Week 11: task 23: final reflection

Summarise your thoughts on the programme and where you would like to go from here.

Week 10: task 22: widgets

Investigate some of the widgets available on your blogsite. Use these to integrate some of your new resources into your blog.

Week 9: tasks 19 - 21: presentations

Task 19: Explore Slideshare www.slideshare.net and post a favourite topic on your blog.

Task 20: Create a small Prezi http://prezi.com presentation and share it with your colleagues.

Task 21: Explore Jing www.techsmith.com/jing.html, Snaggit www.techsmith.com/snagit.html and Camtasia www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html. Use one of these to record a small screencast. Upload and share with colleagues.

Slideshare: I have been using this for a few years to view (no log in required) presentations shown at CPD events I've attended. Earlier this year I created my own account to upload CILIP President Phil Bradley's PowerPoint from his talk "Social Media and its Importance to Librarians" at an event I hosted in Southampton www.slideshare.net/bedfordsarah/arlg-southampton10513 that was too large (15MB) to upload and download easily to/from my CILIP ARLG Southern group's website www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/c-of-he/circles/southern/pages/events.aspx.

Prezi: I attended Prezi training at the College on 21st March 2012 with ILT's Pat and Nicky. In November/December 2012 I created a Prezi that I used in a job interview on the topic of "Effectively Marketing Library Services to a Diverse Range of Student Library Users" http://prezi.com/kudf37y87oh-/marketing-library-services-to-diverse-students/

Camtasia: College LRC staff used this from 2010 to 2012 to create screencasts with audio for using the online library catalogue: logging in; renewing; reserving items etc. Although these are on our T Drive, they were never made public by adding them to the LRC pages on mybpc. It it was easy to use to record and edit screencasts and their audio. However, due to license restrictions, Camtasia was only available on a couple of PCs at ILT, North Road which made it hard to access. ILT recently suggested www.screencast-o-matic.com to me as a free alternative, although screencasts recorded with it can't be edited post-recording.

Jing:

Snagit: 

Week 8: tasks 16 - 18: search engines

Task 16: Find an archived document on the “Wayback Machine”. Post about this and other ways of finding lost websites.

Task 17: LISZEN is a customised search engine of hundreds of library blogs. List the top three sites returned from your topic of choice.

Task 18: Create your own custom engine using GoogleCSE. Discuss how this could be integrated into Moodle.

Wayback Machine http://archive.org/web/web.php: I looked for Bournemouth Libraries websites from 2005 to 2007 when I was editing it. For example I found the following:
23/04/07 
http://web.archive.org/web/20070423000118/http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/libraries
16/02/07
http://web.archive.org/web/20070216035316/http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Libraries
26/09/06
http://web.archive.org/web/20060926024319/http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Libraries

I also found this audio of Tony Benn speaking in Bournemouth Gardens in Sept 2003
http://archive.org/details/Tony_Benn_speaking_in_Bournemouth_September_2003

I am also aware of the British Library's UK Web Archive www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa which is being used to archive the CILIP website following its 2013 refresh. 
See www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/131969/source/search

and CILIP Communities at www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/65994835/source/search

As web editor of 2 local CILIP groups, and blog editor of one of these I have also archived our web pages at Archive.is http://archive.is e.g. http://archive.is/Whw9m (ARLG-S), and

http://archive.is/OoYWU (SE-H&W) and http://archive.is/cLN4K (SE-H&W Communities blog)  

LISZEN http://liszen.com: 

I searched for '23 Things'. The top 3 results were:

1. Apr 2013 "23 Mobile Things: Join the Australian / New Zealand Course" by katejf http://librariesinteract.info/2013/04/12/23-mobile-things-join-the-australian-new-zealand-course
2. Jun 2011 "Supercharge your CPD: 23 Things for Professional Development" – A TTW [Tame the Web] guest post by Maria Giovanna De Simone http://tametheweb.com/2011/06/20/supercharge-your-cpd-23-things-for-professional-development-a-ttw-guest-post-by-maria-giovanna-de-simone
3. Aug 2011 "Beyond 23 Things: Enhanced Self-Paced Training" posted by Jennifer
    http://blog.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/2011/08/11/beyond-23-things-enhanced-self-paced-training

Google CSE (Custom Search Engine) www.google.com/cse: I created a custom search engine that searches 8 Dorset and Hampshire newspaper websites e.g. Bournemouth Echo www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=013894997405035377614:qjsiyva_wly I can use this to search for news stories about local libraries for one of my other blogs.

In 2011 I found one that I shared with Popular Music Technology students in a session:  www.google.com/cse/home?cx=007990972803243645986:e6r-qn3sehy

A Google CSE could be created for each College subject area to search all their 'useful websites' that are not password protected and the link put on their Moodle subject page.

