Finally, the journey is over. In my opinion, I can learn a lot of thing from these Web 2.0 tools. However, the Web 2.0 is still moving forward. We need to learn as much as possible to stay current with the technology. It is not only to learn more but also to choose what we librarians should learn. It is impossible to learn all the Web 2.0 tools, not to mention there will be always another new tool releasing. Therefore, librarians have to find out what is the suitable supplement to library.
However, technology is always the supplements of library. As librarian became more and more specializing, it is necessary to cultivate suitable technology instinct to know what is necessary to their specialization.
2010年11月11日 星期四
Exercise No. 22 Discovering Web 2.0 tools
In this section, I choose Last.com. It is a powerful online database to search music. After subscribe it, you can access to almost what you want to listen immediately. It includes a lot of albums, radio and so forth. For the most important, it supports the Chinese version despite in simplified Chinese. Besides, ti renders a lot of description of the work which can enhance your understanding of music. It also connect to Amazon that you can buy if you appreciate it. In brief, it is a website which not only render knowledge but also entertainment.
Exercise No. 21 Library 2.0
In my viewpoint, library 2.0 is to rethink what can librarian do in the future. As we knew that conventional library operation will be replace by new thoughts because of changing of mind, what we librarian can do in the future. We are not only to preserve, collect books but also to form new view to constitute the librarian. How could we deal with information overload? How could we do for our patron in a different way? The answer will be library 2.0. As we move forward, we need to know how to deal with above-mentioned question. We can't hide in the staff without thinking about this question anymore. As John. J. Riemer and Rick Anderson mentioned, Library 2.0 is correlated with Web 2.0. As the Internet became essential part of library and library are forced to offer more service from these Web 2.0 tools, librarians have to face this circumstance no matter which position you are in.
Exercise No. 20 Zotero
For me, Zotero is something very convenient for doing research. As I search something in the online database, I can download the information from it. Therefore, I won't be necessary to bring the article with me all the time. What I will do is to extract my file from Zotero database . All in all, it is a useful tool to do research. The following is my library.
Exercise No. 19 Rollyo
To me, it is the first time to know about Rollyo. It is quite useful tool to build up a unique search. However, it takes time to choose what you want to include in your search engine. Besides, you need to understand well about the website you selected in your search. Otherwise, it just like you select several website and put into a virtual searching engine. In my opinion, it is merely put a infant searching engine for what you selected.
The following is my searching engine
The following is my searching engine
Exercise No. 18 Library thing
It is until now that I encounter a tool which is useful to catalog in the 23 things. Library thing is an online selection tool for books. If you check for book in English, it is quite powerful. However, if you want to find other language such as book in Chinese, it is hard to do that. I have to find the translation format of the book. Therefore, compared with Worldcat , it seems not as powerful as it expected because Worldcat supports the chinese version.
However, excerpt the language barrier, library thing is powerful. You can check out almost every book in English. The follwoing is my collection list.
Exercise No. 17 Google tools
Google is not only a good searching engine but also a good online tool provider. To me, the most useful is Google scholar. Although compared with online Database such as H.W Wilson or so forth, Google scholar is relatively less powerful. However, as a free database to search scholar article, it is a good option to try those search when you don't have access to those subscription online database.
Google earth is another cool thing. By that, you can access almost every part of our world, even the front yard of my home. As you can access to the Internet, ti is available to have those through Google.
In short, what Google tool did has enormously outweigh our imagination and it is possible that there will be another new tool to use in the future.
Google earth is another cool thing. By that, you can access almost every part of our world, even the front yard of my home. As you can access to the Internet, ti is available to have those through Google.
In short, what Google tool did has enormously outweigh our imagination and it is possible that there will be another new tool to use in the future.
Exercise No.16 Google Docs
To most of us, google docs are not something extremely new. I rarely used before because it can't be the same as Microsoft word. However, when you need to preserve or share something like note presentation and so forth, it is a useful tool.
For me, the most useful aspect of google docs is that you can share the file through website without going through hard-drives or flash-drives. When you need other's note about a class, it is easy to get it through google docs. Just click on share, you can get what you need effortless.
Google docs is quite a powerful tool despite that it can't be the same as Microsoft word.
