Week 6: New Search Engines

Exercises: 

Lesson 1: Create your own search engine with Rollyo. (You don’t have to do the de.lic.ious assignment that will come later.)

Lesson 2: Google it’s still the best! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXHCcwS00bk

Extra Credit – 1 each point for watching the following 4 youtube videos and 2 points if you blog how you will use one thing you learned in each video. You can do this anytime during the Library2.0 class.

    Secret Google Tips for Researchers by Tod Maffin

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5 – Cheet Sheet

    These are tips written by  todmaffin CBC’s Technology Columnist

Lesson 3: Visual Search Engines

Discovery:

 Top 100 Alternative Search Engines April 2007

As always please ask Sue or Vicky for help if you are stuck on anything. Or tap into the knowledge of your fellow learners and ask someone who’s already finished the lesson.

 Vicky

Google Cheat Sheet

Google Cheat Sheet

Some cool tricks to use with Google.

 -vicky

Week 5: Wikis

This week’s lesson focuses on wikis.  A wiki is basically a website that anyone can edit, although some wikis are password protected to limit viewing and/or editing to only those with a password.  They are used as collaborative, sharing tools.

• Lesson 1:  Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.

• Lesson 2:  Add a few entries to our Lucy’s Librarians Favorites Wiki.   If you’ve used word processing and watched the Wikis in Plain English video in the above lesson, you’ll probably find this exercise pretty easy.

 If you have any questions, please contact Vicky or Sue S.

Sue S.

Posting to our Readin’ and Watchin’ Blog

A few people have asked how to post a review in the library’s What We’re Readin’ and Watchin’ Blog, so I’m posting the instructions here.  Contact Vicky or Sue if you need help!

You get 1 Extra Credit point for each time you post to  the What We’re Readin’ and Watchin’ Blog, so write up those reviews & collect those points!

 Sue S.

Very Cool-Google Satellite Maps

   

You know I couldn’t leave without out sharing one more web2.0 site with you. I had to share these two photos. They are from google satellite maps.  Go to   Parc du Champde Mars  Paris and move towards the Seine, then zoom in!  Way cool!

 Or even better go to the Empire State Building and try street view.

see you thursday.

-vicky

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah in JUNE

Hi all,

We hear and see you are all a little overwhelmed with all this new info. So we are giving you a present and taking a week off. No new lesson this Friday. Use this time to catch up on lessons, to ask for help, or to read some blogs in your google reader account. 

 Vicky

Reminders

Hi everyone,

 Hope all is going will with your lesson this week. Just a couple of reminders.

1. Blogs are for blogging! Please write about the lessons in your blog. That let’s us know that you did the lesson and if you have any questions. If you have trouble reaccessing your blog contact Vicky or Sue S. we can help.

2. Let us know when you complete lessons. I have ellison die cuts to hand out. You wouldn’t want your collection incomplete!

 Keep on truckin’ on the road to Library2.0.

 Vicky & Sue

Week 4: Flickr

Week 4: Lesson 1:  Flickr Foto Fun 

Discovery Resources:

• Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps)
• Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
• Flickr: Popular tags
              Interesting- Last 7 days
• flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups)
  and let’s not forget to look at some other libraries on Flickr

Discovery Exercises:

1.

Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or,  add the image in your post.

2. 

Go to Use the library’s digital camera,or your own,  to capture a few pictures of something in the library. Upload these image into the library’s Flickr  account [Username: lucylibs  Password: 95cedar ]. If you don’t know how to get the photos from the camera to the computer - here are instructions for using the library’s card reader.  Tag at least one of the images LRW Library Newington and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post.

So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun and if you’re interested in looking at some photo hosting sites, then why not check out Jamie’s recommendations & this Wired story. (Thanks Jamie for the link).

PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette – When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person’s permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren’t taken by you (unless you have the photographer’s consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.

One of my favorite Flickr photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/le_hibou/315949999/

 

Please ask for help from Vicky or Sue if you need it or ask one of your co-workers who has already completed the lesson.