S603 – Emerging Technologies and Libraries

Its been a long time since making a post on the course blog.  Well its that time of year to start getting things together for this years workshop.  The dates on the syllabus have been updated to reflect this upcoming Summer Session I for 2010. If you have any questions please let me know.

In reading though everyones final blog post everyone seemed to enjoy writing a blog throughout the class. Some people even talked about Oncourse and how they proffered using a blog instead. Everyone had the opportunity to create a blog using a free service of their choice and configure it the way they wanted to. In doing so this made it easier for all of us to understand how the blogging software worked and be able to allow comments etc the way we chose to.

Another thing that most everyone mentioned in there final post is that they hope to continue with their blog. This may be hard to do if you do not have a reason, but by keeping a written record of would you do in class might be the motivation to continue. Maybe we should encourage professors and instructors to incorporate the use of blogs in more classes. It would help eliminate the confusion of using Oncourse and giving people the ability to take ownership of what they do. The blog like most people have talked about is a written record of what you have done throughout the class. It will exist for future reference.

If you have not done so you may want to read through what other people have been talking about. I found creating a course blog to be useful because I could easily post additional information that would help people out on there assignments. It was a good experience because like most of you this is the most consistent I have been in keeping up a blog.

Here is the IUCAT record for the Teens, Technology, and Literacy book I talked about in class:
Teens, technology, and literacy [electronic resource] : or, Why bad grammar isn’t always bad
Braun, Linda W.Publisher: Libraries Unlimited,
Pub date: 2007.
Pages: xix, 105 p. :
ISBN: 9780313090714

This is just a reminder to please create a link on your blog to your Mashup when you are finished. Your mashup contains the following items

1. Your Google Map
2. Chat Widget
3. The bookmarks you subscribed to using a Social Bookmarking site
4. A link to your RSS Feed and Blog
5. Optional item – examples include weather report, images from flickr/picasso, twitter posts, etc.
6. Optional item

For the online tutorial paper you will do the writing portion on your blog and turn in the rest of the assignment in on paper.

For example, if your tutorial would be a blog, video, website or flash presentation:

1. write about the audience, subject matter, delivery method on your blog
2. create an outline about the major points and hand it in on a piece of paper (you can choose to just write this up in words if you prefer)
3. draw two sketches that represent two different pages in the website, blog, video or flash presntation.

If you select a podcast replace step 3 above with a short script on how you would introduce the tutorial and what it is about. Such as

We will taking a look at how to create an account in Google Reader and subscribing to a feed. The first thing you will want to do is to goto the following URL:  http://www.google.com/reader. After going here you will want to create an account by …. Yada Yada Yada

Please feel free to use the mashup, I created as a model as you finish yours. Please keep in mind that the example mashup does not have all of the components in it that are required for your assignment. Please take a look at the syllabus for more information. If the social bookmarking web site you used in class does not include a way to display your bookmarks on your mashup feel free to display my bookmarks on your mashup. You can do this by copying and pasting the following html code:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/Patrick?title=My%20Delicious%20Bookmarks&icon=m&count=5&sort=date&tags&extended&name&showadd”>
</script>

If you have an account with delicious here is how you can display your bookmarks on your mashup.

1. Log into delicious
2. select the settings link in the upper right hand corner
3. under the Blogging heading select the tag rolls link
4. copy and paste the html code that appears in the text frame

In addition to creating your mashup you also need to add an additional item tag to your RSS Feed that directs people to your mashup. Here is an example of the XML that, I would need to add to my RSS feed to direct people to my mashup.

<item>

<title>Mashup</title>

<link>http://www.patrickrunfit.com/s603/mashup.html</link>

<description>This is one of the assignments that I created for S603 Emerging Technologies and liberties.</description>

</item>

This code will need to placed directly between the closed </item> and closed </channel> tags of your RSS Feed.

