I picked a site from the winners list in the Travel category - RealTravel.
This is a travel guide and trip planner based on advice from real travellers.
I chose to explore Melbourne form the Top Cities list under Oceania. I didn't find a lot of the site very informative, in many cases it was light on for content and information relying on input from the same few people.
There was a good link to Booking.com for online hotel reservations with very detailed information on the selected hotel.
Under Things to do I looked at Art & Museums and all I got was more hotel informatiion. Every new page was dominated by hotel info with the thibng you actually wanted tacked on the bottom.
I can't really see any application for this site in a library setting.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Online productivity #18
These online productivity tools are a great idea given their user friendliness in that you don't have to worry about different software versions or file types when you email documents.
The Zoho Writer I found very easy to use, with a basic knowledge of MS Office it all seemed very familiar and everything you needed was on the screen. They ware very handy as it means if you have internet access anywhere, any time you can create documents, access your calender / planner etc. Plus the bonus of being able to share documents and work on documents collaboratively.
A great idea and may well be the death of MS Office.
The Zoho Writer I found very easy to use, with a basic knowledge of MS Office it all seemed very familiar and everything you needed was on the screen. They ware very handy as it means if you have internet access anywhere, any time you can create documents, access your calender / planner etc. Plus the bonus of being able to share documents and work on documents collaboratively.
A great idea and may well be the death of MS Office.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki # 17
This exercise gives you practical experience with adding your comment to a wiki - in my case "Favourite restaurants" plus adding the web address for my blog to the plcmc learning wiki.
Again gives you an insight into the masses amount of information available on wikis and the huge variety of topics, common and obscure, you can find information on or contribute information to.
Again gives you an insight into the masses amount of information available on wikis and the huge variety of topics, common and obscure, you can find information on or contribute information to.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Wikis # 16
Wikis harness collective intelligence , they allow a group of people to collaboratively develop a website. They are easy to set up and contributers don't need to know html.
One wiki I looked at - rocwiki - shows how interesting and useful a wiki can be. The wiki is about the US town of Rochester where unique local knowledge about all facets of the town are gathered on the website, if you were going to visit Rochester it would be an excellent guide to the town and you would discover all sorts of interesting information about the town and places to visit.
The Library wikis I looked at show some of the uses for wikis in libraries, for use both by staff and library users. The capacity for borrowers to add their reviews to the library catalogue is a nice feature.
Libraries could "host" a community wiki such as the one about their town.
A subject guide wiki is also a good idea where users update and maintain the wiki eg. adding new links and deleting obsolete links, plus add their own information.
The library can use wikis on the staff intranet for such things as collaborative document development, group projects, set up a collective knowledge base, conference planning - to name a few.
One wiki I looked at - rocwiki - shows how interesting and useful a wiki can be. The wiki is about the US town of Rochester where unique local knowledge about all facets of the town are gathered on the website, if you were going to visit Rochester it would be an excellent guide to the town and you would discover all sorts of interesting information about the town and places to visit.
The Library wikis I looked at show some of the uses for wikis in libraries, for use both by staff and library users. The capacity for borrowers to add their reviews to the library catalogue is a nice feature.
Libraries could "host" a community wiki such as the one about their town.
A subject guide wiki is also a good idea where users update and maintain the wiki eg. adding new links and deleting obsolete links, plus add their own information.
The library can use wikis on the staff intranet for such things as collaborative document development, group projects, set up a collective knowledge base, conference planning - to name a few.
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