FIRST POST

Student must posts at least once on any area of interest, including labels and one picture.

THESE POSTS ARE NOT ASSESSED.

Follow these instructions to add a picture. 

Firstly select your image. If it’s somewhere else on the web right click and see if the image can be “saved as”.  Some images are locked and are therefore not available for you to use. If it is available, save it somewhere where you can find it again easily. For example  save it on your desktop or on your usb stick. Make certain it is labelled so that you can find it again.  At the top of your post you will see a small images icon. Click on this, then use the “browse” function to find the image you just saved.  Click upload.  You will be given a few choices about location and size of your image.  Always choose save when you have finished.

LAST POST – COMPLETING YOUR ASSESSMENT

Have you posted on your blog for each exercise? 

Have you labelled each of your posts, inserted at least one image into one of your blog posts, uploaded audio and/or embedded a video, changed the colour of some part of your blog, changed the arrangement of your blog, invited 3 of your classmates to be authors on your blog, made comments on at least 2 of your classmates blogs, made a comment on one of your teachers posts on their blog?

Send an e-mail to your teacher at [insert your e-mail address] telling them you have completed your assessment.  This assessment can be completed at any time after Week 12 but the last date is [insert your last date]

Keep your blog until you receive your assessment mark from TAFE. Then you can keep your blog as an example of your work OR you can keep your blog and make use of it.  You can also rename it (If you decide on this option delete your teacher as an author, and adjust other permissions and comments areas) OR delete your blog.

Blog Exercise 16– comment on your teachers blog

Your teacher will have made some posts on their blog about current awareness/trends/issues.  Choose one post. Make a comment on your teachers post (at least 1 paragraph long) discussing the issue or why you agree/disagree. Use blog etiquette when posting, sign your comments with your name. Write a post on your blog to say that you have done this.

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Blog Exercise 15– commenting on other blogs

Take a look at 2 of your classmates blogs – make a comment on at least 2 of their posts.  Use blog etiquette when posting.  Take a look at this site for tips on blog etiquette.  http://blogs.suite101.com/article.cfm/blogging_etiquette

Sign your comments with your name.

Write a post on your blog to say that you have done this - what you said and the names of the people who created the blogs you wrote on.

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Blog Exercise 14– inviting people to be authors on your blog

Invite at least 3 of your classmates to be authors on your blog. Under the SETTINGS tab click on ADD AUTHORS – type in their gmail addresses.  They will receive an e-mail on their gmail inviting them to your blog.

Write in your blog who you have invited.

Use this Google help page for more instructions

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41440

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Blog Exercise 13– changing the arrangement of your blog

You can change the arrangement of your blog easily too. The arrangement of the blog elements can be changed under the Design tab.  Then choose Page elements. This allows you to click and drag to rearrange elements. For example you can make your blog posts section move to the right or left sides of your blog. When you have changed the layout write a blog post about the new arrangement.

You may have already made these kinds of changes to your blog.....

once you have made them  briefly describe what you have done.

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Blog Exercise 12– changing the colour of your blog

The colours on your blog can be changed. Select blogger template designer under the Design tab

Then select Advanced on the left side. You can then change the colours of individual parts of your blog. Change the colour of part of your blog and then write a post about the new colour(s).

You may have already made these kinds of changes to your blog.....

once you have made them  briefly describe what you have done.

                  

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Investigative Exercise 11 Recommendations

Write a substantial post about the recommendations you would make about the use of 2.0 technologies in your individual library service.  Give specific examples from other best practice libraries worldwide.  Provide links to all these examples.  Again use the following 5 categories to discuss in your response - Local Studies, Children’s, Teenage/Youth, Adult Fiction, Information/Reference.  Make certain you label your post, this post will require multiple labels.

                                                         

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Investigative Exercise 10 Evaluation

 Write a substantial post about the use of 2.0 technologies in your individual library service of your LGA.  Discuss what is available in the following 5 library service areas: Local Studies, Children’s, Teenage/Youth, Adult Fiction, Information/Reference. If there are little or no 2.0 technologies for your library service give 3 reasons why you think this might be so. Make certain you label your post.

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Investigative Exercise 9 Community Profiles

State which local council area you live in – you will be investigating your local library service.  Write a post (about a paragraph long) giving a “community profile” of the people/area your library service is for.  Include links to the Council website for your Library service and to the Library section of this website.  This might be a good post to add an image of your library or Council area.

To give you some ideas of what to include in your community profile take a look at this definition

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&rlz=1R2TSAU_enAU372&defl=en&q=define:community+profile&sa=X&ei=zZB4TP_8LsHBcenwzIQG&ved=0CBQQkAE.

