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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 6: Photos & Images - More Flickr
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 6: Photos and Images - More Flickr. Like many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications. Using images found on their site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third party tools and mashups. That use Flickr images. Wikipedia offers a slightly more detailed explanation. Lets you spell anything from Flickr photos. There's even Flickr Sudoku. Subscribe ...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 17: Cool Stuff
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 17: Cool Stuff. Spend a little time checking up on sites you visited or joined earlier. Try to find people in your MySpace, Facebook, or other account. Look up stuff in Technorati, and comment on people's blogs. Or, check out some of these sites, and form strong opinions about them:. The Blog Readability Test. Account, you can get a Scrabulous application for your account, and play with other facebook users. Video games like this are integra...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 12: Play! Image Generators/Catchup/Review
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. This is a week to relax a little bit. Go back to some things you tried earlier but haven't been back to since - what do you think of them now? Or, spend some time fleshing out one of the sites that you do like, and let us know what you like about it so much. And, this is a good time to play with some interesting new web toys, image generators and other kinds of mashup tools. Here are a few to try out:. Medical Prescription Drugs Image Generator.
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 5: Photos & Images - Discover Flickr
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 5: Photos and Images - Discover Flickr. This item will focus on photos and Flickr. Photo sharing websites have been around for several years. Flickr, though, is different - it's half photo sharing and half online community. How so? Flickr makes incredibly intelligent use of linking keyword 'tags' to create associations between photos and between users. Take a look at this photo on the King County Library System Flickr profile. The above photo il...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 2: Welcome - 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 2: Welcome - 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners. Lifelong learning is one of those core values that libraries are built on. So it makes sense that before we embark on this new online learning and discovery journey that we should take a few minutes to review a few habits that can assist in creating lifelong learners. These habits, called the Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners. Habit 1 – Begin with the end in mind. Item 7: ...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 10: Social Networks - General Introduction
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 10: Social Networks - General Introduction. This item will give you a general introduction to social networking. Danah Boyd, a social networking pundit, puts it this way. You should only read her linked article if you've got some time on your hands - it is long.):. 8220;Are you my friend? So, participants publicly identify their 'friends.' That's something new, fair enough. But the backbone for networked participation? Herman gets home from scho...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 13: Tagging & Folksonomies - del.icio.us
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 13: Tagging and Folksonomies - del.icio.us. In this unit we’ll be looking more closely at web 2.0 applications that take serious advantage of tagging (we've already looked at one - Flickr. The specific focus of today's lesson is del.icio.us. A social bookmarking manager site that lets you save bookmarks to a central location (no more copying them to multiple browsers on multiple computers) and classify them all with tags. Otter Group del.ici...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 7: RSS & Newsreaders - Explore Bloglines
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 7: RSS and Newsreaders - Explore Bloglines. You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey. Stands for “ R. Yndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. As with many 2.0 technologies,...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 1: Welcome - Getting Started
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 1: Welcome - Getting Started. Welcome one and all to the FVRL Discover 2.0 program! Over the next few months, you'll have the opportunity to spend some time looking at and working with a wide variety of new and interesting Internet tools and programs, and telling us what you think about them along the way. Once you've completed the program, you will get something for your efforts! First of all - what is Discover 2.0 about? Part of each Item will...
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program: Item 15: Tagging and Folksonomies - LibraryThing and Goodreads
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FVRL Discover 2.0 Program. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Item 15: Tagging and Folksonomies - LibraryThing and Goodreads. Here are some overviews of each site:. 1 Take a look at the overviews for both sites. 2 Create an account for one of them (if you are already a member of one, please join the other). 3 Add at least 5 books to your library. 4 Blog about your findings and be sure to link to your profile you created. What do you like about the one you chose? What do you wish was different? Tag your books -.
