... now coming full circle from beginning this blog with a little personal story about a gentle,beloved grandmother's history- a castle somewhere in the past, past.
VERY little information was ever mentioned by Gram of "the castle"- In fact, I didn't hear about it till a recent trip to Scotland by one of her sons to find the castle. Not much left of it--- but Web is fantistic--- another traveller gives us a brief glimpse on YouTube- of Tioram.
Web 2.0 ? --I'm hooked.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Podcasting stories
Now I'm on a roll- backwards! (in the RULA Learning program). I skipped blogging for a while . It's cool though- 'cause things keep changing, getting better..
Take podcasting/itunes , for example. CBC has been my first, and still favourite podcasting experience. I grew up in a home that listening to radio was like breathing - constant.
Because podcasts are archived for a short duration on CBC site- it made sense to subscribe to the auto downloading of latest "Writers & Co." or ESL podcasts. _'till my little home pc exploded with maybe over load- not sure, but needless to say I did not get to listen to all the previous Eleanor Wachtel episodes.
Now with a zippier PC I can capture more content AND good news- Q:the podcast (Q with Jian Ghomeshi) is now --- a VODcast-- - who can complain about seeing JG. himself, live , in colour (well not quite live but certainly in colour). Check it (him) out in bold TV "..full length interviews with celebrities and personalities in the worlds of arts, culture and entertainment". A previous episode, now available on Youtube,
Q: The Video Podcast
Podcasts are great for adding to you i-pod for travel listening so, Jian's April 6th podcast.
Take podcasting/itunes , for example. CBC has been my first, and still favourite podcasting experience. I grew up in a home that listening to radio was like breathing - constant.
Because podcasts are archived for a short duration on CBC site- it made sense to subscribe to the auto downloading of latest "Writers & Co." or ESL podcasts. _'till my little home pc exploded with maybe over load- not sure, but needless to say I did not get to listen to all the previous Eleanor Wachtel episodes.
Now with a zippier PC I can capture more content AND good news- Q:the podcast (Q with Jian Ghomeshi) is now --- a VODcast-- - who can complain about seeing JG. himself, live , in colour (well not quite live but certainly in colour). Check it (him) out in bold TV "..full length interviews with celebrities and personalities in the worlds of arts, culture and entertainment". A previous episode, now available on Youtube,
Q: The Video Podcast
Podcasts are great for adding to you i-pod for travel listening so, Jian's April 6th podcast.
Commentary for catchup week
Thinking Spring and flowers and birds twittering--- well not exactly as described in Toronto today! But I wanted to back up to a couple of previously untried parts of the social web- Twitter. My experience today resulted in many attempts to both set up an account and to respond to a Chemistry related social space - I guess it is a busy day for tweet, tweet --- I keep getting a message: "Twitter is over capacity".
I know I'll get in if I persist...
I know I'll get in if I persist...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Cooliris add-on
Kind of cool... good to find photos.I've added this to my EI Browser. Still, I think,this app will need a bit more time and intervention and some [simpler?] techniques to be of real value for me. The links to the indicated page for the image are not always reliable (using IE). My experience so far shows better results with Firefox. Quick and easy acess to Youtube content for Margaret MacMillan content search using Cooliris
Was reliable on on Cooliris test!
Was reliable on on Cooliris test!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Social networks
Networking is one of my favourite passtimes. I have a preference for the in-person kind, rather than virtually. However, there are excellent reasons for virtual connections -- common interests being the most immediate one that comes to meme.(mind thought)
For the purpose of RULA- I MAY have a couple of "new' friends on Facebook.... but , what if they reject me... oh dear. There is probably an interest network for "therapy sessions for rejected on Facebook"... or I may start one.
probably however, I will simply move on to the next area of interest.
Ok- on to the next Web 2.0 experience. yippee
For the purpose of RULA- I MAY have a couple of "new' friends on Facebook.... but , what if they reject me... oh dear. There is probably an interest network for "therapy sessions for rejected on Facebook"... or I may start one.
probably however, I will simply move on to the next area of interest.
Ok- on to the next Web 2.0 experience. yippee
Friday, March 6, 2009
Google add-ons and walking
Great fun with Google.
Group edited documents with colleagues was cool. Check out where we would like to travel--
And yes, of course we can travel with Google Earth and see street views of cities on our travel lists. (the SAT images are quite a marvel also!)
i've mapped some routes for our RU_N -Amok (sea to sea race).
I'm clocking my kms and hope our team wins the race (or at least places in the top 10!).
MEANWHILE, WALKING in Toronto; THINKING about Scottish Castles
Group edited documents with colleagues was cool. Check out where we would like to travel--
And yes, of course we can travel with Google Earth and see street views of cities on our travel lists. (the SAT images are quite a marvel also!)
i've mapped some routes for our RU_N -Amok (sea to sea race).
