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NVDPL Playground: #9 A thing about LibraryThing
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. 9 A thing about LibraryThing. Listen to this podcast. Are you a book lover or a cataloger at heart? Or do you enjoy finding lost and forgotten gems on the shelf to read? Add a widget to display titles that are in your catalogue or install a LT Search box. So why not join the ranks and create your own library online. With over 390,000 registered users and over 25 million catalogued books, you're bound to discover something new. Take a look around LibraryThing. And create an account.
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NVDPL Playground: #14 So what’s in a wiki?
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. 14 So what’s in a wiki? Listen to this podcast. A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia. The online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding. Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:. Use these resources to learn more about wikis:.
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NVDPL Playground: The Agenda
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Monday, May 12, 2008. Learning 2.0 Things. Read about the program. Set up your own blog. Add your first post. Learn about how the NVDPL staff blog works. Part 3: Photos and Images. And learn about this popular image hosting site. Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups and 3rd party sites. Part 4: RSS and Newsreaders. Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Google Reader or Bloglines account. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds. Part 5: Play Stations. Take a look at...
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NVDPL Playground: #8 Play around with Image Generators
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. 8 Play around with Image Generators. Listen to this podcast. No, I’m not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators I’m talking about allow you to easily manipulate image and graphics to create fun images like these:. Also try searching for online generators, text generators or image generators! 1 Play around with some image generators and find one that you like. 2 Post the result of your discovery process in your blog. Images created with Dummies Book Generator.
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NVDPL Playground: #4 Discover Flickr
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Listen to this podcast. Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small Vancouver-based website called Flickr. To catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. For the last few years, Flickr has been the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. Work, what groups. Flickr Learn More tour.
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NVDPL Playground: #18 Office 2007
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Microsoft Office 2007 New Features. Changes to Microsoft Office Word. Changes to Microsoft Office Excel. Guides to the 2007 Office System User Interface. Microsoft Office Word Online Tutorials. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Tutorials. This is the version we are currently using. We will be upgrading to 2007 in the future. Hopefully by looking at 2003's capabilities the 2007 version will be an easy transition). Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Tutorials. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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NVDPL Playground: #16 Email best practices
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. 16 Email best practices. Email comes with its own rules of etiquette and safety concerns. This week, we'd just like you to read about a few things to keep in mind when using your email. First, take a look at email etiquette (or netiquette), to go over some basics to keep in mind when writing email. You probably already know not to write an email ENTIRELY IN UPPER CASE, but you might come across something else that you hadn't thought about. An overview from Purdue University. Welco...
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NVDPL Playground: #6 Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. 6 Make life "really simple" with RSS and a newsreader. Have you heard of RSS? Maybe you’ve seen the little orange RSS symbols on websites? Perhaps you’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to this survey. You’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. Stands for “ R. Well, it’s available now through an RSS reader. This week’s discovery exercises focus on learning about RSS news feeds an...
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NVDPL Playground: #17 Shared Calendars in Microsoft Outlook
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. 17 Shared Calendars in Microsoft Outlook. This session we're looking at the calendar feature on Microsoft Outlook. Many of us mark our own appointments on the Outlook calendar, but did you know that you can schedule meetings with other staff members? Calendars can also be shared between groups or individuals. NVDPL uses shared calendars to book rooms or equipment. From Microsoft Office Online:. Respond to a meeting request or notification. Open a shared exchange calendar. Welcome ...
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NVDPL Playground: #13 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. 13 On Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 . Listen to this podcast. OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries? Into a new world of librarianship. To more powerful ways to cooperate. To better bibliographic services. To a temporary place in time. Wikipedia – Library 2.0. Library 2.0 Discussions. List of great references from Wikipedia). Read two or three of the perspectives on Library 2.0 from the list above. About Learning 2.0.
