Geocaching - FINALLY!

Phew! Its been tricky to get the time to finish this but finally I can complete this course...and whats the last topic..something ismple and easy that I'm relatively familiar with I take it..hmmn..I...GEOCACHING!!!

Ok..ok..relax. This should be easy enough..after all I did complete a year of the Geographic INformations System course at Uni - I should be fine...hmmn..."USe your gps on your mobile phoine or find someone who has one.." ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!

Ok, I'm calm. Geocaching then. Its a cool fun little tool - I've seen it used in stuff like Foursquare and the like (i think thats the same thing)..I think its low on the priority list compared to the blogs and the podcasts and the twitters and the facebooks and such but its still a handy fun little thing to be familiar with.

I can see lotsa cool activities that could be linked with this/ Having a kids activity over school holidays where they had to use this to get to various parts of the library where they can find clues would be a cool little idea ..and maybe one id like to try and implement one day..could be fun. I wont go into too much detail on it (as I havent exactly thought of it yet) but yes, I can see how it can be used for fun activities and such. But I don't think its as important to libraries as the other web 2.0 tools we've been discussing.

Ok. My final thoughts and wrap up. Its been fun. I've enjoyed doing it - enjoyed the social elemnts and reading everyones blogs, twitter posts (oh sorry..tweets. Nope. I cant say that non sarcastically) and so forth. Its been fun. I'm a bit of a computer nerd myself so I was already relatively familiar with the bulk of the program (plus I just did a unit on essentially the same material last semester at university so that helps too) so while I REALLY havent learnt too much new stuff its been great revision. Tagging i guess, and delicious, is an area ...oh! And wikis... that I wasnt too familiar with so thats nice.

Thanks to Melissa and Mark for organising it all and thanks to the guys at Spearwood for providing me with that lovely iPad that I shalt win. :)

And yeah, I'd like to do some comics for the course next year - should be fun!

Online Video

OK, I'm going a little out of order here but I'm doing my post about Online Video now. Yup - AFTER podcasts. That's the way I roll.

Anyway, yes, online video is a nifty thing. There's been talk about recording storytime (as i think i mentioned in next weeks task on podcasts..oh wait..) and hosting it somewhere so people can watch it from home if they cant make it in. Whatever gets me more exposure I say! (I do storytime at Success once a week)

Er..anyway, I do watch a lot of online video - mostly (to be totally unexpected here) comic video shows. Yes, shocking I know. Revision 3 is a site that produces a lot of Internet TV shows of very high production values - check em out. The best of these is actually no longer a part of revision 3 but iFanboy is a podcast and videocast (or vodcast if you're cool and in the know ;) ) which I've been watching/listening to for around 4 or 5 years now.

Argh. I apparently cant figure out how to start typing again after the embedded video so I'll leave it till the end of the post. Embedded video of library events of any type, authors reading excerpts from their books (Neil Gaiman is doing a tour of the US at the moment and at each stop he's reading a chapter from the Graveyard Book which is then being uploaded to the net) and other book related events would be the first step I'd take in using online video. And now I'm all motivated, darnit.




Hey whaddaya know, i figured out how to do it after all. (hint - 'edit html' rather than 'compose' tends to work fairly nicely.) Oh by the way, I haven't actuallyw atched the above episode. Normally its pretty SFW but they can be known to drop a little language from time to time so be warned.

Edit..AAANNND Its messed my page up. Oh well. Its widescreen people - get with the times.