For me, the most useful aspect of google docs is that you can share the file through website without going through hard-drives or flash-drives. When you need other's note about a class, it is easy to get it through google docs. Just click on share, you can get what you need effortless.
Google docs is quite a powerful tool despite that it can't be the same as Microsoft word.
Exercise No. 15 Wiki
For our generation. wiki is already familiar for most of us. However, because of the quality problem, people are always doubtful of Wikipedia. To me, it is a good place to start out finding or knowing something you want, but only limited to the first step. You need further search to check the fidelity of it.
Nevertheless, the wiki for library is quite useful. For example, Book Lovers Wiki is a good choice to find the commentary of the book you want to search. The permission for access to edit website is a very good idea. It could prevent the problem of giving access to people without enough knowledge to edit the website. There is also a lot of Library wiki available in the website. However, the credibility is still questionable.
In short, library wiki is a good place to know about books, especially when you need to find what others think about something.
Nevertheless, the wiki for library is quite useful. For example, Book Lovers Wiki is a good choice to find the commentary of the book you want to search. The permission for access to edit website is a very good idea. It could prevent the problem of giving access to people without enough knowledge to edit the website. There is also a lot of Library wiki available in the website. However, the credibility is still questionable.
In short, library wiki is a good place to know about books, especially when you need to find what others think about something.
Exercise No. 14 Technorati
For me. Technorati is a good website to search RSS feeds. However, if it comes to find the blog, it seems limited to that aspects. As we try the search of learning 2.0, the difference between searching blog and post is huge. You can get a lot of searching outcome form searching posts. However, almost all of them are irrelevant. The blog searching is more associated with the title. However, only one searching result is found.
To the Top 100 blogs, those are interesting. Daily finance and Naked Capitalism are two of my favorites. There is a lot website which is worth to search in this list. However, excerpt this list, Technorati didn't render as many useful aspects as I expected.
In short, it is a website which is worth to use. However, it might be a disappointing website when you navigate thorough it.
To the Top 100 blogs, those are interesting. Daily finance and Naked Capitalism are two of my favorites. There is a lot website which is worth to search in this list. However, excerpt this list, Technorati didn't render as many useful aspects as I expected.
In short, it is a website which is worth to use. However, it might be a disappointing website when you navigate thorough it.
Exercise No. 13 Del.icio.us
First of all, it is the first time for me to use Delicious. Because I have yahoo. account, so I can access it without any subscription. To me, delicious is kind of material commentary and connection website. You can search a lot of useful website from delicious without navigating through the vast website. It is useful to tag your searching outcome which you think is useful. Therefore, you can create your own website library by Delicious. By cataloging, you can easily access these website without navigate the web.
However, because it is available to general public, the controlling vocabulary it used is defined by the user. Therefore, the controlling vocabulary didn't have universal standard like what LC have. You might get into trouble when searching for something when its controlling vocabulary mistakingly correlated with other thing. Moreover, you can't exclude what you don't need because the searching engine can't do that.
In short, Delicious is a useful. However, it still have difficulty to use as a database.
However, because it is available to general public, the controlling vocabulary it used is defined by the user. Therefore, the controlling vocabulary didn't have universal standard like what LC have. You might get into trouble when searching for something when its controlling vocabulary mistakingly correlated with other thing. Moreover, you can't exclude what you don't need because the searching engine can't do that.
In short, Delicious is a useful. However, it still have difficulty to use as a database.
2010年10月28日 星期四
Exercise No. 12 Finding new feeds
Searching RSS feeds is a little bit different. In my opinion, to search the feeds effectively is to go to the main website. For example, New York times main page or U.S.A today. It will bring you a lot of things you need. For example, if you put the RSS feeds of CNN.com, it will bring out a lot of daily news to you through google reader. However, it will be a little bit difficulty to find a certain thing you need to read. In this aspect, using the RSS feeds searching engine might be a little bit helpful.
The searching engine I used here are Topix.net, Technorati and Syndic8.com. For Topix.net, it is a little bit difficult to navigate through because it is too blurry. A lot of advertisement there and didn't bring a distinct link to rss feeds. Technorati is a little bit similar. However, Technorati is good at searching the blog article. Spending a little time, you will find some excellent blog about the topic you want. Syndic8. com is very clear. Just put your topic, than you can get a lot of outcome for what you want to read. In short, I personally prefer Syndic8.com because it is compact and clear.
