Method 6: You, too, can You-Tube

I checked out the McCracken County Public Library, who posted this video on Youtube. and they use quite a few of the Web resources that we've been learning about through A Dozen Ways to Two-Step, for example, the Flickr Web site to store their library activity photos.

McCracken County Public Library Web site: http://www.mclib.net/staff.html. Used with permission.

Youtube video found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu-TijjVs_g&feature=related

Method 5: Photos and Images

These two pictures of my son happened to be on Flickr on the Texas Governor's Flickr account. These were taken in Baghdad when my son was guarding Governor Perry.

Flickr versus Picasa: I guess I prefer Picasa because I'm more familiar with it, but I have used both.

Method 4: Make life “really simple” with RSS and newsreaders

RSS and newsreaders sounds great if I had an iPhone, which I hope to have some day. I can see how this would be a tremendous time saver on personal communication devices. Right now it's easy to access my favorite Web sites/blogs from the computers I use most often. I'm not there yet, but I see how this could be very useful in helping us sort the overwhelming amount of information we have to wade through daily.

Clutter by Vanessa Roeder. www.nessadeeart.blogspot.com. Used with permission.

Method 3: Computing in the Clouds

Cloud-based Computing - "enables users and developers to utilize services without knowledge of, expertise with, nor control over the technology infrastructure that supports them. Utility computing, conversely, provides on-demand infrastructure with the ability to control, scale, and configure that infrastructure."1

Doug Johnson asks the question Could you live in the clouds? referring to cloud-based computing in his Blue Skunk Blog at http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/3/15/could-you-live-in-the-cloud.html. 2 My answer: yes and no. I love the idea of being able to work on some of my projects from any computer. I tend to email myself projects so I can access them anywhere I can find an Internet computer, but I'm out of luck if I sent the wrong file or forgot to send it altogether. I would definitely not depend on the cloud for my only storage, but I love the idea of having my computer files available from anywhere.

>

On Michael Stephens’ Tame the Web blog post, 4 he advocates the use of cell phones and allowing unfettered Internet access in the libraries, which would pose risks on several levels in public school libraries. Public and academic libraries are different environments and would be more conducive to working wide-open with the cloud and personal and public information and communication devices.

1 Danielson, Krissi. Distinguising Cloud Computing from Utility Computing. http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/03/distinguishing_cloud_computing/

2 Johnson, Doug. Could you live in the clouds? http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/3/15/could-you-live-in-the-cloud.html#comments

3 Roeder, Vanessa. Drifting. http://nessadeeart.blogspot.com/search/label/Illustration%20Friday Used with permission.

4 Stephens, Michael. How can libraries use the cloud? Taming the Web blog, http://tametheweb.com/2008/08/04/how-can-libraries-use-the-cloud/.

Method 1 & 2: Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

I love that the library is ever-changing, always evolving, and technology's merging of print and plastic is introducing more ways of allowing people to access information and reading sources.

A Dozen Ways to Two-Step, Texas State Library & Archives Commission's shortened version of Helene Blowers' work, 23 Things Program, will help me learn more about "emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, society, and libraries access information and communicate with each other."1

This blog was created for the purpose of demonstrating and reflecting on what was learned from the Web-based training.

1 - A Dozen Ways to Two-Step. http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/12things/?page_id=116

Library Elves by Vanessa Roeder www.nessadeeart.blogspot.com Used with permission