Sunday, February 7, 2010
Videos Online
Flip Video Camera’s have made uploading into YouTube so easy. kickyoutube site is an easy way to download youtube videos. Teachertube was also a useful site. Another library has uploaded instructions on how to present email training sessions for beginners and a look at some of the images in Picture Ipswich. I tried Dailymotion, and Vimeo and found they both need users to be registered before uploading.
I then played around with YouTube and Google Video and searched for “Queensland dust storms”Searching for and playing the video of: Staff Training : Indigenous Knowledge Centre (IKC) administrators came together in Cairns, Australia to share their experiences and learn new skills, was informative and interesting.
Ma searched for Bull Mastiff videos to upload and found a good one on doing doggy tricks:
I then played around with YouTube and Google Video and searched for “Queensland dust storms”Searching for and playing the video of: Staff Training : Indigenous Knowledge Centre (IKC) administrators came together in Cairns, Australia to share their experiences and learn new skills, was informative and interesting.
Ma searched for Bull Mastiff videos to upload and found a good one on doing doggy tricks:
More Google
Google translate will convert the entire webpage or selected text into your specified language. I use it regularly for translating Foreign Language cataloguing information eg book titles, authors, publishers etc. Students use it to convert English to a LOTE subject they’re studying. The conversion isn’t always 100% accurate and sometimes only gives a rough example.
I was delighted with the results of searches in google books. Searching for my old childhood favourite author L M Montgomery brought back many happy memories.
I enjoyed playing with igoogle and had created my own igoogle homepage during previous SLQ technology training. I found it to have regular, current and correct updates of weather, local, national and international news and other added features. The animated frog image was a hit with everyone who viewed the page.
Google maps is handy as a training source. I use it to create my own personalised maps, add local businesses and friends homes to the map, to create and add reviews to locations.
Google calendar could be used on a library homepage for patrons to see all the upcoming events in the library
I was delighted with the results of searches in google books. Searching for my old childhood favourite author L M Montgomery brought back many happy memories.
I enjoyed playing with igoogle and had created my own igoogle homepage during previous SLQ technology training. I found it to have regular, current and correct updates of weather, local, national and international news and other added features. The animated frog image was a hit with everyone who viewed the page.
Google maps is handy as a training source. I use it to create my own personalised maps, add local businesses and friends homes to the map, to create and add reviews to locations.
Google calendar could be used on a library homepage for patrons to see all the upcoming events in the library
Web Browsers
Ma has been at it again, learning all about Web Browsers this time and these are her notes:
The video "What is a web browser" would be very useful for beginner internet class. The most popular browsers are Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera. Smartphones and PDA’s use web browsers specially designed for them. Google Chrome is a very fast browser, easy to navigate and very useful for downloading large files. The Google Chrome release notes , in the left directory, is a very useful source for current Google Chrome information.
Mozilla Firefox has lots of options for the Fashion Your Firefox list, I’d find this useful in most library environments.
Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari are free to download. Some of the impressive features on Firefox are location aware browsing, zoom settings and add ons.
Popular mobile browsers are iPhone’s Mobile Safari, Palm Pre’s WebOS, Opera Mini 5, Google’s Android mobile OS and Blackberry Storm.
I enjoyed Brian Tong from Cnet’s video on comparing browsers and iphones display of a web browser is useful for people who don’t have access to an internet computer.
The video "What is a web browser" would be very useful for beginner internet class. The most popular browsers are Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera. Smartphones and PDA’s use web browsers specially designed for them. Google Chrome is a very fast browser, easy to navigate and very useful for downloading large files. The Google Chrome release notes , in the left directory, is a very useful source for current Google Chrome information.
Mozilla Firefox has lots of options for the Fashion Your Firefox list, I’d find this useful in most library environments.
Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari are free to download. Some of the impressive features on Firefox are location aware browsing, zoom settings and add ons.
Popular mobile browsers are iPhone’s Mobile Safari, Palm Pre’s WebOS, Opera Mini 5, Google’s Android mobile OS and Blackberry Storm.
I enjoyed Brian Tong from Cnet’s video on comparing browsers and iphones display of a web browser is useful for people who don’t have access to an internet computer.
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