Monday, October 1, 2007
#3 Grab yourself a blog in 3 steps
My goal in this web learning program is to update my knowledge of emerging web technologies. I will have to take reponsibility for motivating myself to participate. The hardest of the 7 1/2 lifelong learning habits is going to be dealing with obstacles that come up, like taking time to do it when I have a lot of other things to do. I will be confident that I can do what is asked of me, make the most of the technology available to me, and take the time to help anyone who asks me. The easiest part will be having fun!
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RSS or "Real Simple Syndication" and newsreaders are a great idea since they make it much easier to access many sources simultaneously. All the news sources you are interested in can potentially be at your fingertips. I think that whether one is at work or at home, it lets a person be far better informed with less keyboarding and far fewer clicks.
Actually, I found the new feeds search tools confusing to use and most of the blogs I came across I wasn't interested in. The Bloglines tutorial was very helpful and interesting. Also, for some reason the Bloglines website wouldn't accept the information when I copied and pasted from some of the news websites that did have an RSS feed icon. The easiest way to add feeds was automatic when I first signed up courtesy of Bloglines.
When I went to the Generator Blog, I found a link to the http://www.Fotline.com, where I was hoping to create a ripple effect with one of my own photos. I tried uploading the photo from a 3 1/2 floppy to get that effect, but with no luck, but I was able to get a mirror effect. See http://fotline.com/mirror/. Then I was able to find a link to http://www.hottestgraphic.com, where I found holiday graphic (since this is Thanksgiving Day...). Blogger.com wouldn't accept the HTML, though. Happy Thanksgiving!
Library Thing is kind of fun. I took the tour. I cataloged some books - it was sort of like being at library school again! Here is a link to my catalog: Alex's Books.
After exploring a few search rolls, I decided to create my own. First I was given a selection of starter search engines to choose from and my changes were automatically saved when I returned to my own search roll. Then I tried to create a custom search tool, in which you can determine specifically which websites are being searched. I wanted to make an online news search roll, so I included online newspapers from the U.S. as well as Canada and the U.K. For some reason Rollyo.com would accept the English websites, so I was left with fewer options. Also the link I created didn't work when I previewed my blog so I didn't include it.
I checked a few of the Discovery Resources on tagging and they were a little helpful. The article in Library Journal was interesting. Then I checked the QL 2.0 account and I kind of enjoyed browsing through people's blogs. I also read their comments and noticed the tags chosen for one of the bookmarks that had been bookmarked by more users. I can imagine that this tool might have potential for research assistance.
To be honest I had a little difficulty searching for Learning 2.0 in the Blog posts, tags, and Blog Directory. I wasn't sure how to search each separate category except by browsing. What I did was to do an advanced search for the exact phrase "Learning 2.0" and I discovered from the posts was that librarians in Australia and elsewhere in the world seem to be doing the same kind of thing we are, learning about these same web tools and applying them to libraries as well as to personal use.
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