Connecting Librarian

Whilst I catch up on quite a bit of reading and get my head around my next planned post, whilst also getting my children ready for school (with my son starting Grade Prep) I thought I would point out a great resource.

Many of you would already have seen at least some of these, but they are all well worth a look. The videos are all quite short (3 to 4 minutes generally) and do a good job of explaining the topic at hand in layman’s terms. Kind of like a video dummies guide.

From Common Craft - “We produce short videos that make complex subjects easier to understand.” The Common Craft Show is a series of free videos on social media topics, which also help them to showcase their work.

Anyway, the ones most of interest to me and I will assume will be of some interest to you are:
Video: Google Docs in Plain English
Video: Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
Video: Blogs in Plain English
Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English
Video: Wikis in Plain English
RSS in Plain English

I would also recommend them as ones to show others who may be struggling with the particular idea being discussed. They are brief, easy to understand, user friendly and even a little bit of fun. Take some time to check them out and enjoy!

I know this is not blogging the Online Conference notes, but I had to take a break from my endless notes! So its back to Learning 2.0.

I had looked at Del.icio.us a while ago and although I have a lot of bookmarks, I didn’t want to share them. I use a lot of bookmarks, but they are all at home and link to things like banking, games etc. However, whilst I was distracted by other things recently (like a conference, organising a paper and a study tour etc), I was thinking about all the websites I come across (usually through RSS feeds) that I can’t use right now, but I know will be of use in the future.

Its been quite a few weeks since I did week 5 of this course, but I knew it was about del.icio.us, so finally those two pieces clicked in my mind and I thought why not use it to create a list of these useful websites, so that I don’t lose them. In discussing them with my computer programmer husband, we also talked about the possibilities of having topic bookmarks organised by topic and potentially private bookmarks in del.icio.us. So from here its explore and find out more!

As for Technorati, as a long term blogger I am well aware of this fabulous tool. But as with everything I have learnt from this Learning 2.0 program, there is always something new to learn, even from things you may already know.