good tour guide to access right information for patron.

#14 (week 6)

"Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months." I think the growing of blogosphere is getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster as long as people getting to know "blogging"!!!
Tried a keyword search for "Learning 2.0" under Technorati, 510 results found and after searched under tags, 107 results found.

#13 (week 6)

Read through the notes and had a look of "Del.icio.us" - looked at PLCMCL2 account, read the links and found one of the bookmark called "The shifted librarian: libraries with RSS from the catalog (save this library catalogs with RSS feeds), that was interesting.
Yes, if we have different workstations, it is good to have all our favourites links in one social bookmarking manager as "Del.icio.us" and discover quickly other websites that may be of interest to us.

Thing 12

Easy to create an account with Rollyo and successfully create a search roll for "Chinese food"-

http://www.rollyo.com/maduckie/
Did some search and it was fun to create my own search engine with Rollyo.
The point is that I need time to explore a group of websites that are my favourites and they are the best for my special topic.
Anyway, I enjoyed to learn something new!!!

Thing 11

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/maduckie
"Library Thing" was not hard to use and the explanation (tour) was easy to follow.
It was easy to add books to the list, but not all the books, specially other language books.
I don't think I will use it for my online catalog. It is only for learning/knowing.

thing 10

I used this site http://www.ezsmiley.com/ to create my funny face. It was simple and easy. I tried some other generators, they were too hard for me.
Just under "The Generator Blog", it contains heaps of generators, it is fun but needs time to explore them.