Thing #43 Libraries and Hyperlocal Information

I think that these are very interesting and could be wonderful tools.  I do not think that they should, would, or could even be considered for replacing local newspapers though. 
First of all the obvious decline of these certain sites are that being from Nebraska none of these sites pertain to my local news.  Even when I decided to look up a small town in California they did not have any listings for the town.  I realize smaller towns will take some time to show up on such sites, but there is a definite fall back to this. 
I did like the EveryBlock site but then again I would never consider what I found to be breaking news that I must know about.  This website is intresting and informative, but it would not be able to take the place of a newspaper. 
Finally, I also visited the Placeblogger.  I liked this site!  I even decided to sign up for it and added my NECC library blog to the list of available blogs.  I think it was interesting and could be fun for business, individuals and local newspapers.  However, I also found another downfall:  I couldn't find our blog that I had posted for Norfolk, Ne. 
Overall, these sites are great, fun and informative.  For these sites to be considered for taking over local newspapers though, I wouldn't say that it is impossible, but I would have to say that it is definetly going to take some time and tweaking to get to that point.

To understand what these things are that I am blogging about please click HERE , or to see our NECC Library Blog for Norfolk, Ne Click HERE . 

Thank you!

Thing #31

I really enjoyed this video, but it is definetly intresting to check this out almost a year after is was assigned.  The presentation by David Lankes was talking about the downfall of the ecomony which we are definetly facing still now.  Mr. Lankes had some very interesting points, but I will only highlight a few of them here.  One of the highlights I really liked was about Facebook.  Why be on facebook?  We need to have more in depth ideas than just knowing that Facebook is a popular social media and we need in on it.  We as librarians need to have sources and ideas on our facebook pages that would attract people, members, and patrons.
Same with the blog idea.  Some may see it as it's popular we need to get this, they do the blog thing and then no one is viewing the blog. You need to incorporate up-to-date ideas.
I also really liked the discussion on 2-way conversations.  Converesations can teach us things, but we need to be interactive.  We have conversations even when reading a book.  It's not a conversation with the book, the author, or even the book.  It is a converstaion with ourselves.  What is going on in this book, how does this affect me, the character, all sorts of questions and answers that we ponder while reading. 
Overall, I thought it was a great presentation, very interesting, wonderful point, and definetly some points I think I will work on as a librarian.

Facebook Update

Hi everyone,
I did it I made a facebook page for the Northeast Community College Library.  I am very happy with it and would like anyone who is interested to go ahead and go check it out.  Here is the link and thank you Nebraska Learns 2.0.  I think I got alot of my courage from you.  NECC Library Page

Thing #41

I went ahead and checked into the examples given and I checked out the knitting socks and really discovered that knitting socks is rather complex and difficult.  The How to Cook a Steak Video was interesting and I think should be mandatory for cookse everywhere to see this video.  The keyboarding tutorials for kids I thought was great.  I am always trying to find ways as to how to better my typing skills and those are fun for adults as well as children. 

I also looked into the other "How to" sites mentioned like Grasper.  I really thought this was another useful site to find many of these how to videos.  I felt that I did not get the full benefit of Instructables.  I think if I were to have signed up for the full benefits I could of found it more useful, but honestly I was not a big fan of the instructables site.  Monkeysee on the other hand seemed like it had everything.  I really found some interesting How To videos, and that is were I got my links to post. 

Since I swim laps for recreation as much as I can I thought this was an interesting.  I found a How to video on freestyle lap swimming to improve my form.  See this video at the link below that I included from Monkeysee.
http://www.monkeysee.com/play/9107-How-to-Swim-Advanced-Freestyle
The other How to video that I found interesting was on cake decorating.  I am not this advanced at cake decorating but it is really neat to see how it all comes to together.  I got the idea to check this one out because of a friend that said she was taking a cake decorating class.  I will have to show her what I found as well.  Check out the How to Cake decorating video that I found at the link I included below.
http://www.monkeysee.com/play/15852-Fondant-Cake-Decorating-Making-Flowers

As described in the Nebraska Learns 2.0 Thing #41, sometimes seeing how something is done instead of reading instructions on how to do it can be much more educational.  I think both ways of doing things can be helpful it is just depends on how you learn and what it is you are trying to accomplish.

Thing #38

Well I have found something to do for #38.  I am going to go ahead and make a Facebook page for our Library here at Northeast Community College.  I will let everyone know how I am doing and once I get it all together.  I am gonna wait a little while, but am very excited to see if it will take off. I can see that this will be extremely helpful to our Library because as I am learning Face book is not just for people trying to connect with others but also to get people to connect with us here in the library.  I will be able to post events and get lots of information out there about events, new technologies, and research resources. 

The Future

This is such an awesome video on The future of the book. It is inspiring and really gives you a sense of what wonderful things are possible to keep books up to date with our changing technologies.
The Future

Thing #39

Well I went ahead and searched the internet for myself and nothing really comes up about myself.  I have a pretty common name and apparently more people are interested in Sarah Joy Brown (an Actress) then in little old me.  I did create a facebook page though, and that was pretty exciting.  I feel pretty small on the radar, but that is perfectly fine with me.  The only things I did find myself on were a lot of class reuninon pages, All highschools. com, and class finders.  I looked into the Google Alerts tool and I just find it interesting that you can get alerts when someone is doing a search about the things you want to know if people are searching for.  That is an interesting litlle deal

Thing #40 Funky Photos



 

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Redone in Aviary



This is officially my first Thing I have done.  This was so much fun.  I really enjoyed this activity.  I think that I preferred Pixlr over Aviary but it was interesting to see the differences between the two programs.  I really liked the pictures I had found off of various sites and didn't want to ruin them but I do like what I did with them.  I never even realized that it was this easy to find a site that is so differse in the tasks you can complete.





lifelong learning

I am really new to all of these things.  I feel that I am young and should be more aware of all the technology around me.  I am very scared of not fully understanding all the possible things I could be doing to utilize all this technology around me, but hope that I am successful.  I also find it very interesting and hopefully challenging which is great to get over my fears and face the technology at my fingertips.