Things 16-17 - Join Facebook, add Facebook friends

Facebook

I've had a FB account since the last 23 things. I don't have a lot of friends but a respectable number. Call me antisocial but it really doesn't do much for me. Perhaps I'm just not that interested in what others are doing. And as for being sent stuff - good grief!

It would however make a great sociology thesis.

Thing 10: PBwiki

I must admit I really do like PBWiki - they seem to have created an interface that is quite intuitive. Nice. I am also a fan of the Google doc but can see how the whole Wiki file folder functionality might be super essential sometime soon.

Also the whole inserting - uploading image thing seems to just work ... or perhaps I'm learning something and there is a bit of generalization.














By the way here is a learning point - if you keep doing something over and over again - like inserting images into your posts it becomes second nature and sort of easy. Repetition lessons should be often repeated!

Thing 14 - Flickr

Here's a question. How many of our library web pages use images? Not counting the banner my guess would be about 1% if that. Put another way what is the proportion of text to image? Very low? Why?

Now don't get me wrong love images and taking photos and would rather show a series of images as a user education exercise that show a single word or even speak. But...

Perhaps they serve another purpose. Perhaps they fulfill a social need.

Here's a photo I uploaded to Flickr and then put some notes on - which i think could actually be instructive.

Parliamentary Debates Western Australian Hansard

Thing 15 - Image generators

I have a problem with image generators. I don't like them. It's as simple as that.

But here's an image that was generated.



Wow that was actually a lot of fun.

Now I love image generators!!!!

Thing 12 Delicious

It appears that last year I was interested in alien abduction and dioramas. Well some things just don't change do they? Looks like I never really got ito the whole delicious thing. Although the tags - favourites - book marks - all in one place and accessible would be good - perhaps I will explore more later - until then away!

Thing 11 Tagging Socially and otherwise

In our catalogue the subject heading for PTSD is Post-traumatic stress disorder

Really I must stop using acronyms. OK? Perhaps we could add to our synonym list or have a see also. But realy where would this all end up?

I even found Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies [electronic resource] no subject heading - ebook - record - nasty

Here's a question - how would you create a delicious page for a Murdoch University Unit - the answer is no doubt easy - has it been done though and did any students use it? Or does it need to be more social than that?

Google - well whilst that which is familiar is often despised (source unkown) it does let you work fast and develop skill - it also let me restrict my search to title only and geographic area - which i doubt the others do - correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes there is many ways to do the same thing differently - actually what I would like is the usber application called "Integrates everything"

Zuula - now I'm not a fan of federated searching but this was kind of slick - domains and sources for easy comparison - demonstrated marked differnces in what was indexed.

Kartoo - errh no ... but I can think of some apropriate reverse alliterations ... some funny .... but all unflattering. Not that I hate visual representation of information. For a time I was a big fan of the Plumb Visual Thesaurus, until it went commercial. Now called Visual Thesaurus

You know web searching is addictive and its going to be hard to get off Google.

Thing 8 Zotero and LibX

I did quite like this in the LibX tool bar that allowed higlight - drag and drop onto a Google scholar button




Zotero
Well having had a bit of a play around with it, it seems to do a lot of things. Without a bit more time to test them out it's hard to say whether the things are being done well or not.

Would students use it? Would you promote it as an alternative to EndNote? I imagine with time and skill it could be very handy if it wasn't locked to one PC.

Here's what happens when you just don't get it all a searh for

Actually what I'd really like if something that stopped me navigating away from pages tabs that I really want to keep open - sort of a lock tab function.

Also I would like a permanent notepad - I use notepad for lots of bits of text but I'm sure there is better.

Gosh this post is a really dog's breakfast. But that's want you get for being interrrupted!

Thing 13 Insert an image in your Blog (in Blogger)

If I wanted to insert an image this is the icon to look for!!!

Thing 7 - cosmetic surgery for web browsers

I add a theme

"I had a dream that one day web browsers will live in a Googleverse where they will not be judged by the color of their theme but by the character of their content". (apologies to MLK)









I add an extension
I discover the Hammer time web page down load stopper - it stops webpages with "hammer time (audio)"..... but I think you need a bit of time to find something that might be useful.









I add the 23 things toolbar from
Yes this is nice - and I mistakenly installed it on IE as well. Ooops

Thing 6 - Subscribing to feeds

Thing 6 - Subscribing to feeds

Gosh it turned out I had done this one in 2007 and haven't looked at it since. That is probably a common occurence. If something is in my inbox I will pay attention to it, unless it sneaks really far down the list.

Any way one RSS feed I subscribed to was to an Australian journal called Behaviour Change. I particulary liked the title of this article

A Preliminary Investigation of the Efficacy of Disgust Exposure Techniques in a Subclinical Population With Blood and Injection Fears

Nice!

I'm afraid RSS feeds still don't do a lot for me.

Thing13 - the unlucky thing - uploading an image

This is simply a test of Thing 13 - uploading an image.

Here we go uploading now

From the Ronald Wilson display.

Now that seemed much simpler than doing it in WordPress which didn't seem to have a browse function ......hmmmm

On talking to AH and AT it appears we have to add media first - which allows for upload and insertion.



And follow the steps.

Nice!

Thing 9

Google docs

I used Google docs to have a single document to work on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Display

Getting the other collaborators to use it was the main issue.

One feature that is really useful is the Table of Contents - apply heading formatting to your sections and it generates a nice TOC - good for long docum

One problem did seem to be getting some people onto the list

Here is a screen shot of how that looks image by Snagit

Thing 2

Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners.


Goal
Finish the 23 things
Find ways to apply the tools to actual projects

Hardest habit
Not starting
Not seeing problems as problems

Easiest habit
Mentoring others - was that a habit?

You don't want to be in a hurry when you're learing to use an angle grinder (or chain saw)

Welcome to the 23 Things 2008

I am stuck for words.