Monday, January 11, 2010

Week 9, Thing # 23, Copyright & Creative Commons


:) I've finally reached the 23rd thing..

In the school library and classroom, we are often faced with copyright challenges of when it is acceptable to copy something and how much of an item [book, website, music, video, etc.] we can copy.

Although we can freely exchange information, but we need to know the responsibility of how we share it, and how we give credit to the author of that information.

- “A Fair(y) Use Tale” video - learn some history of copyright..

- Creative Commons is a copyright license that allows us to choose to share our intellectual property.
There's a book titled "Creative Commons: Non-profit organization, Creativity, Copyright, License, Creative Commons licenses, Waiver, Creative Commons International, Copyleft" [it'll be in our library collection soon].
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YIPPEE!! I've completed learning The 23 Things online tutorial..

However, I can continue my learning journey:

  • maintain my blog
  • add my blog URL to my e-mail signature line
  • re-purpose it as my school library blog
  • share it with my colleagues
  • start a NEW blog or wiki
  • apart from School Library Learning 2.0 for librarians
  • [i learn this as i was working in the library], there's Classroom Learning 2.0 for teachers and Learning 2.0 for teens

Week 9, Thing # 22, eBooks and Audio eBooks

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The thirteenth web 2.0 tools I learn is

With audiobook, we can listen to story been read instead of having to read it ourselves.


Explore World eBook Fair & School eBook Library.

The annual membership is $8.95 per year and we can access audiobooks for free. Worth it??

Week 9, Thing # 21, Podcast

The twelveth web 2.0 tools I learn is . It refers to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet.

Popular podcast directory tools:
iTunes, require a software download
Podcast.com
Podcastalley.com

Interested to learn to create podcasts??
Odeo’s Studio – online recording studio
How to podcast tutorial - free podcast tutorial

  • After exploring, I don't find podcast useful :(
  • I would still prefer YouTube.
  • How about you??

Week 9, Thing # 20, YouTube - video hosting site

The eleventh web 2.0 tools I learn is YouTube.

Online video hosting sites allow users to easily upload and share videos on the web. YouTube is the most popular among 62 video sites. It had over 1 million video views a day and allows users to upload their own video content and embed clips into their own sites easily.

Do we have a video that introduce our (Temasek Polytechnic) library?

How about creating a video with the theme 'Get Inspired @ Your Library'?

Monday, January 4, 2010

Week 8, Thing # 19, LibraryThing

The tenth web 2.0 tools I learn is
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In addition to my post of Week 5, Thing # 11,

LibraryThing
  • developed for booklovers
  • can easily create an online catalog of our own 
  • connects us to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes
Ways to use LibraryThing
  • add a book to our catalog by just entering the title
  • view our  books on a virtual shelf
  • add a widget to display titles that are in our catalog
  • install a LT Search box on our blog
LibraryThing can be for personal as well as organization use. Thus, libraries are using the LibraryThing widget on their blog/website in these ways:
  1. Standard blog widget - Shows books, authors or tags. [Refer to LibraryThing widget at the sidebar of my blog]
  2. Search widget - Let visitors do a search. [Refer to image below]
LibraryThing also has group forum for librarians and there were 6.7 million books cataloged.

Isn't it useful?

Week 8, Thing # 18, Online Productivity Tools

The ninth web 2.0 tools I learn is Online Productivity Tools.

Benefits of web-based applications:
  • eliminate the need to worry about different software versions or file types
  • easily accommodate collaboration by allowing multiple users to edit the same file (with versioning) and provide users the ability to easily save and convert documents as multiple file types (including HTML and pdf)
  • use Zoho Writer and Google Docs to author and publish posts to blog
  • another new free and open productivity suite is OpenOffice.com (it is popular with netbook users who do not want to buy a commercial product for working offline)
  • Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages

After browsing both Zoho Writer and Google Docs, I found that Zoho Writer is much more useful and I would prefer to use it. What do you think?