Final Post

I really enjoyed this program, and would recomend others do it. Initially I thought it was quite difficult but once you are aware of the basics it is actually really easy, and fun! The things I learnt proboble wont help me directly in my role, but provided me with some usefull tools to use should I work/fill in in another department. The go animate exercise was probably the most fun, however the author and book sites and activities were probably the most usefull. I would liek to thank the admin team who have been commenting on my blog, and helping me through each exercise. Thanks!!!

Social Sites

I looked at dig and reddit, and choose dig to sign up with. I though it was a much better designed website, and the information wasn't too overloaded. Allthough it did have advertising, where as reddit did not, it was still much easier to navigate and find discussions of interest. There were a number of discussions that I comenented on- some of my fav's were Top lookalikes for sports and celebrities' where people posted pics of sports stars who looked like celebrities. I also looked at one abou the Italian Soccer team all having the same last name, De Feo. It seems like there are actually some interesting discussions and quite a communal vibe to this site, which I think is lacking in a number of other socail sites.

Go Animate

I can see how the go Animate site could be a lot of fun and an excellent procrastiation tool. I really liked thepre set characters and scenes they had, but thought it was great that you could upload your own. It did take quite a while to make my animation though, so I had to rush through and didn't have time to get to creative, but some of the others I looked at were great.
The library ones were also good, and i can see how it could be a usefull learning tool for kids learning how librarys works etc, or a bit of fun for everyone really.

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Animoto

I can see how this site would be an excellent procrastination tool. Its fun, and easy, and much quicker then making your own animation video (which is actually just a slideshow..of sorts... with music....). I'm not sure though how usefull this tool would be to our library. It could be incorporated into some of the photography clasees, or online/web training courses we offer, and i imagine it could be something that would be popular with teenagers, who may want to post things on their clogs or social networking sites. The Animoto sight is very userfriendly, and anyone who can use a computer can do it.

Bookjetty

The best thing about Bookjetty is that you can search over 300 library catalogues., which i can imagine would be helpfull when trying to track down an item, and reserving it via bookjetty is great, allthough I'm not sure how that works. I did find this weeks exercises usefull, not something I would use myself but something I could recomend to patrons.

The Book Report Network

I liked 'The Book Reporter Netowrk' the best out of all the author directories I looked at. The site was by far the easiest to navigate, and had a number of other directories linked. It seemed like it might not have been as comprehensive as some of the others, though I still prefer it because of the layout.