I personally think that RSS feed is a subscription service; therefore, the most useful searching way is to use categoric searching. As you find your subject, it is easy to get what you want.
2010年10月26日 星期二
Exercise No. 11 RSS & newsreader
Before I finish this assignment, I knew nothing a bout RSS and newsreader and I always confused about the icon in the blog which I always read through. However, after I finish this section, I found that RSS and newsreader are very powerful tool to read through website effectively and effortlessly.
For the most important, it takes less time to navigate the website, especially blogs. Before I use RSS, I had to navigate the website by click each one and open every page which it embedded. By using newsreader, I can read all the new article at once and at same page. It greatly reduce the time which I have to spend to navigate it. Secondly, the newsreader can notice you that whether or not there is new article there. You also don't need to wait for the website especially when some websites take a lot time to transmit the data it has. In short, the reading of website and blog become very easy. And you can do it by using any computer. You don't need to take your laptop all the time. In brief, it bridges the website into the newsreader. As you log into google reader, you got it
Exercise No. 10 Librivox
Librivox is an audio books online database. To me, it is similar to Voice of America. However, it is more delicate and elaborate in many aspect. You can find some very important book in our academic study.
Because of my history major, I search for the history catalog. Some of the item makes me excited. For example, The history of the decline and fall of Roman empire, which is written by Edward Gibbon. As a history lover, you can miss this zenith work in the history society. The period of the book starts from 180 to 1590. It illustrates how West and East Roman Empire collapse. When I was a college student, one of my class is the history of Roman Empire. I have to struggle with the a lot of reading especially part of this book. If I have this audio book that time, I probably can read through the article more quickly.
The other is Mary Queen of Scots. This is the topic I have read through during the time I was struggling with my TOFEL IBT test. During that time I read a lot of history about United States and United Kingdom in order to practice English. Things about Queen Mary always makes me curious. In my opinion, it is rare to find a noble to have the same experience as Queen Mary. She divorced four time. She stayed in Scotland only seven years and in England's prison for nineteen years before execution. In my opinion, her life seems like a funny joke. She is a Queen but lives in prison for major part of her life. She never has a entirely controlling power over Scotland. Her life is always kidnapped by other people, for instance, her fourth husband.
All in all, it is a worth searching website. It renders so much useful materials to read.
Because of my history major, I search for the history catalog. Some of the item makes me excited. For example, The history of the decline and fall of Roman empire, which is written by Edward Gibbon. As a history lover, you can miss this zenith work in the history society. The period of the book starts from 180 to 1590. It illustrates how West and East Roman Empire collapse. When I was a college student, one of my class is the history of Roman Empire. I have to struggle with the a lot of reading especially part of this book. If I have this audio book that time, I probably can read through the article more quickly.
The other is Mary Queen of Scots. This is the topic I have read through during the time I was struggling with my TOFEL IBT test. During that time I read a lot of history about United States and United Kingdom in order to practice English. Things about Queen Mary always makes me curious. In my opinion, it is rare to find a noble to have the same experience as Queen Mary. She divorced four time. She stayed in Scotland only seven years and in England's prison for nineteen years before execution. In my opinion, her life seems like a funny joke. She is a Queen but lives in prison for major part of her life. She never has a entirely controlling power over Scotland. Her life is always kidnapped by other people, for instance, her fourth husband.
All in all, it is a worth searching website. It renders so much useful materials to read.
Exercise No. 9 Podcast
Podcast is a kind of web broadcast using a easily disseminating channel to be obtained by the general public. It started from with in no more than a decades. Because of the convenience, it became flourishing during the past five years. Now you can get a lot of audio materials through Internet. Moreover, you can access to materials from your cell phone.
At the beginning, I searched the Podcast alley. I am not assure but that the podcast rendered in this website can be easily download through Juice, a software that this website recommend to get this podcast. I found an interesting podcast about Irish and Celtic music Podcast. It updates bi-monthly. The main speaker is Marc Gunn. The content is much fantastic. As you know from the topic, it provide a lot of "interesting" music from Irish culture. Some instrument like Bagpipe will be heard in this podcast. And, in my humble opinion, some other "weired' singer. The music genre here is much more unconventional, nonacademic, folklore and a little bit isolated taste.
