Week 7 - Podcasting and Online Hosted Video

How did I feel about the experience of using YouTube and what you think about this service. Do you see any potential uses for Podcasting in the library? If so what and why?
It is one of the greatest social networking tools that make people easily engage in sharing opinions and vidoes. It encourage peple to meet others in other environment, to read and share opinions, and be a part of community. It is the interactive features of YouTube that people allow to communicate and to pay attention visullay to what the otehr try to deliver. YouTube and Podcasting draw users into the experience and the contents so that they improve visula literacy. Podcasting helps library users understand the subject matters. It has the potential to expose library users to new skill easily without going through reading materials or accessing necessary information by themselves. It will improve users' information literacy more easily.

Week 6 : Online Photo Sharing

How might online photo Sharing be used in my library?
I like flickr. It is easy to use and uploading a picture is very transparent and simple. I can use the flickr to upload staff pictures or the hospital event and promote the hospital outside people. With Online photo Sharing, library can introduce what newly purchased book and resources are so that hospital employees can have more clear idea about the library that is not still used by large portion of the employees, medical staff and patients.

Week 5: Office tool optional assignment

Week 5: Web Office Tools

Is this the future of all software products? What do you think?
Google Docs & spreadsheets is easy to have people collaborate on the projects, but I should be on internet to access the document. Zoho makes collaboration easy, letting people share their documents or post them on the Web. But If we are off-line, we need to save documents on Word or Excel. There is also confidentiality and security issues with Google Doc, Zoho and other web document sites. I have to be very selective of what I post. So I don't think these web documents is not the future of all software products.

MLA WEEK 4: Social Bookmarking

Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere

I think this social bookmarking is a great experience ! I enjoyed reading what other people thought about their bookmarking. I made my del.icio.us account to save my own bookmark and I feel like I deposit money in my bank account. I can access them anywhere a computer is available. I bookmarked the resources for my profession, financial management and homelife. Yes, I can see the great potential of this tool for research assistance. Tagging cost users little in time and effort to find research resouces and offer creativity to categorize their own data. Users or researcher can organize their digital collection, categorize their contents, build classification system.