Online Application Tools such as google.doc would be a wonderful tool to share with the many library clients who visit the library without any means to save their work. Once google.doc was joined the document could be saved there until it was able to be saved to thumbdrive.
Many secondary school students and universities have laptop programs at their schools and universities where group work on presentations is required. Most teenagers leave these assignments to the last minute!! We all have experienced that on the reference desk!!! All students could be working on their section of the document at their homes on the google.doc site and complile their documents without emails updating information going between students. All students could be working on the document up until the last possible time.
Likewise library staff could work on documents eg policy without the need to send the group involved in the project, updated emails at regular intervals.
Molly
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Mashups
There are so many ways a library could use Mashups. Create Calendars featuring the libraries in the area or historical sites in the area. Create maps of the historical sites in the area and with link to pictures of the site. Local bush walk maps could be created with the highlights of the walks indicated on these. I would love to have someone to show me how and lots of time to do this. For now I just have to make do with the knowledge and hope that one day the time will come. At least I can impart some of the knowledge onto my clients. My highly technical orientated teenages and husband knew little about this area. I'm sure these applications would help with their presentations too.
Molly
Molly
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Podcasting
There are so many libraries out there podcasting.( Mainly American) I can see that it would be a fantastic tool in libraries where there are many visiting speakers. The State Library of NSW would have many talks to podcast. What could the smaller libraries podcast? At Erina library there is a living library. Wouldn't it be a great idea to podcast some of these talks so that any interested people who cannot make it to the library during the advertised times, could hear the stories these interesting people tell. Just need the time and the technology to do so.
On a lighter note its great that the ABC podcast. The missed Summer Heights High episodes and the missed Chaser edisodes are 2 examples of programs that couldn't be missed. Thanks ABC Molly
On a lighter note its great that the ABC podcast. The missed Summer Heights High episodes and the missed Chaser edisodes are 2 examples of programs that couldn't be missed. Thanks ABC Molly
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)