rollyo

My user name on rollyo is catherinef. I created my search roll and named it libraries. I set it up to search the state library of Tasmania, the blogs run by the national library of Australia and my RSS feed to Unshelved. I put these together because I wanted a variety of different sites. The library website, blogs and unshelved comic give me that.
I thought that rollyo was a good idea and a great tool. I would be really useful in a library to have different specific search rolls set up to answer question or research information. However there seems to be some difficulty on the site with actually running the search rolls. 

YouTube exercise

For my YouTube video I showed how to take a video from YouTube and post it in a blog. I then posted it on YouTube here is a link to my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFclkbPI8g  
I really enjoyed using YouTube. I found that i was using it more and more while we are making our blogs. I think that is a great resource. There are so many different videos about anything at all that you are bound to find something that is useful. Using a video would be a good teaching aide to use in the library as it delivers information in a different format in an entertaining way. If you do that people are more likely to remember what it is that you are trying to show or teach them. you can also use videos to help raise awareness about something or just for fun, like some of the videos i've already posted in my blog.

I also looked at TeacherTube. I thought that this was a really good idea because this site is meant specifcally for educational videos. It not only has videos but has audio posts and lists of websites that might have information related to what you are searching for. The only problem with TeacherTube (and why I think that YouTube is better) is that you have to be a member of TeacherTube to access the resources. whereas with YouTube can be viewed by anyone even if they are not a member and take resources

super librarian

library gaga

Singing Librarians

A fun video with all the budget doom and gloom of this year. Thanks to helen for showing me this video

podcasts

For our podcast exercise I looked at the ABC book review podcasts. These podcasts cover many different types of books and also talk about libraries. For example they discuss audio books, youth fiction and it's trends and the future of libraries. I've created a link to them so you can decide which one you might like to listen to
http://www.twinsburglibrary.org/podcasts/bethandcari.xml

They can be really funny and are worth listening to. I've also added another podcast on our class wiki

wiki exercise

For our wiki exersice I looked at two of the library wiki's I looked at the book lovers wiki that's run by Princeton public library and the bull run library wiki. I have also gone on to our class wiki and added a link to my blog. I found using wikis interesting in that you could edit and change or add anything. 
What I think that a library might find it useful for is maybe discussion pages, thinks like books or activites that people want to see added to the library. You could also have one for staff use to help organise events, meetings, plan activites etc.

Using wikis also made me think about the difference between wiki's and blogs. things such as access and privacy who uses them. I found this video on YouTube which talks about it, done as a debate between Nixon and Kennedy. here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFU3sAlPx4

 Please watch and tell me what you think