2008 Beijing Olympic torch has been lit!

Greek actress Maria Nafpliotou lit the flame at the Ancient Stadium. (Getty Images: Michael Steele)

I think the RSS feed has just worked for me! I happen to check my blog this evening and noticed the ABC news feed on my blog 'delivering' me this news item, updated 1 hour 45 minutes ago.

RSS & Bloglines

In Week 4 I learnt what RSS was and learnt how to subscribe to many feeds. With RSS you can get updated news and information delivered to you! I was able to subscribe to the 5 feeds mentioned in the course. For the SMH News Blog I chose a health blog called "Chew on this" which gives news and views about eating smarter. I also added in the BBC News blogs and ABC World news. When I was uploading photos onto Flickr, I noticed the RSS logo on my photopage and subscribed to that feed as well. From a library point of view I would say the ABS for librarians would be usueful and just a while a ago when I checked that feed it gave me information about their latest publication of the 2006 Census Social Atlas Series giving data on a variety of topics. I also subscribed to the NSW Board of Studies News, which would be a useful tool to our Year 11 & 12 students, especially with the HCS exams approaching soon.

I think this method of subscribing can be a wonderful tool if used to its full potential. However, the downfall would be, will we be able to keep up with all this updated news? How often will we have time to check the feeds? We will be lucky if we are able to check at least 1 news feed a day. In all spheres, news gets updatesd so fast, can we keep up with it?

Flickr Adventure

Today I tried my hand at uploading photos onto flickr. I decided I would take some pictures at home to upload, although we were supposed to take pictures of our libraries. Nevertheless, the main idea was to learn how we can do this. It was easy as ABC! Just follow the links and you are through!

I also learnt something else that's new. It is called Picnik mode in flickr, which is used for editing photos. Here's the link to my flickr page if you are interested. Not that the photos are great, but it is a good start. Hopefully, I will add pictures of my library soon .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24485308@N06/

Kids Halloween Display

Kids Halloween table display, originally uploaded by WestRegionalCary.

I chose this picture, because there are so many displays we do in our libraries to promote our services, festivals, special events etc. It takes up a lot of staff time, much thinking and creativity. Once the display is taken down we often forget the hard work. By putting these picures on the web, we will be able to recapture those memorable moments and share them with the rest of the world.

The Library@esplanade

esplanade - library, originally uploaded by chillntravel.

Photosharing

I had my first atttempt at photosharing and it was not bad after all. It took me a while to understand it at first, but once I mastered the concept it was easy. What a wonderful tool this would be for our libraries to market and promote our activities and events. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Our photos

Giraffes at the Taronga Zoo. This picture was taken soon after their feeding time. The kids each had a turn in feeding the Giraffes carrots!

This is a photo from my personal folder. Using the Blogger's Photo upload tool, I copied it into my blog posting.

The beginning

Blogging! Wow, that sounds exciting. This is my first time in blogging. Jennifer and Jacqi gave me 30 minutes on a Friday afternoon to create my own blog. What a challenge that was. Finding a name, in such short notice, was the hardest and I thought it's going to take me forever. Looking around me, I noticed a children's book on my table called "One little Penguin and his friends". A thought struck me, I'll call it penguinfriends!

For me I think, the Learning 2.0 is a new learning experience and a gateway to all the new emerging web technologies. These new terms can be mind-boggling, but I'm sure I'll be familiar with most of them, once I proceed with the program. My aim is to have fun while doing it and at the same time have an understanding of folksonomies, librarything, creativecommons, etc. etc. (to name a few).

Happy Blogging everyone!