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Program Summary | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. On this page you can find an overview of Chisholm Institute Library’s. Read about the program. Create a blog and post to it. Create an rss reader account. Comment on a blog post. Explore Podcasts and Vodcasts. Play with an image generator. Play with Google maps. Play with Google docs. Play with Google book search. Create an iGoogle homepage. Read about Library 2.0. Provide us with feedback. Of the 23 Things. Thing 16 R...
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Thing 8 – Explore podcasts & vodcasts | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 8 – Explore podcasts & vodcasts. A podcast is just a series of audio files available over the internet – but what makes podcasts special is the way that they’re distributed. A podcast comes via an rss feed, just the same way that blog posts come to your feed reader! You subscribe to podcasts in the same way too, so there’s no need to visit websites to check if a new program has been released. Subscribe to it in your...
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Thing 15 – Play with Flickr | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 15 – Play with Flickr. Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags. Work, what groups. Are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries. Are using Flickr for. Interesting – Last 7 days. 8211; OR —. And use your camp...
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Thing 11 – Play with an image generator | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 11 – Play with an image generator. No, I’m not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators I’m talking about allow you to easily manipulate images and graphics for fun! Also try searching for online generators, text generators or image generators! Play around with some image generators and find one that you like. Post the result of your discovery process in your blog. Adapted from the PLCMC Thing.
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Thing 23 – Provide us with feedback | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 23 – Provide us with feedback. You’ve reached the 23rd Thing. Be sure to give yourself a pat on the back for completing the program. For your final 23 Things. Blog post, we’d like you to give us your feedback about the program. We’re particularly interested in:. How could you draw on what you have learned in 23 Things. To help you in your work? How could the library use the technologies featured in 23 Things. 2 Resp...
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Thing 14 – Tame technorati | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 14 – Tame technorati. So how does a person get their blog listed as part of the blogosphere and how can you tag your posts with keywords to make them more findable through a Technorati search? The answer to the first question is that your blog is probably already being captured by Technorati due to the fact that you’re already using Blogger. Your blog yourself. As for tagging posts with Technorati tags? Take a look ...
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Thing 10 – Edit a wiki | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 10 – Edit a wiki. 8220;Sandbox” is the term that wikis often use to describe the area of the website that should be used for pure play. For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set up a whole wiki* that’s for nothing but play! For this Thing, you are asked to add an entry or two to the 23 Things @ Chisholm wiki. 8211; Learn how educators are using wikis. 8211; Discover helpful tips on creating a wiki.
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Thing 19 – Play with Google Docs | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 19 – Play with Google Docs. Another application offered by Google is Google Docs. This is an online word processor and spreadsheet application. Web based applications to rival desktop applications. You should also try creating a spreadsheet by choosing ‘New’ and ‘Spreadsheet’. Write a blog post about Google Docs. How much competition do you think it poses to desktop office suites such as Microsoft Office? A fantasti...
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Thing 21 – Create an iGoogle homepage | 23 Things @ Chisholm
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23 Things @ Chisholm. A staff training program from the Chisholm Institute Library. Thing 21 – Create an iGoogle homepage. Remember the list of Google products and services from last week? Imagine being able to access all of those products from the one website. This is what iGoogle. Allows you to do. Your Gmail email account. Headlines from Google News and other news sources. Weather forecasts, stock quotes, and movie showtimes. Bookmarks for quick access to your favorite sites from any computer. What im...
