Week 8 MLA Web 2.0

Well I made it to the final week--just under the wire.

The mash-up I took a look at was Health Map--a site that brings together a number of different sources to give you an over view of infectious disease around the world. I think this could be a great site to use it my day to day operations--I am often asked to find information about the global view of a particular disease. It will aften take me days to get to a variety of different sources to pull this information together. What a time saver!

I took a look at rollo and didn't quite get the concept. I think I will need to revist this one at a later date.

Week 7 MLA 2.0

Write a blog entry discussing how you felt about the experience of using YouTube and what you think about this service. Do you see any potential uses for Podcasting in the library? If so what and why?

I think both of these technologies could easliy be used for orientation or for teaching purposes. Currently we have software that allows us to create what we call 5 minutes exercises that taech users some aspect of using the library or other technology that they are required to us. These e-learning pieces are only availbale at work. To be able to offer these sessions no matter where the users were would be a great advantages. The thing that we will need to do in the future will be to convince our IT department to allow access to these technologies which they currently do not.

Week 6 MLA Web 2.0

Well this was a pretty easy week. I have had some experience with Flickr in the past but it was a nice refresher. Thanks.