Another Use for RFID

Tracking nuclear materials; article on Wired's website.

More from Flickr

I love the communal environment the web fosters! I rarely see Bizarro anymore, but keeping in touch via her blog made me see that I completely missed the chance to search Flickr for Simpsons images! Look what wonders I might have missed were it not for keeping up with her:

Street art:








Photo by Laughing Squid.


A couple of different people think of the show when they see puffy clouds. Here's one tagged "The Simpsons":








More by this photographer, here.




Simpsons bento box! D'oh.













By Feltcap.






The.barb got crafty:

Week 6: Photo Sharing

Just for fun, here's a slide show called "Signs at NP That Must Be Too Hard to See." If you'd like to leave a comment on a particular picture, go to Flickr and search for the tag "chplearning."



I use Flickr for work in a behind-the-scenes way, like when I share pictures from staff functions with coworkers. I also store images for future use on Flickr because unlike my z drive or desktop, Flickr is always there for me.

The slide show above demonstrates another use. Flickr allows any staff member to share images from last night's pizza and pages or game night or computer class, quickly and easily. Rappahannock Regional and Prince George's County use Flickr this way. Sharing pictures is part of the social networking experience that most young people enjoy: they like to see themseleves online. As you can see from the samples, there is no need to caption pictures with names.

Podcast

Not many folks seem to have clicked over to my podcast page. I ran out of time trying to embed it last week, but it worked this time. Do give last week's a listen (below) or click here to hear about Eragon.

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Simpsonzu

Apparently, this is old news. Artist Nina Matsumoto draws the Simpsons as manga.

Week 5: Podcasting

Application

A fun way for teens to contribute to the library community is through sharing their opinions about what they read. For the video camera-shy, a podcast would be a cool way to participate.

Here's a sample podcast.

Podcasting as a project or program would draw young people because it's fun. We'd be providing them with a skill they could use later, and we'd be fostering creativity and the sense of self-worth kids get when adults show that they value a young person's opinion.


Backstory

It took me a while to get this to work. I need to work on my skills in the area of "read all the directions slowly and carefully." Which is ironic since that is the kind of thing I say weekly to patrons as I help them understand an online application or how to open an email accout.

Then, the staff PC in NP's lab didn't want to "see" one of the programs I needed to make all the technologies to talk to each other, so my dreams of using it as a peaceful recording studio on a Thursday morning were shattered.

I found these podcasting directions that the Web 2.o Committee suggested helpful.

The part about downlading Audacity and the LAME thing for making MP3s was the tricky part.

Many thanks to Deanna for talking me through this bit. Library Robot's blog entry on podcasting helped, too.

Now my desktop is littered with icons for programs, and I can barely remember which I used and which I didn't. . . . Which week do we study productivity??

Literacy

Yet another "read more carefully later" item on literacy from Ypulse. The line that caught my eye?

Digital media can (should?) "move learning from being 'book-centered' to being 'experience-centered,' while improving reading skills"