week 10

Catch me if you can!

Here is my very dodgy book! Potentially great fun. One day for the grandkids maybe or as a gift for a 21st? I use ebooks both for work and recreation. My ipad is wonderful for that but I also have a Kobo which I need to give to someone else as it was also really handy. The difference in views, backlighting and readers generally is quite amazing. EBooks have now become a regular part of everyday academic life some easier to navigate than others. Our subscription databases provide resources in all formats including ebooks and you can search by that format which is alos useful.

Thank-you for this Felicity. I have been pushed for time (aren't we all) but the resources you've mentioned will be invaluable, the skills I've learnt will either be forgotten or utilised to the max.
I'm going to get our group together and present to the wider staff I've been so impressed.
thank-you
Claire

Week 9 some more!

I've used Youtube Edu before for my work, but I hadn't heard of TedEd or TED for that matter. I can really see me using them both for content in info literacy sessions. Most useful. I've used You Tube to show me how to reseal my bath and how to dismantle a doorknob so these video sites are an excellent resource both personally and professionally.

Week 9

Vocabulary – The Olympics engVid
This site did it all for me! When I clicked on Share I chose Blogger (I had my blog open and it just created a new post! Very cool

week 8

OK searching! I too love google  but this was an interesting exercise. I found that Twurdy gave me the most accurate results as my search was quite academic in focus 'Indigenous health in remote communities'. As far as the one I liked the most Blekko was up there, Qwiki appeared to have novelty value, Kngine only had an app for smart devices unless I was looking in the wrong place. Dewey digger I've used before to teach Dewey Decimal to mature aged students. Podscope has great specific value and Wolfram Alpha just annoyed me!
Some other suggestions 'Yummly' search engine for recipes/food and 'MapQuest' for maps.

Week 7

Check out the little presentation I made in Prezi

http://prezi.com/g95vap3nxzpv/biite-library/

I'm quite certain that with time either software would be great for making presentations. I use an ipad and the app that prezi provides will be very useful.

 I'm about to investigate slide rocket so we will see which I find easier to use. In slide rocket I imported an existing ppt. It gave me as much functionality as does Microsoft PPT so also will be useful for my ipad.

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/12-best-places-to-get-free-images-for-your-site-624818

This site gives you their top 12 free image sites. It mentions MorgueFile and flickr and 10 others such as Stock.XCHNG, Openphoto and Unprofound.

Click on the link to see the water drop photo up close and personal courtesy of Zoom.it and Morgue files
water drop

Just as a note Befunky didn't open for me in Firefox. I used Explorer and it worked fine.

Created this pic with Befunky.
Looks awesome and yes it is a real fish, our mate Chappie caught it, it is a Jewfish, 120cm long caught in Darwin Harbour
Claire

week 5

Well how amazing!
I can really see the use of both Topicmarks and Paper.li. The paper as a way of consolidating tweets feeds etc is very cool.
It will be even better when I get content!
http://paper.li/ClaireNield1/1342930568
Email summaries can be lost in the general influx of mail but as you can control how often it is sent then it can be a very useful option.  Topicmarks  didn't upload a doc for me; said it wasn't in English when it was so I'll have to investigate further but if I can get it to wrk it will be great for my information studies.
claire

Doing several weeks in one hit!

We have had a very busy time lately and of course winter colds and flus abound. I'm trying to get 4 weeks done today to catch up. I've made a Diigo account, tweeted some web pages that I like and tagged and bookmarked them. Next is time management how appropriate!
keep up the good work everyone. Yell if you need a hand

My twitter account

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bring it on!!!
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#1 In the beginning

I use a blog to stay in touch with my family, my husband has a blog has been online since 2007.
I also created a blog for our library so that staff had a place to communicate, socialise and learn the skills of blogging in a less formalised setting.

What is a wiki - a collaborative online tool for fast and easy creation of websites without the need for specialised web design skills. Blogs are more like an online log of an activity/topic. They too can be interactive allowing collaborations and comments but only if permissions are set to allow it. Both blogs and wikis would be useful in our library

BIITE library

Week 1

Welcome to my blog.