Create Your Own Video

As an optional activity I created a video of my grandson coloring Easter eggs and uploaded it to YouTube. It was fairly simple, logging on to YouTube with my Google account, filling out additional information and then uploading the video from my personal home computer. The upload did take several minutes. Here it is

YouTube Video Review

The Columbus, Nebraska Public Library created an excellent promotional video. A statement from the About This Video page on YouTube says "A pop-up book combining digital still images and live footage in 3 dimensional space". The young narrator speaks in a distinct voice describing the variety of materials and services offered by the library. The length of the video seemed to be appropriate for the information they were trying to share. Check it out!

YouTube Video Review

The Columbus, Nebraska Public Library created an excellent promotional video for a public library. A statement from the About This Video on the YouTube page says "a pop-up book combining digital still images and live footage in 3 dimensional space". The young narrator mentions what materials and services they offer at the library. Check it out

Podcasting

This activity has not been an easy one for me. First of all I had great difficulty thinking of something to say in a podcast. Having made my decision and after reading and watching video tutorials I was finally able to create my podcast as an mp3 file on my personal computer but I could not figure out after rereading and rewatching videos and creating a Feedburner account how to get the file from my personal computer into my blog. I finally used the HELP on blogger.com, created a MoveDigital account and hope this works. The link to my podcast is http://www.movedigital.com/go/geolmary/113464/Blue2.0pocast.mp3

Creating photos

I've used a digital camera for quite some time but only stored the photos on my own computer. I now have a bit of experience using Flickr. After uploading six photos I changed the layout, added comments to all, and added a note to one. One of my son's would be so proud! My photos can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24727355@N04/
One use of this image hosting site for the Geological Sciences Library/Maps Collection could be to keep our primary patrons up-to-date on the renovation of King Library Addition for the Science Library. I have photos taken before work started and could upload those as well as upload photos taken during the renovation process.

Clone yourself

I had a lot of fun creating a weemee! I wanted to place it in the profile section of my blog but after numerous unsuccessful attempts I settled for just placing it as a blog post. Then I wasn't happy with that so I removed it. Then I decided to put it back. Decisions, decisions...

Advanced Blogging

I needed to "jazz up" my basic blog so I experimented with adding a picture to the header, adding other pictures, changing text size, changing some text colors and edited posts by adding titles. I tried unsuccessfully to put an avatar in my profile.