What is a Podcast?
Rhode,J (2007), What is a Podcast? a brief introduction, viewed on September 3 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQFKNcdCdLM
I found this YouTube video really helpful to explain what a Podcast is and how it works. It may go into a little more detail than you may need, but I found it great.
If you go to the Denver Public Library Podcasts site you have access to numerous different Podcasts. On the right hand side there are some links to their Podcasts based on category. They are; Nursery Rhymes, Interviews, Song, Beatrix Potter, Folk and Fairytales, Storytime Favourites, Folktales, News and lastly General.
It is a further example of how a library can come into your own home.
Universities also make use of Podcasts for tutorials.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Online Bookmarks?????
Continuing on with talk about bookmarks. We all know that it is handy to use a bookmark when reading a book. Using a bookmark means that we can go straight to the page we were up to without having to read through bits to find that page. Now it is essentially the same with online bookmarks. When browsing online on your own computer you may regularly like to store the details of this page or website. You will usually do this by clicking on an "add bookmark" button or clicking on the "add to favourites" icon. It really depends on what search engine and preferences you have on your computer as to what appears.
This will enable you to go directly to the webpage and not have to do an internet search again, or type in the address which you may have had to take the time to write out. The main problems with having to do a manual retrieval is that you may not have written down the web address correctly, which is quite easy to do given that some web pages have a long URL, or the search details that you put in may not be exactly the same as you used last time therefore bringing up a different set of results to go through.
So this brings us to the timesaver of making an "online bookmark". This is going to work wonders for you, it will save you time and you will be able to access sites at the click of a mouse. But Uh Oh, what happens when you are not at your regular computer????? Well you don't have access to your bookmarks/favourites. But before you have a melt down about how something useful has just become completely unhelpful check out this link http://www.delicious.com/.
Delicious is an online bookmark/favourite storage database. What you do is sign up for an account, it's FREE, and then start adding your web addresses. You can do this as easy as copy/paste. To make it possible to search your favourites, you add tags to each web address. It will automatically give you some to start off with as you are entering it into your database. For instance if I have a book website entered I can tag it with books, and children because it is a based on childrens books. Then I can add a website for craft, and add the tags craft and children as it has school holiday activities, which I can also make a tag for. When I want to search for something for my children and I know that I possibly have some websites stored that might be suitable, I can do a search for children and all of the websites that I have tagged with children will pop up, making it a huge timesaver for me.
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking.
So you can go to delicious and search through peoples bookmarks for suitable websites or you can just store your own.
This means that by changing computers you do not have to loose access to all of your favourite sites. Wherever you have access to the web, you can just type in http://www.delicious.com/ and then enter your user name and password and gain access to your bookmarks/favourites.
This site is really helpful and well worth looking at and signing up for an account. It truly is DELICIOUS ; )
This will enable you to go directly to the webpage and not have to do an internet search again, or type in the address which you may have had to take the time to write out. The main problems with having to do a manual retrieval is that you may not have written down the web address correctly, which is quite easy to do given that some web pages have a long URL, or the search details that you put in may not be exactly the same as you used last time therefore bringing up a different set of results to go through.
So this brings us to the timesaver of making an "online bookmark". This is going to work wonders for you, it will save you time and you will be able to access sites at the click of a mouse. But Uh Oh, what happens when you are not at your regular computer????? Well you don't have access to your bookmarks/favourites. But before you have a melt down about how something useful has just become completely unhelpful check out this link http://www.delicious.com/.
Delicious is an online bookmark/favourite storage database. What you do is sign up for an account, it's FREE, and then start adding your web addresses. You can do this as easy as copy/paste. To make it possible to search your favourites, you add tags to each web address. It will automatically give you some to start off with as you are entering it into your database. For instance if I have a book website entered I can tag it with books, and children because it is a based on childrens books. Then I can add a website for craft, and add the tags craft and children as it has school holiday activities, which I can also make a tag for. When I want to search for something for my children and I know that I possibly have some websites stored that might be suitable, I can do a search for children and all of the websites that I have tagged with children will pop up, making it a huge timesaver for me.
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking.
So you can go to delicious and search through peoples bookmarks for suitable websites or you can just store your own.
This means that by changing computers you do not have to loose access to all of your favourite sites. Wherever you have access to the web, you can just type in http://www.delicious.com/ and then enter your user name and password and gain access to your bookmarks/favourites.
This site is really helpful and well worth looking at and signing up for an account. It truly is DELICIOUS ; )
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