Week 7: tasks 13 - 15: file sharing and collaboration

Task 13: explore Google Docs and Drop Box. Create and upload a document in one of these and share it with some of your 23 Things colleagues.

Task 14: explore and blog about Zotero; a citation management system with the advantage of being able to save resources in multiple formats (journal articles, PDFs, PowerPoint, images, webpages and podcasts).

Task 15: explore existing wikis such as LISWiki (www.liswiki.org) and read Noodle's article on using wikis as an intranet (www.vialect.com/ways-to-use-wikis-in-your-intranet). Post the advantages and disadvantages of using wikis as a library intranet.

Google Drive (which was Google Docs until 2012) https://drive.google.com: I first uploaded a document to my  in 2007, a Word .doc. In my work with CILIP SE Hants&Wight I also have access to shared documents in a Google Drive by logging in to ciliphw@googlemail.com.

Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com: I signed up to and downloaded Dropbox in December 2012 at the request of Richard Hawkins, CILIP's Online Information Manager, for CILIP's Website Refresh Project which I am involved in as I am the web editor for both the SE Hants&Wight sub-branch and the ARLG Southern sub-group:

"Access to Documents and Images from the Current Website: All the documents and images (including publications such as newsletters etc) from your branch and group web pages are now available to you via a Dropbox folder. If you require access to these files please let me know and I will share the appropriate Dropbox folder with you so you can download them (you will need to sign up with Dropbox if you haven’t already). Please therefore reply and provide me with the email address you used to register your Dropbox account as I need this to enable the sharing to take place, and state which branch or group’s files you require access too. Many of the files will be available in the future via the British Library Web Archive copy of the current site. However some documents saved in member-only pages will not be available so unless you have a complete record yourself you might want to download the Dropbox back-up before the current website becomes unavailable."

Zotero www.zotero.org: You have to sign up and then download a browser plug-in - these are available for Firefox, Chrome and Apple's Safari (and ZotPad app in iPad for £7). This looks like a useful online store for researchers who want to collect, organise, and share oline articles and book references from online library catalogues etc. that they've found.

Wikis: LISWiki's content is patchy; lots about some topics while little or nothing on others. But it does indicate the potential of an informative website where many people log in and share what they know about certain topics, and so build up a reference resource (like Wikipedia).

Week 6: task 12: podcasting and videos

Find and listen to some podcasts and search some of the “Common Craft” videos on YouTube. Discuss some of these on your blog.

I have listened to many podcasts since they first appeared about 10 years ago; both those from and about libraries or work e.g. http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/podcasts/default.aspx and http://www.bl.uk/podcast and those for general entertainment e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts.

I found and used the Common Craft (on YouTube www.youtube.com/user/commoncraft) video on Search Strategies www.commoncraft.com/video/web-search-strategies in my 'Web Evaluation and eSafety (including advanced web search)' Information Skills sessions from 2011 to 2012, before it was decided to stop running this session with our students.

LISTA saved search for "further education college" - click link below

Click here: EBSCOhost: Result List: further education college to see search results

Week 5: task 11: reflective practice

Blog about your discoveries so far...

I used this week to look at the tasks I may have skimmed over in past weeks:

• Technorati http://technorati.com: I tried this but I found Google Blog Search www.google.co.uk/blogsearch gave better results e.g. http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/ltg-casestudies/2012/08/20/teaching-web-2-0-skills-23-things-oxford 

• I added a Twitter widget of my tweets to this blog.

• Feedly, Bloglines, Netvibes, Digg:

• JournalTOCs, Zetoc  http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk - I managed to log into this with my BU staff username and password. I tried some searches to see what the results were, and then set up some email Alerts, and an RSS feed (via SAGE, not via Zetoc) on this blog for the BU full text journal Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS).

• Saved Search Alert and "Blog This" for one of the BPC databases e.g. EBSCO's LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts): see post above (created with Share > More > Blogger). I also set up a weekly email alert for this search.

• Delicious:  I looked at this, but don't think its for me. In general, I don't want to influence or make recommendations or share my thoughts and opinions with others, sorry!

• CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org: I registered, searched for articles and built up a library. Not sure I get it? Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteULike to find out more.

• LibraryThing: I joined and added some books (mostly non-fiction) that I've read and enjoyed recently. My library is at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/BomoSarah and my profile is at http://www.librarything.com/profile/BomoSarah. I added my library books as a LibraryThing widget to this blog.

• Library 2.0: my application to join was approved on 21/05/13, but I didn't get round to logging in until 27/05/13. I posted about myself on their Introductions forum and uploaded a photo. My profile is at http://www.library20.com/profile/SarahBedford.
  
