LAST POST – COMPLETING YOUR ASSESSMENT

Please refer to all of the completed activities and exercises. Also find my comments on other 2C member's blogs. I also have invited these members - Youngju, Paula and Poppy (teacher).

Blog activity 6 – commenting on other blogs

I just looked at some really nice blogs from my classmembers, and posted comments on them.

Thanks for inviting me

Thanks for inviting me. How are you doing? Your blog looks great. I need to catch up some exercise for my blog. :) thanks.

Investigative Exercise 9 Evaluation

Bega Valley Shire library appears to use no Web 2.0 technology. This may be due to the older age groups, economy and also the rural location.

Investigative Exercise 8 Community Profiles

Bega Valley Shire (2006)
Approximately 31 000 residents. Median age is 45 years. Average income $898 per week. The ancestries are divided by the following : English 39%; Irish 11.3%; Scottish 9.3%; German 4.7%; Dutch 2.2%; and Italian 1.5%.

http://www.begavalley.nsw.gov.au/

Blog activity 7 – comment on your teachers blog

I just posted a comment on the current awareness 2 post on the monitoraccess blog. 
I posted my name and pseudonym as well separately so as not to confuse.

Investigative Exercise 7 Podcats

Heyward Library, "Bendigo Library Audio Tour, March 2009" 

This podcast guides you through the layout of the library and some of the procedures. 

http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/podcasts/

Investigative Exercise 6 Social Bookmarking

The inclusion of reviews are not really necessary. My library does have this feature but many of the books do not have a pre-existing review perhaps it is because people have little time to write reviews. A lot of people also know the book they're looking for in a library and the exploration of the novel is part of the process of reading.

Investigative Exercise 5 Social Networking

I don't think it is a good idea for libraries to participate on a social networking site. Running a library is difficult enough let alone updating everyday.
Facebook is really for social networking. Libraries according to the statistics on "I'll Bet I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Think Libraries Are Important is on Facebook", are reaching many. Quote 'Americans go to school, public and academic libraries nearly three times more often than they go to the movies.'

Blog Activity 4 – changing the arrangement of your blog

Notice that the labels have now been moved from along the top to the right side.

Blog activity 3 – changing the colour of your blog

Check out the new colours. If you noticed, the font is now bluish instead of the former white and a section of the background is now coloured red rather than the previous black.

Blog activity 2 – embedding a video

Investigative Exercise 4 Youtube

Library story time session video on YouTube featuring the "Little dragon" as read by Ben Ngeow. 

It is told in Chinese. The book is a picture book with pop ups and flaps. It is told with actions and noises.