Week 5 - My Avatar

Ok, here is my Avatar I created at http://meez.com. It was pretty simple to create, however it took me a while to do it, since I kept changing my mind. You can see the end result. I am going to create a couple of more avatars (I think meez.com allows you to save up to 6).

Week 4

Pretty exciting week. OCLS definitely has some presence out there, it's nice that we use popular websites to market the library. Was interesting to watch our video from Staff Day once again on YouTube. I also watched videos from Art Festival and Gaming night. The Web 2.0 video that was suggested to watch in our homework took me to Shifted Librarian, but I've already seen it before on Youtube (it's called Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us). Was very cool!

I knew about library's presense on My space, but I was pleasantly suprised to actually see how cool it looked! I enjoyed discovering SEOmoz a lot. I never knew that the websites have been actually rated by someone. It was interesting to see a lot of familiar websites I've used before among award winners (Zellow, Craigslist, Flickr, Google Docs etc.) I've played with some new for me websites out there as well. I enjoyed Lulu.com and librarything.com in book's category. Backpackit was not a new concept but yet very convenient to organize your calendars, to do list etc. Picnik for editing pictures was pretty neat (I'll have to check if it will work with my Macintosh though). I'll definitely go back to SEOmoz to discover some more websites. Great week, lot's of cool stuff!

Week 3

Wow, week 3! What can I say? A lot of information, quite useful. I was not new to RSS feeds idea, however creating a blogline account and having all feeds come to one place is pretty neat. I created 7 feeds for now but I definetely am going to do some more research in that area. I picked cnn.com, some russian news and OCLS updates. Did not do Yahoo pipes yet but hope to find some time in my schedule to play with it. As to Grokker, I have kind of mixed feelings about it. The concept of filtering the info is great but I have a harder time looking up what I need (compared to Google). Maybe I am just new to it. Map view is kind of interesting (somewhat like a PowerPoint Presentation), however I don't know if it's useful when I'm trying to look up something really fast. I think I am more of an audio-visual learner, so I really don't need graphs and charts to easily find information.

Overall, week 3 was interesting. It's nice that it's not just reading, but also listening and watching material that seems to suit my learning style. I am very excited to see what else I'll get introduced to along the way.