Wiki Learning

This week I was asked to explore the Wikipedia.

Oh............., after this exercise, I learn something new. -->> Wiki means quick in Hawaiian.

Wiki’s: A Beginner’s Look gives good explnation of the advantage and disadvantage by using Wikipedia.

As anyone can change the file record, it is good for updating the records.

But on the other hand, Wiki is good for a breif introuction only, it is not a good idea for the academic use as there is no authority control.

In fact, lots of academic institution already banned their students to use Wikipedia as a reference sources for their assignment.

I learn a lot for the discovery exercise................

Discovery Exercise:

1. SJCPL Subject Guides – a pathfinder wiki developed by the St. Joseph County Public Library system
2. Book Lovers Wiki - developed by the Princeton Public Library
3. Library Success: A best practices wiki
4. Other library wiki examples
5. PB Wiki Tour - Find out how this collaborative tool can be used
6. PBWiki Video Gallery - Short videos of PBwiki features
7. PB Wiki Tips
   

At last, and most important.................

I also add my blog onto the manukaulearn to prove I did try to explore, learn and play the theroies behind the Wikipedia.

This week we learn how to use the popular image hosting site called Flickr. The picture on the left is the one that I found in Flickr.






icture from Flickr: GTR by sphilli911 and here is the link of that GTR picture. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2326/2354356073_f484a6f889_m.jpg

Then I took a picture from the library that I currently working at, the Botany Library and I uplaod the picture onto the Flickr as well.

I also try some of the fun Flickr mashups and 3rd party tools too. The one that I particular like is Montagr , it create a photo mosaics and it's support Flickr as well.

It is a baby face. This picture is combined with another 500 pictures.

And, this is the trading card I create.

Week 3 -- Play around with image generators

This week, the exercises are fun. It is so excited.

Do you know what is the picture shown above?

Here are two more funny things that I have tried.

Furthermore, I addded the Library Thing Search and The Rollyo Search as well. They are the useful searching tools for the advance librarians.

RSS learning, what's Rss

Hello everyone

For today's exercise, I learn what RSS mean.

The benefit of RSS is the aggregation of content from multiple Web sources in one place.

Librarians may use the RSS technology to receive the latest news which happened locally or internationally. On the other hand, libraries may use the RSS technology to tell its subscribers what are the bestsellers books or other activities happened in the library.

Here are some RSS that I choose.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/Dennis-manukau

First Try on the Web 2.0

Hello everyone

I am very excited to have a chance to know and learn about this kind of the "blog" thing.You know I am a lazy boy and it is very hard for me to sit down and write something.Just like the picture shown on the above.

Luckily, Kelly set up a clear manual for all of us to follow. Therefore it should be not that hard for us to complete the exercises.