Hi blog,
Well here I am with the time to have finished test drive 2A and start 2B! a very rare window of time indeed....
PERSONAL
Commoncraft loves this free software "Google docs rock" I can immediately see great potential for the sort of scenario described - where collaboration is necessary - a bit like a wiki. To get people to join in is initially quite an awareness raising and nagging task - as I found out when I created my first wiki for a social group and started persuading techniques to get everyone to participate.
PROFESSIONAL
Issue: security
This is a non issue - only invited participants have access
Summary:
Documents that need collaboration in teamwork are sent for editing to the internet. This replaces the need for many email attacments with the various versians cluttering up an editors inbox.
Instead of attaching a document to an email, the email address is attached to a document. As the document and its versions will be online they can be accessed anywhere, on any computer.
Procedure for Google docs
Easy steps. An account is created on the Google docs homepage. The document is uploaded and created into an online versian. Writers are invited to edit the latest draft by clicking SHARE to get a list of email addresses - Google docs emails these 'COLLABORATORS' who get a link to open the doc and start editing. The last stage is where the editor completes the last draft. All versians are also available.
Not just documents
Spreadsheets and presentations can also be uploaded to Google docs for easy collaboration. Sharing presentations using SLIDESHARE can be done publicly and privately -
PROS
For teamwork in document and presentations this online capacity has provided a perfect opportuniyt for efficient collaboration.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Test drive #6 - Folksonomies & Tagging
Hi blog,
PERSONAL
Well, here's starting the last of part A of Test drive Licence 2 - must be the last person to finish it!
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - Basically it's about developing traditional bookmarks tied to one computer into a method that allows them to be accessed from anywhere.
The term TAGGING means creating a categorisation which allows you, like an unstructured LCSH, to associate keywords with online content like webpages, pictures etc.
Since there are a mind boggling 15 billion web pages the old way of bookmarking them is now obselete - the social bookmarking DOESN'T USE A BROWSER. Instead it uses an SB SITE - del.ic.ious is a popular one.
Common Craft explains the social aspect - the bit they would like the best - to be social and share with colleagues so that everyone can benefit from each other's choice of sites. This sort of networking is essential where professionals need an information network without actually meeting each other.
PROCEDURES
At the social bookmarking site you have chosen it is necessary to add a couple of important buttons to your browser which includes the tag process. Once that is achieved it is a matter of finding bookmarking sites with tags and then be social and share them.
PROS AND CONS
Seems all good. A little effort for a lot of benefit particularly for a specialised professional like a language or TESOL teacher. I found the declicious tasty book marks at the Sutherland Shire library too general and the subject based tag cloud from the National Library to be overwhelmingly huge.Throwing everything in couldn't be a good idea.
However, searching the Cleveland Public Library bookmarks under the nasty subject tag of GRAMMAR I found a brillian site for high school students - nice little interactive site with a growling bear.
Maybe bookmarking does work for public libraries which will always have a vast number of subjects.
Over and out for the last of Test Drive Licence part A.
PERSONAL
Well, here's starting the last of part A of Test drive Licence 2 - must be the last person to finish it!
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - Basically it's about developing traditional bookmarks tied to one computer into a method that allows them to be accessed from anywhere.
The term TAGGING means creating a categorisation which allows you, like an unstructured LCSH, to associate keywords with online content like webpages, pictures etc.
Since there are a mind boggling 15 billion web pages the old way of bookmarking them is now obselete - the social bookmarking DOESN'T USE A BROWSER. Instead it uses an SB SITE - del.ic.ious is a popular one.
Common Craft explains the social aspect - the bit they would like the best - to be social and share with colleagues so that everyone can benefit from each other's choice of sites. This sort of networking is essential where professionals need an information network without actually meeting each other.
PROCEDURES
At the social bookmarking site you have chosen it is necessary to add a couple of important buttons to your browser which includes the tag process. Once that is achieved it is a matter of finding bookmarking sites with tags and then be social and share them.
PROS AND CONS
Seems all good. A little effort for a lot of benefit particularly for a specialised professional like a language or TESOL teacher. I found the declicious tasty book marks at the Sutherland Shire library too general and the subject based tag cloud from the National Library to be overwhelmingly huge.Throwing everything in couldn't be a good idea.
However, searching the Cleveland Public Library bookmarks under the nasty subject tag of GRAMMAR I found a brillian site for high school students - nice little interactive site with a growling bear.
Maybe bookmarking does work for public libraries which will always have a vast number of subjects.
Over and out for the last of Test Drive Licence part A.
RSS feeds
Hi Blog,
PERSONAL
Looking at the SLQ website this morning I noticed that the John Oxley blog has been replaced by a NEWSFEED column - this certainly alerted me to explore the RSS format.
PROFESSIONAL
Heard recently from a public servant friend that her IT dept. didn't like blogs because of some perceived firewall problem. Here at SLQ many blogs are essential to information sharing and the newsfeed supplies the latest news from blogs - for example John Oxley.
When I entered the AT OUR TABLE blog at the SLQ website the RSS feed was clearly positioned at the top right hand side and quaintly called RSS food.
As soon as I entered the newsfeed in the website there was a column headed "Syndicating our headlines" with the following explanation:
The State Library's web feeds are freely available for anyone wishing to display our headlines on their own website. There are no restrictions, but we ask that you display headlines only.
PROS
Obviously newsfeeds are the flavour of the month at SLQ - I think that it is useful to get the latest currnet info. from blogs in one spot instead of having to visit the different blogs.
SLQ is promoting the concept on its website with "Need some help with RSS?" so that the public get immediate and useful awareness training.
FREE NEWSFEED READERS
Not everyone will have a feedreader available on their browser and free downloadable software options can be installed on a p.c.
ok! over and out from newsfeedss/webfeeds/rss format and onto the next new emerged technology.
PERSONAL
Looking at the SLQ website this morning I noticed that the John Oxley blog has been replaced by a NEWSFEED column - this certainly alerted me to explore the RSS format.
PROFESSIONAL
Heard recently from a public servant friend that her IT dept. didn't like blogs because of some perceived firewall problem. Here at SLQ many blogs are essential to information sharing and the newsfeed supplies the latest news from blogs - for example John Oxley.
When I entered the AT OUR TABLE blog at the SLQ website the RSS feed was clearly positioned at the top right hand side and quaintly called RSS food.
As soon as I entered the newsfeed in the website there was a column headed "Syndicating our headlines" with the following explanation:
The State Library's web feeds are freely available for anyone wishing to display our headlines on their own website. There are no restrictions, but we ask that you display headlines only.
PROS
Obviously newsfeeds are the flavour of the month at SLQ - I think that it is useful to get the latest currnet info. from blogs in one spot instead of having to visit the different blogs.
SLQ is promoting the concept on its website with "Need some help with RSS?" so that the public get immediate and useful awareness training.
FREE NEWSFEED READERS
Not everyone will have a feedreader available on their browser and free downloadable software options can be installed on a p.c.
ok! over and out from newsfeedss/webfeeds/rss format and onto the next new emerged technology.
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