Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Thing 17: Books 2.0

Question: Insight learned from resources in each categories on "Thing 17."

Answer (1) The Online Book Page: It is a website that facilitate access to free books readable over the internet. The Online Book Page is founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner of the University of Pennsylvania and the site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania libraries. It has over 900,000 works in various format, it is a collaborative work and books listed must meet certain criteria. All books are free for personal and noncommercial use. You can browse by author, title, subject and ISBN.
  • Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg: It has over 33,000 ebooks you can read via your PC, Kindle, iPad or via other readers. No fee is required for registration but you may be required to donate a small amount of money if you find Project Gutenberg useful so that more books can be digitalized. In the United States, Project Gutenberg books are free of charge and free of freedom because the copyright has expired but in other countries, users must check the copyright law before downloading and distributing.
  • Open Culture: This is a free high quality cultural and educational media put together in one place to be retrieved easily. Dan Coleman of Standford University is the lead editor but the site is not formally associated with Standford University.

Answer (2) I have Worldcat on my Facebook page. On Worldcat Facebook, I clicked on "Go to app", I signed in with my facebook details and gave a permission. It was then loaded on my facebook page. It is very useful to me because it a network of libraries and library contents.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Thing 16: Online Book Catalogs

My Library Thing Personal Account has 5 books for now.
To view, please see http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ElizabethAkinbulumo

Thing 14: Online Videos

Question: What makes a "viral video" go viral?

Answer: A viral video is that video that is electronically passes on from one person to the other regardless of its content.

What makes an online video go viral may be:
  1. What the video is communicating that is, its content
  2. Availability and affordability of site designated for sharing videos
  3. Just for sharing sake.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Thing 13: CO.NX Webchats

I have participated in several CO.NX Webchats. One outstanding chat was that on "Adapting to Climate Change" of March 17, 2010. It was educating and frightening, learning from Dr. Marcia K. McNutt as she discusses worldwide efforts on how to monitor climate change and prepare for the change. The problem we had was that of bandwidth, only 3 guests were able to use the IRC DIN computers at a time, and only a few can type in the question fast.

Thing 10: Introduction to SharePoint

As I explore the "23 Things" everyday, I discover that learning is a great treasure. My experience of SharePoint is that it is a great platform for group communication and sharing ideas.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Thing 11: Photo Sharing

A link from my blog has been attached to my Flickr account.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizakinbulumo

Thing 8: Collaboration Using Wikis

On the DOS Diplopedia under Outreach, Inreach and Programming, I add information on IRC Nigeria. Please see link
http://diplopedia.state.gov/index.php?title=ABCs_for_IRCs&action=edit&section=33