  I get regular emails, usually about CPD in America e.g. 

From: Library 2.0 [mail@library20.com] Sent: 28 May 2013 14:28 To: Sarah Bedford Subject: Tuesday Interview: Education, Success, and What Really Works - Dan Willingham and Doug Lemov Join me today, Tuesday, May 28th, for an unique live and interactive FutureofEducation.comconversation with authors Dan Willingham and Doug Lemov to talk about education, success, and what really works. Please note that this show is earlier in the day than usual. In When Can You Trust the Experts: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education, psychology professor and returning guest Dan Willingham laments that "the last fifty years have encapsulated a flood of educational quackery and nostrums. The innovation and implementation continues, while teachers, administrators, and policymakers have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff. What makes this so difficult for individuals in the American educational system? They're on their own. There is no research team to evaluate every new idea. But there is pressure to effect change through these innovations." Dan offers a four-step process for discerning which of the latest educational models, programs, and approaches are actually worthy of attention. Doug Lemov, author of best-selling Teach Like a Champion, joins us as well to discuss his newest book, Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better. Doug and his co-authors want to put he art of practice "front and center," and show that "anyone, in any field, can come to appreciate that practice... makes champions," and that "deliberately engineered and designed practice can revolution our most important activities." See you online! Steve Steve Hargadon http://www.stevehargadon.com Date: Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 Time: 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern (international times here) Duration: 1 hour Location: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at http://www.futureofed.info. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit the support and configuration page. Recording:  A full Blackboard Collaborate recording and an audio mp3 recording will be available athttp://www.stevehargadon.com and http://www.futureofeducation.com. Daniel T. Willingham is professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. Until about 2000, his research focused solely on the brain basis of learning and memory. Today, all of his research concerns the application of cognitive psychology to K–12 education. He writes the “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” column for American Educator magazine and is the author of Why Don’t Students Like School? (Jossey-Bass, 2009). His writing on education has been translated into ten languages. To learn more, go tohttp://www.danielwillingham.com. Doug Lemov’s highly influential first book, Teach Like a Champion, was based on his study of top teachers in high-poverty public schools. He uses what he learned watching great teachers work their magic to train educators as part of his work at Uncommon Schools, the nonprofit school management organization he helped found. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College, a Master of Arts from Indiana University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. To learn more, go to www.teachlikeachampion.com.

Week 4: tasks 9 & 10: professional networks

Task 9: Explore online networks: LinkedIn, Library 2.0, LISNPN, CILIP communities. What advantages (or disadvantages) could the LRC get from creating their own network through Ning. Discuss on your blog.

Task 10: Sign up to national/regional and special interest groups. Share what attracted you to these groups on your blog.

I have been in LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com for several years, and been aware of the LIS New Professionals Network http://lisnpn.spruz.com since July 2009 when I attended a CILIP Career Development Group conference in London http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/careerdevelopment/cdg-benefits/newprofessionals/Pages/newprofessionalsconferencepapers.aspx. 

Library 2.0 http://www.library20.com is less familiar to me however.

The previous B&PC LRCs Manager asked me to look at Ning http://www.ning.com in 2011/12, especially http://psychfutures.ning.com and http://mathematics24x7.ning.com . Because people have to pay to use Ning, I didn't think it would be used much by the LRC or B&PC tutors. 
Teresa at LD LRC was appointed our Ning specialist in April 2012.

I edit a CILIP Communities blog for SE Hampshire & Wight http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cilip-hw/default.aspx, but this will be archived when the new CILIP website goes live later this year.

I am on the committee of, and web edit for, the 2 most local CILIP groups: SE Hants & Wight - I switched my CILIP region from SW to SE -, and ARLG (Academic and Research Libraries group) Southern. I am also a member of CILIP's Cataloguing & Indexing group. I have been a member of CILIP for 10 years, and achieved CILIP Chartership (MCLIP) in 2012.

Week 3: tasks 7 & 8: social bookmarking and tagging

Task 7: Explore different bookmarking sites such as Delicious, CitUlike, Connotea, and PearlTrees. Join one and connect with other users; blog about your experiences.

Task 8: Explore social cataloguing sites such as LibraryThing and WorldCat. Begin your own bookshelf, share details with colleagues and comment on their collections.

Pearltrees:
I signed up to www.pearltrees.com in March 2012, at the then B&PC LRCs Manager's request. LRC staff were invited to team up with the B&PC LRCs Deputy Librarian's LRC Tools Pearltree. 
I created one Pearltree myself, of the B&PC LRC social networking & eResources.
I'm afraid I didn't 'get it' and wasn't confident I could support tutors who chose to use them. 
In April 2012 this particular role was assigned to Lisa at NR LRC.