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Exercise 8 - CURRENT AWARENESS POST

Watch the following Youtube clip – post a comment in response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7q9u865SVk

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Investigative Exercise 7 Podcats

Podcasting is a way of automatically downloading audio or video files to your computer. You can then play this audio or video file. 'Podcast' generally refers to audio files whilst 'Video Podcast' (or 'Vodcast') refers to the distribution of video files in the same manner.

Find a podcast in any Australian library. Post to your blog a short summary of the podcast. Include the library’s name, title of podcast and link. Make certain you label your post. 

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Investigative Exercise 6 Social Bookmarking

Take a look at the catalogue of the State Library of Tasmania http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/. Search the catalogue for the book Born or bred?: Martin Bryant: the making of a mass murderer by Robert Wainwright.  Read the reviews made by library users about this book.

Also take a look at the system for book reviews by following this link at Clarence Regional Library  http://www.crl.nsw.gov.au/readers-corner/book-reviews/ 

 Click on the section  “to read all book reviews placed from other readers.”   Take a look at the recent reviews made on this catalogue

 Take a look at the recent reviews made on this catalogue.

 Write a post on your blog commenting on the usefulness of these reviews. Do you think libraries should be providing this service? Does the library you use have this option available on their catalogue?  Make certain you label your post. 

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Investigative Exercise 5 Social Networking

People can have their own personal webpage housed in a communal website. It is a great way to build up professional networks and collaborate in a workplace. It is considered a community building tool.  Facebook is currently very popular for individuals and there is a feature where you can create page for a celebrity, band or business.  MySpace has been used a lot by libraries. An example of library activity in 2009 on MySpace is Yarra Plenty Library. Do a Google search for “Myspace and Yarra” to find this site. Also take a look at what the National Library of Australia has done on Facebook. http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/gateways/issues/94/story07.html

Do a Google search for the following phrase - “I'll Bet I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Think Libraries Are Important”. Take a look at this advocacy site on Facebook. It also has some great quotes about the value of libraries. Write a post on your blog about why you think it is a good idea for a library to participate on a social networking site, or why not. Make certain you label your post.

If you are a Facebook member you might like to join the “Libraries are important” site. (joining Facebook and/or joining this site is not assessed).

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Investigative Exercise 4 Youtube

Youtube is a specialised website where videos can be uploaded and viewed. Links from webpages can be made to view the videos.  Videos can also be but embedded in websites for example on a blog. Youtube is very popular and well known, other examples of videosharing sites are available through Google and Yahoo.

Find a video involving promotion of libraries on youtube. It can be serious or funny. Under the youtube video you will see an Embed button. Click this.  A set of html coding will appear. Copy and Paste this into your post.  BUT use the “Edit html” tab button on your post, not the compose button.

Describe briefly the promotion that is being undertaken in the video.

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Investigative Exercise 3 Photo sharing and Flickr

There are websites that allow people to share online photographs.  Their popularity has grown due to features that allow photos to be socially tagged and browsed. Comments can be left at the image point. Two major sites for image sharing are Flickr (run by Yahoo) at http://www.flickr.com/ and Picasa (run by Google) at http://picasa.google.com/.

For this exercise go to http://www.flickr.com/.  Find some photos uploaded by a library anywhere in the world – describe one of the photos on your blog and include a link to the photostream for that library. Make certain you label your post.

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You can try Google support as well for more assistance http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41641

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Investigative Exercise 2 Slideshare

Slideshare is a site where you can upload your slide shows. An example would be a a Power Point presentation which you would like to share with your students.      Take a look at this example which is about serious gaming and libraries. www.slideshare.net/hayesg31

This is the link to slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/  For this exercise find a presentation that could be useful for training library staff.  Write a post on your blog explaining what the presentation is about. 

You can embed this slideshare in your blog. On the slideshare page of your choice click the “embed” button and copy the lines of html code that appear.

Paste this link into the Edit html tab of your blog post.

Make certain you label your post

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Investigative Exercise 1 Blogs

Blog is short for weblog and is a site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often includes hyperlinks provided by the writer. It is the most commonly used of web 2.0 tools. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” For your investigative exercise take a look at these 3 library blogs:

SI Ultimo Library - http://sydneyinstituteonline.net/uclibrary/

John Oxley Library Blog  http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/

The librarian in black    http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/

Write a post on your blog about one of the blog posts you have looked at. Include in your post what interested you about this post. Make certain you label your post.

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