Subsequently, I searched the Podcast.com. Here the Podcast collection is much more bigger than Podcast alley. You might say that all most every kind of podcast can be seem here. Juice seems not workable in this site. But you still can access online. One of the most interesting thing I found here is the Beethoven symphonies in nine days, which is rendered by the CBC radio 2. It is a elaborate introduction of Beethoven's nine symphonies. The speakers includes Bill Richardson and Bramwell Tovey, music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Tovey demonstrate a lot of details about them by piano. In my opinion, it is worth to listen. The other interesting material I found is the podcast from The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. It seems to be the introduction of libraries service for undergraduate freshman. It includes JHsearch, citation guideline and virtual library service. In my opinion, it portray the general idea of library service.
It is quite funny to learn Podcast here. Because it is not flourishing in Chinese world,only a few will use it in Taiwan. However, I can still find some interesting thing there.
At the beginning, I searched the Podcast alley. I am not assure but that the podcast rendered in this website can be easily download through Juice, a software that this website recommend to get this podcast. I found an interesting podcast about Irish and Celtic music Podcast. It updates bi-monthly. The main speaker is Marc Gunn. The content is much fantastic. As you know from the topic, it provide a lot of "interesting" music from Irish culture. Some instrument like Bagpipe will be heard in this podcast. And, in my humble opinion, some other "weired' singer. The music genre here is much more unconventional, nonacademic, folklore and a little bit isolated taste.
Subsequently, I searched the Podcast.com. Here the Podcast collection is much more bigger than Podcast alley. You might say that all most every kind of podcast can be seem here. Juice seems not workable in this site. But you still can access online. One of the most interesting thing I found here is the Beethoven symphonies in nine days, which is rendered by the CBC radio 2. It is a elaborate introduction of Beethoven's nine symphonies. The speakers includes Bill Richardson and Bramwell Tovey, music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Tovey demonstrate a lot of details about them by piano. In my opinion, it is worth to listen. The other interesting material I found is the podcast from The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. It seems to be the introduction of libraries service for undergraduate freshman. It includes JHsearch, citation guideline and virtual library service. In my opinion, it portray the general idea of library service.
It is quite funny to learn Podcast here. Because it is not flourishing in Chinese world,only a few will use it in Taiwan. However, I can still find some interesting thing there.
2010年9月30日 星期四
2010年9月23日 星期四
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Fourth movement
It is the most exciting part and the conductor and the orchestra almost close to nuts
2010年9月15日 星期三
Something about 7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits
In my opinion, the most useful content of 7 and 1/2 learning habits is play! Many people won't remember what they learn from school but they will always keep in mind about what they have fun senior high school courses. However, I won't forget the card games from Magic the Gathering. I still remember the rule of games and how I and my friends have a good time about that card game. Learning through play not only makes you devote yourself into the subject, but also gives you the joy about the sublect and the process. That's why many people can focus on something with full strength enthusiastically and tirelessly.
As far as I am concerned, to begin with the end in mind is the most difficult thing through learning. Obviously, when we decide what to learn, it will be a struggling process especially when you only have blurry understanding about the subject. Usually, you will set up a goal far from your ability to afford it. Peopel always want to gain a lot when there is a chance. However, We are human. We have limited time to study and we need enough time to absorb what we learn and to be familiar about it. Therefore, to carefully choose the study objective is critical to our lifelong learning process. We need to understand a fundamental fact: learning is a process of accumulating, not skyrocketing.
As far as I am concerned, to begin with the end in mind is the most difficult thing through learning. Obviously, when we decide what to learn, it will be a struggling process especially when you only have blurry understanding about the subject. Usually, you will set up a goal far from your ability to afford it. Peopel always want to gain a lot when there is a chance. However, We are human. We have limited time to study and we need enough time to absorb what we learn and to be familiar about it. Therefore, to carefully choose the study objective is critical to our lifelong learning process. We need to understand a fundamental fact: learning is a process of accumulating, not skyrocketing.
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