Other social bookmarking sites:
https://delicious.com - Keep, share, and discover websites
http://www.citeulike.org - Service for managing and discovering scholarly references
http://www.connotea.org - Discontinued on March 12, 2013 

Social cataloguing sites:
http://www.librarything.com
Interesting, but less so to me as I buy and store very few books at home myself as I work in a public library and so have quick, free access to almost any book I want to read, and I usually have 10 or so books on the go - I'm too busy actually reading books to go online about it!

http://www.worldcat.org
I have explored this before and think its very interesting, although rather too US-centric; for example nothing from Dorset Libraries ever shows in its search results.

Week 2: tasks 5 & 6: RSS feeds and Twitter

Week 2 Current awareness: Task 5 RSS feeds; Task 6 Sign up Twitter.

RSS feeds
I added the 3 RSS feed on the right.

Twitter
I signed up to Twitter in August 2009, but at first I didn't use it much. Several things changed that: Firstly, I read Grace Dent's 2011 book called "How to leave Twitter" which goes through the typical stages of Twitter use, and how not to tweet, in a funny, friendly way. Then in August 2011 I experienced some news events that were so fast-changing that even news websites could not deliver current, useful information i.e. the London riots and the summer flash flood in Bournemouth town centre on the first day of the Air Festival. In November 2011 I used Twitter to arrange a last-minute refund on a train ticket that I could not use because of snow, having been unable to reach their customer services by phone or elsewhere online, and I was impressed that I got through immediately and was refunded quickly and easily. I also used Twitter in my CILIP Chartership, which I submitted in January 2012. In early 2012 I attended some events in London (Guardian Open Weekend and TEDxObserver) where everyone was using Twitter. Finally, at Christmas 2012 I got an Apple iPad on which Twitter is much quicker and easier to use.

My Twitter name is @BomoSarah. Currently I have about 135 followers, and I follow about 400 people and organisations. I have tweeted or re-tweeted over 1,150 times. I also get re-tweeted by others, for example: 

I recommend following these:

For 23 Things: @cpd23 @bpclibrary20 @twitter

For academic library and CILIP news: @ciliphw @cilipsw @arlgsw @arlglondonandse @cilip_arlg @cilipcdg @infolitgroup @cilipcig @cilipevents @cilipinfo @cilippresident @philbradley @annie mauger @ukeig @timeshighered @sconulfocus @uksg @fefocus @fenews @feontap @felibraries @infoism @library_connect @skills_learning

For other work-related news: @bpcollege @jellicoetheatre @bpcsu @bpcollegesports @radioaspire @bournemouthuni @heritagelms @hug @dawsonera @dawsonbooks @rscsouthwest @jisc @jisccollections @jiscevents @netskills @jisc_techdis @jisclegal @cla_uk @colric_tweets @aoc_info @swrlsdir @copac @thinkuknowuk @ceopuk

For local book-related events: @bmthfestofwords @bufestivals @artsbournemouth @artsinpoole @poolelibraries @poolemuseum @lighthousepoole @gulliversbks @waterstonesbmth @waterstonesbcp @poolewaterstone

For local news and travel: @bournemouthecho @bbcdorset @bbcradiosolent @bbcsouthnews @itvmeridian @hot1028news @bournemouthbc @boroughofpoole @wave105travel @yellowbuses @morebusco @dorsetpolice @pccdorset @envagencysw 

For national news: @guardiannews @bbcnews @bbcbreaking @skynewsbreak

Week 1: Introduction and tasks 1 - 4 : Blogs

Although I missed the training day on 10th April 2013 when the Learning 2.0 / 23 Things Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme was introduced to Bournemouth and Poole College (BPC) Learning Resources Centre (LRC) staff, I would like to join in with it.

I have looked at the home blog http://bpc-library20.blogspot.co.uk and think I know what to do.

Here are the first set of tasks - on Blogs:

1 Set up your Google ID and Blog accounts.

2 Create your first blog post - write about what you hope to get out of the programme.

3 Consider your personal brand. Post how you will achieve this.

4 Explore and comment on your colleagues' blogs.

I already have a Google/Blogger account, and some blogs (CILIP South East Hants & Wight - for events and past events of this CILIP sub-branch, The Bournemouth Librarian - which I use to list links for local library-related events & talks and public library news, and Emerald Guide - from 2007) but I created this new blog for my BPC LRC Learning 2.0 / 23 Things CPD. 

This is my first blog post on this new blog. 

I hope to learn new things and get this CPD professionally recognised when I finish it.

I will use this blog to document and comment on each of the 23 Things that I do for this CPD.

I have looked at the other blogs that my colleagues have created - early days so far! I did post a comment on Lesley's blog http://lesleymcd23things.blogspot.co.uk admiring her template.