Published photo in Schmap

Included under heading of Wolf Blass Wines is one of the photos I took when I went to Adelaide which is one of the photos in photo 34, do have a look.

Can also look for this Adelaide Museum link

Rob and Dee's Engagement Party

The Amazing Ting Brothers performing.

#23 Hooray!!!!!!!!!!

Have just completed the evaluation for this exercise. I have enjoyed the learning and look forward to using all I have learnt, will use it to improve my facebook blogging in my own private network to keep my friends and relatives up-to-date. Thanks for the great experience.

#22 - ebooks

Had a tough time trying to log on to Introduction to Netlibrary, but was able to load it finally last night. Reading the ebooks on Netlibrary might appeal to our younger generation but I pefer the printed version as it is not so stressful on the eyes.Using the computer for long period of time may cause eye strain and vision problems. Using the Netlibrary, ebooks can be downloaded onto disks or portable devices to be read at leisure. However, these ebooks have an expiry date and can be renewed just like a library book. In the case of ebooks on the Project Gutenburg these ebooks belong to the person who has downloaded it.

The wireless electronic book reader Kindle produced by Amazon looks good but I still prefer the written word.

#21 (Week 9) - Podcasts

Have had a look at podcast and am interested in learning Mandarin. Located one and included it in my bloglines

Will be checking this podcast to help me learn. The website is SBS Radio - Mandarin.

#20 (Week 9) - YouTube

Have used YouTube before to look at videos of Teresa Teng. She was a famous singer born in Taiwan. Unfortunately she died at 42,in Thailand as a result of an asthma attack. Found lots of her songs and some of them in Malay and Hokkien with lyrics. I like to look at this website from time to time and reminisce.

Today while looking found videos teaching us how to draw manga comics, teenagers could look at these videos and learn from them instead of from the books. Have a look at the video as attached

This could be useful on library websites as teenagers can check them out instead of taking out the books.

#19 - Discovering Web2.0 tools

I had a look at Imcooked website, video recipe sharing. Had difficulty in loading the videos, took a long time and then it didn't play.

Had a look at ifoods.tv but also had trouble loading. Need faster internet connection to look at these websites.

Decided to have a look at a website instead. Browsed Revolution Health , winner of the Health category and found it quite interesting. Will be bookmarking it so that I have a more detailed look later on.

# 18 Google Documents

I have included a Powerpoint presentation of the Manukau Libraries for everyone to check out.


Example of document which I prepared earlier can be found at google documents

I have also downloaded a Powerpoint presentation but this has failed to load, maybe I'll have to redo it. However it takes quite a long time to upload.

Had a look at Zoho Writer and it basically works the same as google docs.

#16 (Week 6) Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

During my visit to Adelaide noticed that they had a blog on their website as it was advertised and displayed very prominantly and beautifully in the library. When checking the Adelaide library website, it was set up very nicely and very informative. Check out the blog ie Charlotte's blog. Also has a profile on Facebook where users can search the catalog without leaving Facebook, but this part does not seem to be working well, maybe some refinements to be done to remedy the problems. This seems to be a good example of using Web 2.0 in Library 2.0
The website also has information about the Library Elf on the frontpage.

#17 (Week 7) Social Networking

My daughter has used MySpace when she was on holiday to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Every night she will upload her photos taken during the day and also write about her day on her space and I can look at the photos and read her diary of what she did that day. I found it really good as I get to see the photos as soon as she has uploaded them and I can be updated of her travels and going ons daily.

Seems that Facebook is now being used by many of my daughters' friends and our relatives Facebook seems to have taken over the social networking role for us nowadays.

Lots of students use Bebo and we see them in the library all the time.

#14 (Week 6) Tagging, folksonomies & social bookmarking on Del.icio.us

I have signed up on social bookmarking website and my url is http://delicious.com/pustaka. This means that I can access my bookmarks not only at home but on any computer, this is very useful and eliminates the need to remember all the addresses of the blogs and websites that I like to peruse.

#13 (Week 5) Learning 2.0 sandbox wiki

I have looked at the pbwiki and added my blog to the list of favourite blogs and also included a picture of my favourite chinesefood.

#11 (Week 4) Nokia N95 8GB

Have been looking at the Nokia N95 8GB, specifications very impressive :-
Satellite Navigation with Built-in GPS
8GB internal flash memory
5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
3.5G device featuring wireless LAN technology, quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) and WCDMA
Record DVD-like quality video at up to 30 frames per second
Integrated wireless LAN (802.11 b/g)
Digital music player - supports MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA/M4A
Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology v.2.0 EDR
Maybe my next phone could be it. Would be so good. Most impressed with the 5 megapixel camera.

Week 5 - Wikis

Whenever I google something I'm not familiar with, I can usually find a good explanation on wikipedia. It contains information anyone can edit or contribute, all information has to be referenced or they will be removed. However not all information on the intenet is accurate.

A website which I found very useful is http://www.howstuffworks.com/. Do have a look at this website, search for blogging and the explanations on this website is set out simple and easy to understand.

Fish Spa

During the 2nd Term school holidays on the trip to Malaysia, I had the opportunity of getting a fish spa. The little fishes are eating the dead skin on my feet and it feels really nice. Never had so many photos been taken of my feet :) Paid M$30 (NZ$12) for 15 mins, was well worth it.

Back from Adelaide

Just come back from Adelaide and where does a librarian go to visit? The local libraries of course. Also used the internet to check and send emails. The Pharos system is used there too.

RSS

Do check out RSS feeds


http://www.bloglines.com/public/pustaka and also librarything http://www.librarything.com/home/pustaka .




Week 2 and 3 has been quite tough. Phew!!!!!!!

Jigsaw and Coffee Break

Also got my chinese surname as shown below

Pustaka NZ

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