Depravity on YouTube

After meandering around YouTube for awhile observing dogs on treadmills, old music videos and tutorials on everything from how to french braid hair to use Microsoft Word I decided to look up a library hot topic of the moment. I searched Banned Books Week and found a few great videos. Some spoofed the idea of banning books, some listed book that have been banned but this one was my favorite. A retro video informing the viewer of the "depravity" taking over American news stands, the dissemination of filth!
In all seriousness though it is easy to see how YouTube could be a great technological tool for information literacy and connecting to patrons. Easily accessible, user friendly and open access mean the possibilities are endless. For patrons unfamiliar with how to use a library a YouTube video could be a non-threatening introduction to a whole new world.

Trading cards are fun!

I explored the world of creating your own trading cards and mashups. It was a fun project and I can definitely see how these programs could be used in a public library setting. Visuals to intrigue to public users of a library website are a great way to grab the patrons attention. These programs could also be fun to teach patrons taking computer classes in a public library setting. I made a trading card of my dog Otis, he liked it when I showed it to him!

Flickr Fun

So instead of capturing my library branch in Flickr, I have captured the place where I do my best work, Spot Coffee! I can set up shop and consume caffeine while tackling my mountains of school work! I find it the perfect place really, if I am hungry, there is food. If I need caffeine there is coffee, if I need a mental break, I always see a friend to chat with and I have a table all to myself! The library can be a quiet oasis for study but Spot Coffee is my productive palace!

Techno

So hello and welcome to my technical explorations. This is my first experience setting up my own blog and I have to say the set up was quite simple and fun. I have worked a lot in various Google tools and I find them all very intuitive and user friendly, perfect for those who have some technology experience but not a wide in depth knowledge. I look forward to tackling some new areas of technology in class. I have to admit I am a bit nervous to use Dreamweaver, it seems fairly complicated and my first experiences were not the best. I would actually like to explore the new open access templates for web building such as Drupal. I have read a bit about them and they seem to be the "new big thing."
Well I guess it's time for onward and upward..........