Topic 16 - Image Generators

Image generators are fun to manipulate images and the options are endless.

I'm sure you could find one that could fit in with libraries and would go down well with the gen y crowd.

My little creation's below

Topic 15 Podcasting

Trying to find a podcast that would work was a bit difficult, but finally I have found one

Star Wars Action News

Information about star wars for the ultimate fan.

the RSS feeds are linked on the left, but when you click the link it will open a download link but be warned the file size is 80MB.

Th file sizes could be a problem for some users and access may slow if opening at TAFE.

Topic 14 Youtube & Teachertube

Behold William Shatner aka Captain Kirk singing "Rocketman" at the 1978 sci fi awards.



You can find anything on youtube, but many copyright issues could come up.

Both youtube and teachertube have a good feature in which you can embed the clip into a website.

Topic 13 igoogle

The gadgets you can add to your igoogle homepage are cool, useful and numerous.

You can add quick links to your flickr and youtube account and see your contents.
YOur RSS feeds, Google Docs, Blogs can all been seen in the one place, which makes igoogle sorta like your desktop on a pc, but one that can travel with you .

I also like the option where you can add games.

the downside with this , is the fact you are the only ones who can see the homepage and you cannot broadcast it to others unless you email them a link to it and invite them to view.

If the library canfind a way to add gadgets to its library pagethat everyone can view it would be good and useful.

Topic 12 Tagging

Tagging on delicious is like adding a website to your favourite lists in internet explorer or bookmarks on firefox.

The only difference is, which is a good one if you are using different computers the tagging can follow you.

You can open your delicious website and see all your favourite websites ready for you to use.

An example in its use:

iThis is great for presentations when you maybe using someon else' computer and instead of typing websites you can just click the links from delicious.

Topic 10 & 11 Flickr

You can just about find any topic imaginable on flickr to browse
- which can be good and bad!

I like the option of making photo's public or private.

The bad part was trying to upload a picture to my blog
through flickr's blogging tools, didn't seem to want to work for me.

I ended up copying the picture and inserting it below :)

Taken while on my trip to melbourne to watch the mighty

West Coast Eagles play Melbourne at the MCG and lose :(

i will post a link to flickr with some more once i set flickr up !!

Topic 8 & 9 Wikis

Wikis what can I say, these were fun, It was cool to be able to edit or add stuff to a website in real time and not having to know any html stuff.

The problem with wikis is that other people can delete your stuff or change it, but with some of the tools you can get your stuff back.

The LEARN sandbox was fun adding to a list already created by others , also inserting pictures and colouring of the text I found was quite easy.