My Librarian trading card

My creation
Originally uploaded by valeblue46

Wow...this is cool! I made my own librarian trading card...had to make the picture black and white as it really does a good job of hiding the dark circles under my eyes and makes me look less tired!

#5 Flickr

I think Flickr has many uses, both personal and work related. It is a great way to share photos with family and friends..especially if you don't see them very often. For work I can see many different ways to use Flickr - things like looking up different library displays to get ideas, I have heard of libraries running competitions where they get people from the community to take a photo that matches a theme (maybe, a day in the life of my library), and then the people can upload the photo to flickr using a predetermined tag.. this could then be displayed as a slideshow throughout our branch libraries...
And I have also used flickr to find some photo's of certain parts of buildings for some borrowers, so overall, Flickr is a great tool to use.

More fun things with Flickr

Well, I have added some code into my web page so that on the left hand side of my blog, you can have a look at some my photo's which I have uploaded to Flickr. I have also downloaded a little tool which means I can easily right click on any of my photos and choose to 'upload to flickr'...very cool.

And I do so love the 'Color Picker'...Check it out here...I don't know what I would ever use it for but it is great fun to play with

CHECK THIS OUT AT FLICKR

What a great idea..I am seeing loads of great ideas today!

A library using Flickr to post pictures of book covers with the heading, 'New Fiction'...and the pictures actually link into their catalogue.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54117187@N00/747212623/

I am so proud of our staff

I was very happy a few days when I first made my blog for Learning 2.0 and dicsovered that 3 other staff had already done theirs... I just checked to post some comments and there are now 12 blogs..and they are all fantastic.. I feel like a proud mother watching her children succeed at school :-) (even though i don't have kids).

I think it is great that staff are finding it easy to create blogs and I am looking forward to see what happens when we start looking at Flickr
so.....if anyone reads this...Well Done

Week 1 & 2 of Learning 2.0

Well, here it is - my first blog posting for the Victorian Public Libraries 'Learning 2.0 Program. I must admit that I have played around with a few Web 2.0 technologies and I had already created a Blogger account - I am hoping to learn lots of new and interesting things in this program and I am really hoping that other staff from my library service will enjoy the program.