I'm clocking my kms and hope our team wins the race (or at least places in the top 10!).
MEANWHILE, WALKING in Toronto; THINKING about Scottish Castles
a sample from my Flickr Photos
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Delicious and tagging
Catch up week- good idea... I had skipped the delicious activity and am now delicioused-out. I've social book-marked and tagged (with RULA20, of course) a selection of sites that may have value to me for Ryerson reasons. Very little overlap with other RULA 2.0er's choices. Some of the sites I go to frequently and a few are there just in case..The value is that the deleicious bookmarks follow me wherever I am.(as long as I remember my delicious login of course!).
cool app. overall.
cool app. overall.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
LibraryThing Activity Day
I've had some fun with LibraryThing. It (LThing) can also eat up some time.
I have created a PEIsland Collecton from my home bookshelf, adding tags and comments and uploading covers (using my camera in some instances). I like the simplicity and flexibility of adding custom headings/tags and comments.I like the potential of LibraryThing- keep track of books you've read, books to read,
I've created , from existing sources, a Margaret McMillan collection, in advance of her visit with us on March 24th. Link to Margaret Collection: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/zita2
I will continue to use LThing for some apps and MAY even upgrade to the lifetime membership.(for a fee)
I have created a PEIsland Collecton from my home bookshelf, adding tags and comments and uploading covers (using my camera in some instances). I like the simplicity and flexibility of adding custom headings/tags and comments.I like the potential of LibraryThing- keep track of books you've read, books to read,
I've created , from existing sources, a Margaret McMillan collection, in advance of her visit with us on March 24th. Link to Margaret Collection: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/zita2
I will continue to use LThing for some apps and MAY even upgrade to the lifetime membership.(for a fee)
Monday, February 9, 2009
Castle Tioram at Low Tide
Taken when Unlce Leo (Sullivan) visited in a recent summer trip with family
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Tioram
Doing a bit of Flickr-time today. I have found a surprising number of hits for my little Scottish castle project.
This photo is a nice one that gives a perspective of Tioram, surrounded by water and looking almost sunny! I found this one from a Creative Commons site on Flickr. I selected it 'cause it is framed in one of the ways I like (a little filtering of surrounding landscape).
I will contribute from my personal (family) photos also.
The possibilities of Flickr are staggering... in fact one can stagger into some serious territory here. whew, boy.
A pratical use of Flickr: using shared images for spicing up a Ryerson Library webpage .
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Zitawikis
I really must remind myself of keeping wiki fed.... and brag about it.....ok, that should be BLOG about it.
So, bogging along:
Today, I added one entry to recipes library wiki--- uploaded an image taken with my camera (in my kitchen for inspiration).
Ideas? on wiki applications--- use wiki to create meeting agendas (Library Council, for example) ?
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So, bogging along:
Today, I added one entry to recipes library wiki--- uploaded an image taken with my camera (in my kitchen for inspiration).
Ideas? on wiki applications--- use wiki to create meeting agendas (Library Council, for example) ?
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
RRS FEEDING TODAY
Nothing better to do? or do you have a learning objective to complete? Wander around in blogging land. You'll know then that there are lots of learning opportunities and lots of time wasters. ... the beauty is you can choose. A few that I selected are listed here: http://www.bloglines.com/public/zitafeedsblog
If we can encourage students and faculty to "check out" Library web pages, then there is indeed value in adding and promoting Library feeds in more ways .
Monday, January 12, 2009
Tioram stories and connections?
Tioram--- castle almost in the sky....
Intersted in sharing information on a Scottish castle ?
Many stories are yet to be heard. A story that we recently uncovered is that my grandmother's family was connected in some way to Castle Tioram, ruins located on west coast of Scotland. Commonly, Toiram is identified as the ancestral home of Clan Randanald. My Gram , was a branch off the old MacDonad family tree. So you can imagine the pathways that such a story can take one, tracng the Macdonalds from highland Scotland to shores of PEIsland.
bibliographic references (hey, I'm a librarian!) to follow.... and photos.
(Zita,blogger novice)
Intersted in sharing information on a Scottish castle ?
Many stories are yet to be heard. A story that we recently uncovered is that my grandmother's family was connected in some way to Castle Tioram, ruins located on west coast of Scotland. Commonly, Toiram is identified as the ancestral home of Clan Randanald. My Gram , was a branch off the old MacDonad family tree. So you can imagine the pathways that such a story can take one, tracng the Macdonalds from highland Scotland to shores of PEIsland.
bibliographic references (hey, I'm a librarian!) to follow.... and photos.
(Zita,blogger novice)
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