Video's - Te Rā Mere - Friday 29 August

Late with this post, that's what happens when I've got such a full life, Yeehaa. Because I find videos an easier way to learn something new, this post is about videos. Building Academic Library 2.0. is featured here and the rest of the (Common Craft) video's that were on my blog can now be accessed through here.

Te RāTū - Tuesday 12 August

Ok, ok, I adore these little ones, and I do like the photographs in the Te Ao Hou magazine as well.



WOW, I've found the 'gadgets' that are available with our blogs, yehaa. I've added 'He kupu o te Ra,' awesome, as well as a calendar (that's the control person in me), Inspirational Quotes and Pictures, I do like quotes, and photographs, well enough said. That's why I've got Places to See. The reason why I added 'Things to ponder' is because I enjoy those little titbits of info, even though they had to be pretty good, because they came with advertising and I was on the point of not adding them. I've also found all of these library related gadgets, search answers etc, fantastic. Learning to sign, when I have a spare moment. Near the bottom of my blog are Common Craft videos on RSS, Wiki, Social Bookmarking and Podcasting.

Te Rā Pare - Thursday 31 July

YES!! More of the wet stuff!!
Last day of the month and just a wrap up of July. Most of the required exercises I had done and wrote about on July 13, however, there were others that I had added to my Link List and I hadn't mentioned. I've added Manukau Public Libraries;which is a RSS; Tagnautica this is a really fun application which puts words together in a fun way; Unshelved a comic based on a library and librarians, it also is interesting to see the many series; LibraryThing where a few of my chosen books are on a slide show; fd's Flickr Toys I could have (and did) spend ages playing with the many applications, Bubblr was one where I put together a series of photos (from Flickr) to create a slide show, this is at the bottom of my blog, Hocknerizer is what I used to do my blog header; Flickr: Hikurangi's Photostream I have a 'stream' of photos with Flickr, but I found Picasa Web Albums easier to use, especially when it came to my slide show at the top of the page. I also found a site called , Bravenet which was another site for more applications, I liked the idea that I could have a counter on my blog, but more so I could see at what time I had visits. I added the Technorati side show a while ago, I think it was because I'm a Matrix fan and I liked the black and green colour scheme. I have now joined Technorati Profile so that I could access heaps of info including 'the most popular blogs,' that I might one day require. A mashup that I liked was twittervision, it was a combination of Twitter, Facebook and 3D earth, it was cool to see people on the net, writing in different languages in short sentences, as it happened. Joining RADIO.BLOG.CLUB I got to choose different songs that can be played at home, but not on our work pc's. I liked searching different sites that were enjoyable and informative as well as being free. My major problem was that I had to join so many different sites and remember all of the passwords.

Te Rā Tapu - Sunday 13 July

I have been having so much fun with this blogging. However, with my daily photo journal I find it hard to chose just ONE photograph per day. I am also conscious of the fact that these photographs are on the net, therefore, if the photos have people in them, I will get their (or their caregivers) permission to use them. Failing that I would try to take photos of people in a crowd. Other than all of the many different accounts that I have set up, another challenge I am having, is that I end up surfing all over the place and trying out heaps of things, of which I have put only a few of them on here. I think that the fun in all of it was finding and playing on the sites. It is really awesome.

Oh the places I have been,
and the things I have seen.

We were asked to set up a couple of internet feeds and a RSS feed. As I am a news seeker I added NZ Herald and Ataahua Māori I also have an interest in photography, so I added i heart photograph and Richard Estes. Cooking with Amy was added for that reason as well, for interest value. I wouldn't want to suggest that I am an expert in either area...yet. A couple of RSS feeds were Technorati and My Blogline the intructions on both of them were easy to follow. Our libraries could use the RSS to get up to date information and show patrons how this could be done. Then I met up again with a friend and remembered that he plays beautiful music, so added his link as well. The Broken Heartbreakers Online Also thought that I'd add another blog by some one in the music industry. Scratch Dat!

The generators were awesome. I had a play with Word clouds, Wordle - Ngati Porou all I had to do was add some words and the generator would put it all together in which ever way or whatever colours I wanted.

I tried many of the generators, some of which included the following:

The 8 ball was created with the imageGenerator , I also created a 'clippy,' that was so much fun. Words could be inserted in much the same way as 'the yeah right' slogans. I mosified Ben Bratts head on another’s body with Moosify he is such a prettiful man, especially in one of my favorite movies, Miss Congeniality with Sandra Bullock, another great actor. Magnigraph and Warholizer was where I coloured a photo in different colours, as shown above. Photos could be aged with old style and Cover Browser was when I could type words into speech bubbles of comic books.
It was lovely with an 'edge of vanity' to put myself on the front of a magazine or to be on a movie poster Be on TV Guide however, I think I missed my 'calling.'

After joining Flickr: Hikurangi's Photostream I found I could do a lot of great things with my photos through this link. fd's Flickr Toys One of which was called ‘Motivator,' I was meant to put some 'inspiration words' within the frame as well but the picture and title 'Papa Kainga' (home) alone, done it for me.

I also used fd's Flickr Toys so that I could play around with all of my photos and make my side show. I'm still not satisfied with it, so I'll play around with it and tweek it here and there, til I get it right. OK, OK it still isn't up to my satisfaction so I've ended up using a Picasa slide show.

LibraryThing The library thing was great to have a play in. The few books that I chose were only for the benefit of having to chose some books. I think if I actually had to put books on 'the shelf,' there would not be enough room. I've also put on the side bar Unshelved which is a library comic that I found interesting, our Manukau Public Libraries which needs no explanation, as well as Rollyo: Hikurangi which is a list of specified websites that I have chosen. I really think that Rollo is a great addition for the sake of accumulating relevant information in one place. As well as the previous feeds, I also added Technorati slide show, I found everything easy enough to join up and use most of the feeds, it was just trying to remember all of my user names and passwords.

Okay, that's enough of all of these words. Thank goodness a new week has started and I can go back to photographs. There should also be a rule that "one cannot fix and re-fix and re-fix and ....one's blog. hehe. That's the perfectionist in me.