Here is what my complete RSS Feed would look like with two items:

<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>

<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”>
<channel>

<atom:link href=”http://patrickrunfit.com/s603/patrick.xml” rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />

<title>Patrick Patterson</title>

<link>http://www.patrickrunfit.com</link>

<description>My personal website</description>

<item>

<title>Resume</title>

<link>http://patrickrunfit.com/resume.html</link>

<description>Patricks Resume</description>

</item>

<item>

<title>Mashup</title>

<link>http://www.patrickrunfit.com/s603/mashup.html</link>

<description>This is one of the assignments that I created for S603 Emerging Technologies and liberties.</description>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Qi9A7zw3tBw/RZNnol9lbSI/AAAAAAAAAzU/WkOUhFH8f2I/s800/IMG_0539.jpg

Here are some questions you might want to think about when writing up your social bookmarking paper for tomorow.

• Are other people using the same tags that you have used?
• Are other people bookmarking the same sites you have bookmarked?
• Do you think that social bookmarking sites have a use beyond just a holding place for your bookmarks?

During class we will briefly take a look at some mashups and discuss their different components. Each person will randomly select one of the following mashups to explore:

Placeopedia – http://www.placeopedia.com/
Biowizard  -  http://www.biowizard.com
GovTrack http://www.govtrack.us
Chicago crime data  – http://chicago.everyblock.com/crime/
Berkeley-area Doctors – http://www.chaddickerson.com/mashups/doctors/
PubWindows –  http://www.neurotransmitter.net/pubmed_browser.php?topheight=40
Earmark Poupup – http://sunlightlabs.com/ermarks/
Find Pollution – http://www.findpollution.org

After discussing mashups we will create a map using Google Maps and then begin to work on the mashup assignment. You can view a map that I created giving people walking directions from the IU Foundation to the Herman B Wells library.

After creating a map you will than incorporate it into your mashup. Earlier this week we created an HTML page to contain either the zoho or meebo chat widget. You will use this webpage to create your mashup. Please see the syllabus for information.

If you notice an error please let me know. -Patrick

We will be talking about social bookmarking and networking during Wednesdays class. Before diving into these topics we will have a guest speak from the Information Commons Chanitra Bishop. Chanitra has graciously offered to talk about how technology is being used in the Information Commons. After getting an oppurtunity to ask questions we we begin taking a look at social bookmarking websites. After discussing briefly their features and looking at library examples we will start working on the social bookmarking assignment, which is due on Tuesday, May 26.

With having so many social bookmarking websites to look at you will be randomly assigned one to look at from the following:

• delicious
• diigo
• faves
• netvouz
• simpy
• StumbleUpon
• twine

The social networkorking portion of the class we will be discussing how libraries are using these tools and look at some examples. After briefly discussing stoical networking we will split up into three different groups. Each group will create a social networking group for the class on one of the following web sites: facebook, ning, or myspace.

Tuesday in class we will be talking about the electronic reference desk and how it has changed over the course of the past few years and discuss where it is headed. The reference desk has changed in many ways and we are going to explore the variety of different forms of electronic communication that can be used to answer a reference question from people around the world. Virtual Reference can be broken down into several components, but can be referred to as Anytime, Anywhere, Answers or AAA.

In class we are going explore what things are important when providing virtual reference and how it is both similar and different from face-to-face reference questions. It is one thing to talk about the reference process and another to engage in virtual reference. Therefore we will be exploring the following methods of electronic communication:

• E-mail
• Instant Messaging (IM) – we will be using Yahoo Messenger
• Chat – we will be using meebo and zoho
• Twitter

Accounts have already been created for yahoo messenger, meebo, and zoho and they will be given out during class on Tuesday. In order to use meebo and zoho we will need log into the applications and create a chat widget. After creating a widget we will then copy and past the html code into a web page that will be made available on the web.

meebo instructions

• log into meebo
• select preferences –> meebo me widgets
• select “add a new widget” from the new dialog box that opens
• enter a name for your widget
• copy and past “widget embed text” into a web page

Meebo online example: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~papatter/meebo_patrick.html

zoho instructions

• from zoho homepage select zoho chag
• sign in using the yahoo username and password that was created for class
• after loggin in select the “live chat”
• enter a name and title then selet “Generate Code For Embed Chad”
• copy and past code into your web page

Zoho Widget online example: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~papatter/zoho_patrick.html

Here is the HTML code that you can copy and past into a text editor

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>

<head>

<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />

<title>Meebo Chat Widget Example</title>

</head>

<body>

<h3>Meebo Chat Widget Example</h3>

<!– Below This Comment You Will Want to Past the HTML code you copied from either meebo or zoho -!->

</body>

</html>