First of all I’m going to include the links to our group’s wiki that includes the final version of the powerpoint:
http://youtubeproject.pbwiki.com/
A link to the youtube video is right there in the powerpoint.
I want to start off by saying that I had a moment of panic the other day, thinking that my blog entries have been too anecdotal and not analytical enough. I hope that’s not the case. I’m still a bit worried about that. I’m so used to my informal, personal blogging style that it was difficult for me to switch it up to something academic.
That being said, I want to state here how much I enjoyed this class and how much i learned from the class. Like one of our classmates said yesterday during our class discussion, prior to this class, I thought of library 2.0 as more about the technology rather than the philosophy behind it. For example, I liked what we talked about in regards to gaming at the library and how it’s not just about the actual gaming, but the interactions between the people–that people help each other and interact in other ways while they are participating in these gaming programs and the idea of the third place. I think I need to bring that up to some of my co-workers (not librarians, I might add) who are always making snide remarks about our library’s gaming program, although I think some will still not be convinced.
Another thing I learned in this class, is how inept I am with gaming technology. As an older gen. Xer, I was an early adopter with the Internet, so I feel like my comfort level and my experience with the web is more on par with those of gen. Y, but gaming is a whole other story for me. When I was a kid we had an Atari and I do have a Gameboy now, but I’ve never had a real gaming system and most of my friends don’t have them either. I really felt like an old-timer when I was trying out the Wii for the first time and hit the Wii crowd with the bowling ball. I think when I have a bit of extra money (perhaps after I finally do my taxes!) I will have to invest in a Wii. As someone who wants to be a public librarian, I need to have a good understanding of how these things work in order to understand and reach a large segment of the community.
Finally, as we had to make a video for our group project, even though Jakub shot our video (and did a fantastic job, I might add), I wanted to play around with video making myself, so I got one of those flip video cameras that one of my classmates brought in (that was another great thing about this class–that we shared information AND technology with each other) and have been making my own videos. I haven’t uploaded anything to youtube yet, but I’m sure I will eventually. I have played around with windows moviemaker and edited some video, but this is one I did just by plugging the video into the flip video software and it created a dance mix for me. I figured that since I used the photo of my cat on top of my door for my user pic. that this video was fitting:
http://s257.photobucket.com/albums/hh202/rhinogal/?action=view¤t=dancemixphoebe.flv
I also wanted to say how much I enjoyed my classmates’ presentations! Everyone came up with some very informative and creative stuff. And I want to thank Michael for the great class!
