Investigative Exercise 1 What is Library 2.0 – use this in your subject line

Prezi is a site where you can upload or create your presentation.  Take a look at this example which is about Web 2.0 and libraries – sometimes known as Library 2.0. http://prezi.com/g_eqenkx8hfi/web-20-and-library-20/?auth_key=9defdb587434465bc21807256e4739038d9f6e4a

 

Watch this presentation and write a paragraph describing your understanding of library 2.0.

List three Web 2.0 applications commonly used by Libraries

 

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Investigative Exercise 2 Blogs – use this in your subject line

 

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.net/librarianinblack/

 

 

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.

 

Labels to use for this post – blogs, John Oxley Library, Sarah Houghton-Jan. Ultimo Tafe Library, Exercise 2.

 

 

Investigative Exercise 3 Photo sharing and Flickr – use this in your subject line

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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