Unfortunately repeated attempt to upload my video to YouTube has caused me to burn through all my allowed bandwidth, meaning my Internet is so slow it's almost impossible to use, which has not only killed my attempts at searching around for sites for Rollyo, but also has killed my attempts to do research for another class.
However, while it still works, I would like to tell you all about Vocaroo. This will not be a formal evaluation, because the website doesn't have enough information to do so and the service itself is still new and under development. The disclaimer page warns people not to use this service for anything very important.
Also the site itself is quite informal, the person who made it has a sense of humour.
Vocaroo is a web-based service designed to record and send voice messages over the Internet. It is very simple to use and all you need is a microphone (or, a pair of headphones, if you need to send a message right now but don't have access to a mic).
The site itself is very simple and clean, the help and information pages offer FAQ answers and general information for using Vocaroo. You can contact the Webmaster, donate and even pay for an express version of Vocaroo.
Here is a little toy that Vocaroo offers, it allows you to record and playback your voice. Please note that messages are not saved or downloadable.
- Piff
Monday, April 19, 2010
YouTube.
A while back I was browsing some of my sites and I noticed that a lot of video-sharing sites have followed the naming trend of YouTube, resulting in countless sites named Something-Tube.
The internet really is a series of 'tubes. Thanks Mr Stevens.
YouTube is a video-sharing site. It's very simple really, people create accounts (you need to have an email to do this, or if you have a Google account, you can use that account to sign in) and then they upload their videos to YouTube's server. There are filters and screening processes and user report functions in place so that videos with explicit content don't make it onto YouTube.
There are however more complex features to YouTube that can be explored. Users can create channels to showcase their own videos and any videos that they may have "favourited" these are then subscribed to and YT will send the users that have subscribed notices when changes are made to the channel. Users can friend one another, comment on videos and on channels (although be wary of the GID Theory, as it has shown itself to be a problem on YT). In addition, if you value your privacy, you can elect to have your videos only viewable by people on your friend list and you can elect to disable commenting on your videos. Recently, YouTube has allowed users to place captions and annotations on their videos and some people have managed to use them in some innovative ways.
I feel that one should always exercise caution when searching on YouTube becuase while you can find helpful, informative videos on a phenominal range of topics, you will most likely have to wade through quite a few videos which are pointless, silly or ultimately unrelated to what you were looking for. The "Reccomended for You" section of the YT home page always reminds me of this, as it very rarely has anything in it that I want to watch, despite being generated for me based on my video watching patterns.
Here is where I would try to embed the video which I recorded for this class, but I'm having trouble uploading it. (It takes forever and keeps giving me errors.) Hopefully one of these times it will work and I'll be able to embed it here, but until then, I'll leave you with a one of my favourite videos
Enjoy your YouTube!
Piff
A while back I was browsing some of my sites and I noticed that a lot of video-sharing sites have followed the naming trend of YouTube, resulting in countless sites named Something-Tube.
The internet really is a series of 'tubes. Thanks Mr Stevens.
YouTube is a video-sharing site. It's very simple really, people create accounts (you need to have an email to do this, or if you have a Google account, you can use that account to sign in) and then they upload their videos to YouTube's server. There are filters and screening processes and user report functions in place so that videos with explicit content don't make it onto YouTube.
There are however more complex features to YouTube that can be explored. Users can create channels to showcase their own videos and any videos that they may have "favourited" these are then subscribed to and YT will send the users that have subscribed notices when changes are made to the channel. Users can friend one another, comment on videos and on channels (although be wary of the GID Theory, as it has shown itself to be a problem on YT). In addition, if you value your privacy, you can elect to have your videos only viewable by people on your friend list and you can elect to disable commenting on your videos. Recently, YouTube has allowed users to place captions and annotations on their videos and some people have managed to use them in some innovative ways.
I feel that one should always exercise caution when searching on YouTube becuase while you can find helpful, informative videos on a phenominal range of topics, you will most likely have to wade through quite a few videos which are pointless, silly or ultimately unrelated to what you were looking for. The "Reccomended for You" section of the YT home page always reminds me of this, as it very rarely has anything in it that I want to watch, despite being generated for me based on my video watching patterns.
Here is where I would try to embed the video which I recorded for this class, but I'm having trouble uploading it. (It takes forever and keeps giving me errors.) Hopefully one of these times it will work and I'll be able to embed it here, but until then, I'll leave you with a one of my favourite videos
Enjoy your YouTube!
Piff
Sunday, April 11, 2010
SUDDENLY, A BLOG.
I almost forgot!!
During my searching today I found a blog I thought I'd share. It's probably already posted on someone elses blog but just in case it isn't, I thought I'd post it.
http://auslibrarytechnician.blogspot.com/
During my searching today I found a blog I thought I'd share. It's probably already posted on someone elses blog but just in case it isn't, I thought I'd post it.
http://auslibrarytechnician.blogspot.com/
Today, Wikis.
A Wiki is essentially an online database of linked webpages, using software that allows people to view and edit individual pages via their web-browsers. The software that powers the pages is called Wiki, thus the name.
The actual word "wiki" is Hawaiian for "fast"; the creator of wiki-technology, Ward Cunningham, talks about the etymology of the term.
It took me a while to find a wiki relating to Libraries or Library tech that really interested me, most of the good ones had alread been snaffled.
I'm going to look at the 21st Century School Library wiki, which I'm finding hard to form a proper citation of, mainly becuase the wiki itself is quite sparse.
http://21cschoollibrary.wikispaces.com/
This wiki seems to have been created by someone named Fran Huges, for whom I can find only a Flickr page. As I mentioned before, the wiki is quite small and seems to consist primarily of links to other places and sources of information, with a small number of videos scattered throughout. Just by looking I can see that most of the information linked to is either for, or from sources within Australian Schools, or topically relavant.
The photos section of the site was one of the more filled out sections and seemed to me to be the most interesting, as it contained links directing me to many different Flickr photostreams, most for individual Libraries and one to a series of pictures showing the before and after of a refurbished Library.
I discovered as I was searching, that this wiki is listed under the teacher resources on the EDNA site, which rather makes it more of a Teacher's resource, instead of a Library resource. Despite that, the wiki seems to have promise. It has compiled quite a few resource links on various topics associated with making a modern school Library.
A Wiki is essentially an online database of linked webpages, using software that allows people to view and edit individual pages via their web-browsers. The software that powers the pages is called Wiki, thus the name.
The actual word "wiki" is Hawaiian for "fast"; the creator of wiki-technology, Ward Cunningham, talks about the etymology of the term.
It took me a while to find a wiki relating to Libraries or Library tech that really interested me, most of the good ones had alread been snaffled.
I'm going to look at the 21st Century School Library wiki, which I'm finding hard to form a proper citation of, mainly becuase the wiki itself is quite sparse.
http://21cschoollibrary.wikispaces.com/
This wiki seems to have been created by someone named Fran Huges, for whom I can find only a Flickr page. As I mentioned before, the wiki is quite small and seems to consist primarily of links to other places and sources of information, with a small number of videos scattered throughout. Just by looking I can see that most of the information linked to is either for, or from sources within Australian Schools, or topically relavant.
The photos section of the site was one of the more filled out sections and seemed to me to be the most interesting, as it contained links directing me to many different Flickr photostreams, most for individual Libraries and one to a series of pictures showing the before and after of a refurbished Library.
I discovered as I was searching, that this wiki is listed under the teacher resources on the EDNA site, which rather makes it more of a Teacher's resource, instead of a Library resource. Despite that, the wiki seems to have promise. It has compiled quite a few resource links on various topics associated with making a modern school Library.
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