Thursday, June 13, 2013

feedly and twitter


Google analytics

Great to have these going in the background.
Here is a webinar



about them - quality is lousy I would expect more of the Google team. This also goes for about 47 minutes!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I have found a really interesting blog about this topic.

I like this blog because it is easy to read and has a white background. it is really up to date and tehre are minimal ads on the site. All the posts about my topic too which is great.

here is the citation for the site because that's what we have to do for the unit we are studying at the Tasmanian Polytechnic

Webber, Sheila (2012 June 14) Information literacy weblog [Weblog message] retreieved from http://information-literacy.blogspot.com.au/

Monday, March 1, 2010

Technorati

Technorati is a blog searching application and you can add your own blog to the technorati site from the profile page. Once you have claimed your blog you will be asked to post on your blog with the technorati provided code. Here is the code for this blog NSAA4C8R4W3S

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Why web 2.0

Watch this video to find out why it is important to learn about Web 2.0

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Session 3 - Different formats for information

In this session we visited the State Reference Library to look at a whole lot of different types of resources including:
The class was divided into two groups and each group examined an example from the different formats to see if they could draw some general conclusions about their characteristics in terms of arrangement, scope, authority and publication pattern

We then came back to the Polytechnic and discussed what we had discovered and looked at online versions of these resources, some of which can be explored by clicking on the hyperlinks above. We discovered that the online versions were really much easier to use but may

Session 2 - Different ways of presenting information

There are many different ways of presenting information and we discussed reports, blogs, powerpoint as some examples.

The students read a handout about report writing from a book by Mary Gosling and Elizabeth Hopgood published in 1998 by Doc Matrix in Canberra called Learn About Information but most of this session was centred around learning about and creating blogs.

Students all created their own blogs and you can view examples by clicking on the following links. Bear in mind that there has been a bit of activity on the blogs since this session which was held some weeks ago now.
We also looked at a fabulous website by Alan Levine which provides an annotated list of 50 different ways to tell a story online. You can look at the site by clicking on this link