CCL Workshop on New Technologies

Eileen O’Shea/Infopeople
Preliminary Notes on the CCL Workshop on Web 2.0: It’s all about Social Networking

Powerpoint and glossary available on the Infopeople blog…free to share and use!

Eileen shared an awesome video called Digital Ethnology …well worth watching and sharing with your staff, colleagues, and campuses…

Definition of Web 2.0 and the concepts that “The Web is Us!”

Blogging……Eileen took us through Blogs which are CMS (content management systems) based…Demonstrated Moveable Type as well as Blogger
http://waynnandholly.blogspot.com
• Check out “jolts of Creativity” CHECK IT OUT
• La Guardia Community College website
• Infopeople blog
• Check Pasadena City College and Shatford Library on Bloglines

Wikis…community editing tool (assume the world is going to edit it)
• Look at California State Library as an example
• Infopeople’s “Moving libraries forward to Web 2.0”
• ALA wikis
• Internet Librarian wiki 2005

Photosharing…Merced College Library on Flickr
• Ask Roger to create a Flickr account for Shatford Library
• Library orientation photos
• To do…link photos in flickr to blog

Video Sharing…
• Stumblevideo…aggregator of videos; rateable CHECK IT OUT
• UTube…create an account and get a Utube page…bookmark and save library videos (can’t be longer than 10 minutes; can’t be more than 100 mg
• Check out Utube for Library videos

Social Bookmarking
• Delicious, Digg, Cluztr, StumbeUpon CHECK IT OUT
• Great for Library instruction
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Other notes:
Download Firefox browser since it integrates Web 2.0 so beautifully into the tool bars
Personalize Google page


Keeping track of all this stuff:
• RSS
• Creative commons license “share and share alike” i.e. use our materials but give us credit
• ChartURL CHECK IT OUT
• Rollyo… CHECK IT OUT

Podcasts
• Hipcast or Gabcast—check it out! Talk into a phone and it creates a podcast that can be linked to a blog CHECK IT OUT

Vodcasts
• Rocketboom (daily video of the news of the day) CHECK IT OUT