Winners are grinners

well we started the trip to SLV with plenty of props and humour...Off to the big city to see if we won the Summer Read event prize! Amanda couldn't control herself...the potential fame of a potential win must have got to her cause when it got to the awards moment we looked like winners until there was a mix up with our name..and in true Broadie/Willy/Justice style she corrected Alan Brough! What a hoot..we recond we came second...so role on next year and go for gold!

thank you Katie

....for a cool party and one of the best projects I have ever been involved in (apart from the ones I have run myself of course!)

...no seriously how good was the last 6 months of Web 2.0..what we collectively learnt could send a rocket into space, not to mention the people/community connection side of things and the therapy that comes from sharing ones thoughts and achievements ...and the fun of it all!

No doubt it will lead to lots of great new things, but for the moment we'll just enjoy where we are...

what terrific promotion and marketing skills you've invested into the Webolution...such a sustained effort...watch out I'll be seconding you for p&m projects soon!

Katie the skills you used to pull this amazing feat off are very transferable..so what's your next great Mt Everest project Ms Dawson??

It's been fantastic working with you, before you know it there'll be an article about you in the local paper...better warn Johnny D to move over!!!

PS. the party was fun tooooooooooooo, you do get to work on these projects with some pretty *** guys wooohooo!

Let's Get This Party Started!!

We've only just begun - reflections and answering the questions - activity 9

What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
blogs, zoho and uTube and don't do this on your RDO!

How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
I don't have any lllgs I just like to learn new things...but I did learn heaps about my colleagues as well as web 2.0.
My new LLLG is to get Katie to help me learn...very clear and supportive!

Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
yes I am taking away that there is a lot to learn...I liked the concepts of Zoho...no need to spend $400 on Microsoft Office!

What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?

Make the program start and finish lines shorter...and not leave it til my RDO to finish!

If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you again chose to participate?
Definitely, my word, absolutely...but only if it's fun!!!

Podcasts.com

i now have yet another account ..this time with Podcasts.com. I have subscribed to the BBC world news podcast and look forward to hearing all the great and wonderful news that is happening in the world every day.

My daughter spends a lot of time downloading Hamish and Andy podcasts..I am now inspired to watch how she does it!!

Free Hugs

In these days of finacial and fire woes I thought I would add one of my favourite uTubes to my blog...only thing is that it didn't work...I will get some help on this one when I get back to work on Monday!

Here it is just paste the link into your browser and be inspired by Free Hugs

Chocoholics Anonymous - be There or be a Square

I did a presentation in Zoho about Choco Anono but unfortunately I can't upload it and there is no one left to help!

So best if you come to the event instead....7th April 7.00pm at AMLLC

Wikis Week Weven

Wikis have great potential to connect people with ideas and things in common!
I joined WikiNorthia to put my families history up there...never quite got the facts on but joining is the main thing!!!

An idea I have for wikis in the HBL context is to get school kids writing a story in common for book week. Jenelle had a great topic...'How the Internet stole the Book'..so we'll see what happens.

There is a library children's services wiki where our lovely librarian JCI is the moderator...check it out at http://kidstrategies.pbwiki.com/

A wiki I found when looking around this activity is
http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page . I think this one is a great resource, I am looking forward to using it!

And my last word on Wikis is that we should have a Hobsons Bay Libraries Wiki.



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More week 6 favourites!

Libraries are not just collections of documents and books, they are conversations, they are convocations of people, ideas, and artifacts in dynamic exchange.

Libraries are not merely in communities, they are communities: they preserve and promote community memories; they provide mentors not only for the exploration of stored memory, but also for the creation of new artifacts of memory.

What was the library of the past? A symbol of a society that cared about its attainments, that treasured ideas, that looked ahead multiple generations. Librarians were stewards, trainers, intimate with the knowledge base and the minds who produced it.

Librarians today are not just inventory management biobots: they are people with a unique understanding of the documents they compile and catalog, and the relationships among those documents.

Week 6 - what I think (with a bit of help from my friends)

Webolution Wocks!

As a Web 2.0 reality continues to emerge and develop, our patrons will expect access to everything – digital
collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. You think they can’t have everything? Think again. This may be our great opportunity.

Libraries are poorly equipped and insufficiently staffed for teaching. Ask yourself what your patron-to-librarian ratio is and then ask yourself how you’re going to train all those patrons. We need to focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need, so they can spend as little time as possible wrestling with lousy search interfaces and as much time as possible actually reading and learning.

But if our services can’t be used without training, then it’s the services that need to be fixed—not our patrons. One-button commands, such as Flickr’s “Blog This,” and easy-to-use programs like Google Page Creator, offer promising models for this kind of user-centric service.

We need to find new ways to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting that they come to us—whether physically or virtually. At a minimum, this means placing library services and content in the user’s preferred environment (i.e., the Web); even better, it means integrating our services into their daily patterns of work, study and play.