Week 16 Web awards

I thought vufind was very good and will have more of a look at that. I had a look at a few of the others but really couldn't see what was so good about them. Maybe it's because none of the subject areas were really my cup of tea, but I'll look at some more and see what is out there.

Week 15 Flowcharts

I signed up to MindMeister and found it quite easy to get started. I need to write up some procedures for my job, so I just started brainstorming, and it was so useful. I'm going to do more work on this for sure. I'm waiting for the Flowchart access details to be emailed to me to have a go at that.

I got may access to Flowchart, but am having trouble figuring it out. Might take a while.

Week 14 Newsletters

I had fun with this one, but went ahead and created one, then tried to save it and email it, and realised that I should have joined up - which I have now done. I can see that this will be really useful for libraries. Lets see if the link works

Week 13 eBooks

I have just had a look at the World EBook Fair' site and it is very interesting. I tried searching for a couple of authors in the Project Gutenberg section, but didn't find anything, although I guess they are copyrighted. I was at a loss to think of what to search for, and decided to look at the Top 100, where I found The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci.

The information about the Format and Encoding was really useful, but as this is only available as a text file, it was only text, and I think if I'm thinking of the right notebooks, there are a lot of drawings which are quite important. Also this one in particular is not copyrighted in the US, but could be in other parts of the world..... 'If you live elsewhere check the laws of your country before downloading this ebook.' I'm not sure what the situation is here.

Overall, this is a really amazing resource, but I'm not sure how we would use it in our library.

Week 3 Library Thing

Way back in week 3 I wasn't able to use Library Thing at work. It turns out that the search function doesn't work here for some reason, but I got help to find an alternative way to find books. So I have picked my 5 books and hope to be able to add them to my blog. Here goes!

Week 12 YouTube

It's easy to search for stuff and look at it, but when I tried to insert one into my blog I got into a bit of trouble. I wasn't sure what bit I should be copying and pasting into the blog. I worked it out with a bit of help from karen. Then I had to move it around my blog to make it fit. I couldn't figure out how to reduce it in size if that was possible. With some of these things it takes a bit of time to fiddle around and figure out how to do things, but you do work it out in the end.

Week 11

Help! I can't use Podcasts. Are they blocked at Justice?