23 things

Hello Peter and fellow steppers,
this is going to be fun - I'm slightly interested in being one of the 200 first finishers as I'd like to win an mp3 player - too honest...

New job @ skills tas

Hmmm well what a lovely new reason to keep my blog up to date. I've joined the Skills Tas team as a elearning coordinator. One week into it and it's been interesting - never had the blue screen of d.... before but have now!
What's that I always told learners of technolgy - you cant break it! The box was bad - nothin to do with me.
One thing tho - we get comfortable in our SOE - v different in other worksites obviously... steep BUT okay I like challenges :-)

Carn then - can I remember how to blog?

Hi Roger,
Nice to hear from you and welcome to the Polytechnic :-)
I'm actually hoping to leave pretty soon ...
I do have a story to tell but maybe I should wait until an appropriate opportinity.

Why last post?

Maybe I could reivigorate my site!
Let's see what happens - I think I will try and diarise our library changes - we're moving from a TAFE institution to a Polytechnic.
It works in NZ so why not here? I think the user age groups differ significantly. Well we'll see.
Going to send a picture too!

Last post :-(

It's true I've finished the 23 steps, I'm going to miss you! Wonderful learning experience and my hardest of all learning goal of not being able to PLAY has been quashed forever!!!

My favourite tools are igoogle, bloggin, delicious (n tagging) library thing, RSS feeds and the whole darn thing really.

My unexpected outcome was that I didnt want it to end, I havent posted for over a week, as the end was inevitable! Boo hoo

On a positive ending, I can still play and have heard a whisper that there may be similar steps in the not too distant future.

Bye :-)

Getting social with MySpace

I've looked at both Facebook and MySpace and purely because my daughter is with MySpace I have concentrated on this one. For a definition I checked out Wikipedia - pretty much a tool for social networking but as these examples show, can be useful for contacting people and building relationships within a library environment.

Art in the library Australian

Teen zone American

I can imagine us using the tools for sending messages, linking various interest groups via blogs, creating a library profile (about the library and it's people) services, links to interesting places and all the while creating access to library content!

Podcasting

I starting using itunes when I got myself an ipod (to help with bike riding), from the online store I subscribed to some free podcasts, n purchased some songs for around 30c each. I can now listen to music or radio broadcasts from my pc or ipod.

I'm very over my current music on the ipod, and as the itunes library holds many more songs than my ipod can ever hold I can change them around - which I should do now!

For the library exercise I checked out Sirsi dynix , a colleague had shown me some interesting podcasts that she had subscribed to. The site provides a great intro to podcasts.

Personally, not at all interested in knowing how to do my own podcasting BUT never say never, the library website might have a need for it! Here's a 4 step how to guide