Welcome

Welcome to my blogsite. It is called Aquarius after my zodiac sign. One thing that caught my attention is Mary's invitation to have the incentive to brag and show off some tech skills that I will be acquiring once I finish doing the 23 things. I intend to do just that - organize and document the thousands of photographs I have accumulated over time through travels here and abroad. One of my hobbies is scrapbooking but I have not done it for a couple of years now, so the photographs have piled up. I think to continue doing it manually now will take me forever to organize them, so I have no recourse but go electronic. Way to go Web 2.0!

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Online videos and Podcasts

The craze on YouTube has not caught up upon me yet, but with our discovery activity on this exciting video sharing tool and the likes, I am beginning to get interested. I had the chance to see the short videos from the Marymount College website and I thought they are very good starting point for prospective students to get information about the college straight from the people that teach and the people that learn - teachers and students. I checked other school sites that produce similar informational videos about their libraries and I was thinking this could be a good way of promoting our library - who we are, what resources we have, and what services we do for the college community.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

del.icio.us

I have become an online shopper because of the accessibility on the Internet of the goods I want to buy. Never mind that I can't touch them, it gives me the feeling of shopping conveniently without leaving my house or driving and wasting expensive fuel. Now, I can bookmark sites and save them on del.icio.us and just go back and do the shopping later. I want also to be able to store articles and tag them as recreational/professional/humorous or other headings that would easily take me to them.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

P.S. to Google Docs

I found out the other day while getting ready to go to work that I needed to call a student worker immediately. I didn't have her cell number with me. It occurred to me that if I had the contact sheet for the Library student workers saved somewhere not in my H drive at my work computer, then I could access their numbers easily where a computer is readily available. I just made a list on Google docs and sent it to the other librarians for whatever purpose they might need it in the future. Also, I copied the student workers' schedule onto the Google docs spreadsheet for the same reason. I just found out a use of Google docs for myself.

Wikis

After two weeks of being absent in the blogging scene, I am trying to catch up. Wikis - I am ambivalent about a lot of things in Web 2.0 and wikis is one of them. Wikis are in constant state of instability, entries are unpolished, validity and reliability are absent. They say that wikis are chaotic and I don’t accept chaos most of the time, but being in a territory where change is constant and new technologies are an everyday occurrence, I will have to accept it. I have to remember that I don’t render service for myself but for a particular type of clientele and their needs and satisfaction are my foremost concerns. These feelings stem most likely from ignorance and fear since my experience with wikis range from little to zero. I am not discounting the fact that once I learn the intricacies of creating, editing, and maintaining wikis, I might change my mind. I am looking forward to that.