The Wrap Up

Parts of the course I found to be OK, some of it has been hard to get a handle on. For me having to do so many comments has been a chore. One thing I did find with it is that it seemed to get staff interacting and helping each other which I found to be the best thing about it.

Will I keep up with some of the course contents I’m not sure, I’ve been on Facebook for a while now so I’ll keep that going, Twitter maybe I will, I haven’t decided yet, LibraryThing isn’t too bad but at the moment I haven’t been doing a lot of reading so it probably isn’t worth going on with it, as for the others maybe not.

I would like to thank Lawley because if it wasn’t for his encouragement I would have given up a week ago, I was getting to the stage where I had enough of it. 

Week 10 - Geocaching

The last weeks part of the course is Geocaching,I hadn't heard of Geocaching until I found out it was to do with GPS (sort of).I don't really think that libraries would benefit from Geocaching. Maybe for specialist libraries but not for a public library. There would be a lot of people who would have fun with this though.  The one thing that comes to mind would be for orienteering, I could imagine Scout groups being into this sort of thing.

Hubby and I have been using a GPS for a few year now, we still manage to get ouselves lost (maybe it's the fault of the GPS).

Week 9 - Podcasts

Seems to be a great idea, especially for those people who need to catch up on lectures or just stay in touch with what's happening around the place or even things they are interested in. Obviously it's something that libraries will be getting into more and more for their clients.

I have to admit though until now I haven't really heard much about Podcasts and I don't really know if I would use it in the future, but maybe who knows a lot of people seem to like it.

But I have to say aint technology great (if you know how to use it).

Week 8 - Online Video

I liked this part of the course because it was so easy I didn't have to think about it too much, would I use it again, I'm not sure I suppose it depends on if I keep up with the blogging, it is very handy for use in a library environment though. I suppose there’s a lot of people who like to use this for putting videos on Facebook etc. There are some really interesting things that you can find on You Tube, but also some really silly things

I love this video because I have a cat myself and I know how curious she can be, especially when I'm on the computer.

Week 7 - Twitter and Facebook

Twitter
This part of the course is Twitter and Facebook, one I am currently involved with the other I have never been involved with before.

I have never wanted to join Twitter but obviously because we are doing this Web training I did it, who knows I may even like to keep it up (maybe). I’m finding it hard to know what to tweet on twitter, I don’t want to sound mindless, (don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that people who use Twitter are mindless just that I don’t want to seem to be). You have to give things a try at one stage of your life don’t you.

Facebook
I have been on Facebook for quite some time now, I find it's a good way of keeping up with people that I don't normally get to see for a while. I don't normally like to give away too much information though eg. my date of birth is only my date and month, not too many photos posted (only because I find it hard to load them), so I think it's important not to do that. 

It's probably great for businesses especially libraries so that the public can keep up with events and goings on.

When going through reading everyone else’s blogs one person commented saying they liked Twitter more than Facebook mainly because of the rubbish that was on there, I am the complete opposite I prefer Facebook to Twitter as I find Twitter to have a lot of nonsense.

Week 6 - Delicious & LibraryThing

Delicious
When I started this part of the course I couldn't understand why they called it Delicious and it had nothing to do with cooking, I still don't know why, but once again I didn't know what I was doing with these ones but we have to give it a go don't we.  Delicious is a good way to store the things that I'm interested in, only thing is I don't think I will use it again. I've noticed that a lot of people on this course enjoy it. I think this is probably one login/username I won’t be using again.

LibraryThing
LibraryThing is probably a good thing to use because it can give me a reference of what I have read, as there are times when I've read something and wanted to read it again and often can't remember the title. It also gives an idea of what other people have read as well. I don't know how many libraries are using LibraryThing but I know our is and I think it's normally what staff have read. 

I had quite a lot of trouble trying to put the widget in, quite honestly I don’t know if it was the instructions or just me getting confused (probably the latter).

Week 5 - Wikis

I thought Wiki was going to be another difficult one to do but I was actually surprised how much easier it was.  I think that because you don't know a lot or nothing about this sort of thing it all seems a bit scary, however I haven't had anything to do with Wiki, I never looked at it. Is it an accurate source of information? 
Also, reading through some of the blogs I get the feeling that most people have the same thought that some of the information may not be as correct as you would think it should be.