Creating and Sharing Resources Online, PALINET workshop

From Barbara Polowy

I attended PALINET's November 19 online workshop, "Now That You’ve Found It, What Do You Do with It? Creating and Sharing Resources Online." I've posted presenter John Houser's Powerpoint slides at P:\Digital Services Team\workshops_conferences\Palinet_tagging_1107.ppt

Houser also compiled this list of links -- interesting discussions of the topic, useful tools, etc.:

Video of Don Tapscott, Chief Executive, New Paradigm, presenting "Wikinomics: How the Smartest Companies Create Value in the Age of Mass Collaboration" at the Canadian Club of Toronto.

Tags Everywhere Firefox Add-on
This add-on to the Firefox browser will display a small tag cloud below the entry for each search result in Google.

Furl, "An easier way to save and share your online discoveries."

Del.icio.us Toolbar for Firefox

Del.icio.us Toolbar for IE

Blogging Made Easier

One of the problems I have with blogging is viewing something on the web, thinking I should blog a comment on it but moving on. ScribeFire is a plug-in/addon to Firefox that makes the blogging process easier as you can actually blog while you are still viewing the web page in front of you. It opens a window below the web page in which you can write your blog entry and then send it up to the blog, either as a full post or as a draft. Check it out

Below is a snapshot of what it looks like with the text of something I posted to the Directors Corner earlier today:

Chris L.

"Being Net Savvy..." resources available.

"In mid-August, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) held a Focus Session on "Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World." The resources from the meeting are now online. They include session materials, podcasts, and speaker interviews. Among the presentations were "Prisms around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy" by Craig Gibson of George Mason U., "Faculty Development and the Net Savvy Student" by Bradley Cohen of U. Minnesota, and "Learning 2.0: Staff Development for a 2.0 World" by Jeff Trzeciak of McMaster U. Several videos of students discussing aspects of being net savvy are included, including one that is an interview I did of my college student daughter, Meg Lippincott."

Resources are available at:
http://www.educause.edu/Proceedings/13056

from Joan Lippincott via Chris Loring

Keep on Blogging!

The 2.0 gang from DST will be posting again soon! In the meantime keep adding your comments on the activities and the blog itself.

Week 3: Library Thing, You Make My Heart Sing!

Are you book lover or cataloger at heart? Or do you enjoy finding lost and forgotten gems on the shelf to read? Then LibraryThing may be just the tool for you. Read a very short introduction to this popular cataloging and tagging tool.

Developed for book lovers, this online tool not only allows you to easily create an online catalog of your own. LibraryThing is also an amazing social space, often described as "MySpace for books" or "Facebook for books." You can check out other people's libraries, see who has the most similar library to yours, swap reading suggestions, and LibraryThing also makes book recommendations based on the collective intelligence of the other libraries.

You can join the ranks and create your own library catalog online. With over 65,000 registered (BTW: LibraryThing also has a group forum for librarian users) and over 4.7 million cataloged books, you may discover something new.

Some Libraries Using Library Thing:
Hampshire College new book lists
Southwestern Community College
Washington State Library

Activities:
1. Explore LibraryThing:

• About LibraryThing
• Library Thing tour
• LibraryThing blog (updates & news)

2. Take a look at Barbara Polowy's virtual bookshelf and visit the SC Libraries on LibraryThing to read about a group of titles the Friends purchased to honor graduating student assistants in 2007.

3. Create your own account and add a least 5 books to your own virtual bookshelf.

4. Click on a book cover in your collection to explore "Social Info" for the title, including tagging, recommendations, ratings, and links to other LibraryThing users who share your interests.

5. Blog about your findings and be sure to link to your LibraryThing catalog.

[Flickr photo by way opening]

Week 2: Flickr, Photos & Images

1. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site. Take the Flickr tour. Try searching for images of Smith College.

2. Upload one or more images to the SCL Flickr space: sclibraries. Our SCL username is sclibraries, the password is sophia (both are case sensitive). Post one of your own digital images, or practice with one from the SCL staff network folder: P:\\2.0images\ .


3. Visit another major online vendor's image sharing space: Picasa. Pam Skinner used Picasa to manage her images from 2006 and 2007 library trips to Kosova.

4. Create a blog post about any aspect of sharing digital images that interests you this week.

2.0 Activities - Join In!

This week we'll start up a series of activities (short exercises) borrowed from the "23 Things" for Learning Library 2.0. Libraries staff can use these to explore and expand their knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.

Week 1: Blogging (June 22)

1. Participate in the blogosphere by reading this blog and by finding out more about the program. NOTE: If you have not already done so, set up your Google account (see instructions below).

2. Post your comments about the workshop and this blog, by clicking on the "comments" links below.

3. Explore other library blogs to find out how and why librarians use blogging:

• Blogs for Libraries: 2005 posting from WebJunction community member Greg Shwartz
• LibDex: geographical arrangement of Library Weblogs
• Open Directory Project: list of Library & Information Science Weblogs with brief descriptions (update in 2007)
  

* The list of "things" can also be found on the 43Things website. Note: This project is loosely based upon the website 43Things (which allows you to set and track personal goals) and the Stephen Abram article titled 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006).

May 23 staff workshop feedback

It was great to have so many SCL staff members together for the Learning Library 2.0 kick-off workshop - thanks to all who came! Honestly speaking, what did you think about the session? [What was most helpful/useful/relevant for you? What was confusing? What could have made the workshop better?]

Welcome to blogging!!!

The Smith College Libraries now have 4 blogs which share interesting information on a variety of library related topics:

Director's Corner
For the Record
Science Library Blog
SC College Archives blog

This blog for the Libraries' Web 2.0 workshop was extremely easy to set up! All you really need is a Google (gmail) email address, and you are good to go. I set it up in about 5 minutes - and now I am blogging already!

Here are the three easy steps:

1. Sign in with a gmail account . . . or, if you don't have a gmail account, the SET ONE UP!



2. Choose a TITLE and NAME for your blog.



3. Choose a TEMPLATE - i.e. the interface for your blog.



4. Start BLOGGING!