This is my citation for the FRBR Blog. this post will be very similar to the last one on the FRBR blog, but condensed and with the proper citation.
William Denton, 2005, The FRBR Blog, viewed 5th July 2010, < http://www.frbr.org/ >
Despite this blogs simple layout it is a pain to navigate around, if only because there is so much of it. The normally useful navigation bar on the left hand side has been packed with so much information, as well as the standard blog stuff, that it takes a while find something unless you already know exactly where it is. With that said, the information on the navigation bar is really quite useful, offering links to web documents, books and other sites all to help with the understanding of FRBR. The content of the blog itself is just as impenetrable as FRBR, at least to someone like myself who is only just beginning to learn about all of this, as it talks about manifestations and entities like they were old-hat; which, considering that FRBR has been around since 1998 and probably longer, to some it is.
The author and webmaster of the blog is William Denton, who is the web Librarian at York University. His entry in the Librarian's profile section of York University's site has a link to his personal blog, which in turn has a link to the FRBR blog. Unfortunately I couldn't find a link to the FRBR blog from the York University site, which would have made it's authority so much stronger. He seems to be quite knowledgeable and on top of the latest news concerning changes to cataloguing and has had a paper concerning that very topic published online by Libraries Unlimited. I think this site would be most useful for someone who already knows something or even a lot about FRBR and upcoming changes to cataloguing but due to the wealth of information and links links to information and other informative sites this site stands strong as a resource for anyone interested in the topic.
-Piff
Monday, July 5, 2010
Videos on TeacherTube
Yes, another 'Tube!!
Jason Smith, 2007, Super Sock Monkey uses the library Catalogue, viewed 5th July 2010 (date of first viewing unknown), < http://www.teachertube.com/ >
At first glance TeacherTube is very similar to other video sharing sites, which is not surprising as most of them are modelled off of YouTube and each other. However, TeacherTube can not only host other media such as documents, photos and audio recordings, it had dedicated itself to hosting teacher and learning resources. This is useful in a number of ways. As an independent website, TeacherTube can be used by anyone around the world, from any school or other education facility, which offers users a wide range of resources that they may not have had access to before. It also offers the Teachers who use it a place to host informative videos for their students that is not a site used wholesale by the Internet public for dumping their video content.
The website is the brainchild of Jason Smith, who at the time had 14 years of experience working on various levels of public schools. It is, from what I can see, a family-run site; created and developed by Jason, his wife (who also has education experience) and his brother (who is the site Webmaster). The only problem that i could find with the site was that it had advertisements on it, but this is a free sign-up site and the advertisements are not greatly intrusive.
The video that I viewed was entitled Super Sock Monkey Uses the Library Catalogue. the reason i chose it was mainly because the title interested me but also because the video is aimed at the younger students of an elementary school (like primary school), trying to teach them about the Library catalogue, using the sock monkey characters (of which there are quite a few videos). This is a technique used by a lot of children's television shows that are focused on education. I thought it was a useful video, even though it's really aimed at the students of one school, because it shows just one way that Librarians and Library workers can make a connection with young children and teach them some of what they need to use the Library.
- Piff
Jason Smith, 2007, Super Sock Monkey uses the library Catalogue, viewed 5th July 2010 (date of first viewing unknown), < http://www.teachertube.com/ >
At first glance TeacherTube is very similar to other video sharing sites, which is not surprising as most of them are modelled off of YouTube and each other. However, TeacherTube can not only host other media such as documents, photos and audio recordings, it had dedicated itself to hosting teacher and learning resources. This is useful in a number of ways. As an independent website, TeacherTube can be used by anyone around the world, from any school or other education facility, which offers users a wide range of resources that they may not have had access to before. It also offers the Teachers who use it a place to host informative videos for their students that is not a site used wholesale by the Internet public for dumping their video content.
The website is the brainchild of Jason Smith, who at the time had 14 years of experience working on various levels of public schools. It is, from what I can see, a family-run site; created and developed by Jason, his wife (who also has education experience) and his brother (who is the site Webmaster). The only problem that i could find with the site was that it had advertisements on it, but this is a free sign-up site and the advertisements are not greatly intrusive.
The video that I viewed was entitled Super Sock Monkey Uses the Library Catalogue. the reason i chose it was mainly because the title interested me but also because the video is aimed at the younger students of an elementary school (like primary school), trying to teach them about the Library catalogue, using the sock monkey characters (of which there are quite a few videos). This is a technique used by a lot of children's television shows that are focused on education. I thought it was a useful video, even though it's really aimed at the students of one school, because it shows just one way that Librarians and Library workers can make a connection with young children and teach them some of what they need to use the Library.
- Piff
Me on YouTube
After a lot of strain, my video was finally uploaded.
Here it is
(I haven't watched it becuase I really don't like seeing myself in videos.)
-Piff
Here it is
(I haven't watched it becuase I really don't like seeing myself in videos.)
-Piff
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