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SPL 2.0 # 1
Wednesday, February 11, 2009. 1 Discovery Has Never Been So Much Fun! SPL 20- or 27 Things- aims to make learning about emerging technologies fun. What other staff training encourages you to blog about your experiences, send twitter updates, and just play.all while at work? There will be prizes. Join the program, learn a lot, and have some fun while you're at it. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, this website will highlight “ 27 Things. Posted by SPL 2.0. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About SPL 2.0.
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SPL 2.0 # 10
Tuesday, March 24, 2009. 10 Play Around with Image Generators. Listen to the podcast! I hope so because it's your time to shine! Thing #10 is going to introduce you to a variety of fun and free online image generators that allow you to easily manipulate graphics, photos, and text to create fun images like these:. As always, if you have any difficulties, ask a friend for help! Find some others by searching Google for image generators, text generators, etc. Now take a little time and have a lot of fun!
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SPL 2.0 # 11
Wednesday, March 25, 2009. 11 A thing about LibraryThing. Do you love books? Working in a library, there's a good chance you do. And, like me, you probably appreciate a sense of order to your world. Regardless, though, unless you're a professional cataloger, you probably think the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and the Dewey Decimal System are pretty arcane. When was the last time someone asked you for the books on "celestial mechanics" or "fossil cold-blooded vertebrates"? Just might be for you!
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SPL 2.0 # 12
Monday, March 30, 2009. 12 Roll Your Own! Listen to the podcast! Do you have a group of websites that are your favorites? Or a set of online resources that are similar that you frequently use to answer homework or reference questions? May be the tool for you. Rollyo allows you to create your own search tool for only the websites you know and trust. Take a look at some of these searchrolls that have already been created:. Ask Mr. Fix-it! Books in a Series. Explore other rolls here. Posted by SPL 2.0.
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SPL 2.0 # 13
Friday, March 6, 2009. 13 Tagging, Folksomonies and Social Bookmarking in Delicious. In the past few weeks, we’ve already explored a few sites – Flickr and LibraryThing to name two – that allow users to take advantage of tagging. In week 3, many even used a common tag to create an association between photos that we individually uploaded. This week, let's take a look at the popular social bookmarking site called Delicious. Delicious. I don't know about you but the name makes me hungry! If you’re up ...
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SPL 2.0 # 14
Friday, March 6, 2009. 14 Technorati – For the Technically Unsavvy. So now that you’ve been blogging for awhile, you might be wondering just how big the blogosphere is. Well, according to Technorati. The leading search tool and authority for blogs, the number of blogs doubles just about every 6 months with over 51 million blogs currently being tracked by the site. This is easy, too. All you need to do is add a little bit of HTML code to the bottom of your post (see my example below) and Technorati wi...
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SPL 2.0 # 15
Friday, March 6, 2009. 15 Library 2.0, Wait, Wait – I'm still on 1.5. OCLC Next Space Newsletter. 8211; Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web take libraries? Into a new world of librarianship. To more powerful ways to cooperate. To a temporary place. Wikipedia – Library 2.0. Library 2.0 Discussions. Read two or three of the perspectives on Library 2.0 from the list above. Posted by SPL 2.0. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About SPL 2.0.
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SPL 2.0 # 16
Saturday, February 28, 2009. 16 Learn About Wikis. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them. So what's a wiki? A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia. Time for a field trip! This week's session is being held at the SPL-Learning Wiki. So hop on over there to begin! Posted by SPL 2.0. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About SPL 2.0.
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SPL 2.0 # 17
Saturday, February 28, 2009. 17 Add an entry to the SPL-Learning Wiki. Sandbox" is a term used to describe the area of a website that should be used for pure play. For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set up a wiki page that’s for nothing but play! For this “explore-and-play-with-wikis” exercise, you are asked to add an entry or two to the SPL-Learning Wiki Sandbox. Page, and add your blog to the Staff Blogs. It's another field trip! Page for the lesson and Discovery Exercises.
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SPL 2.0 # 2
Wednesday, February 11, 2009. 2 Lifelong Learning and L2. Are you a Lifelong Learner? Would you like to become one? Before we embark on this new online learning and discovery journey take a few minutes to review some habits that can assist in creating lifelong learners. These habits, which have been called the Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners. Will provide you with a refresher on what it means to be a lifelong learner. 2 Open up the 7 and 1/2 Habits online tutorial.
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Sachem Public Library
Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Congratulating our budding bloggers. Since the last posting on this blog a number of our staff members here at the Sachem Public Library have gone ahead and created their own blogs. Some of our departments have begun informational blogs to supplement department meetings as well. It may be that some of us have found a niche that fills a "publishing" desire. In any case, they are all interesting and well done! Posted by Sachem Public Library. Labels: Sachem Public Library. Please ...
