YouTube, Podcasts and Other Obsessions

 

 

Here is the opening of each Mr. Dressup show as well as the final 10 minutes of the last show produced (but it continued to be aired for years after). I have many good memories of watching Mr. Dressup in my day. I guess I've just dated myself. Aaaaahhhh.....

 



 

 

 

 

Next I tried to open a podcast in the Booklist Webinar Online and had no success in being able to open a couple of them. I did have success with opening one of the TED talks and actually summarized the points but threw it out after I read that I was supposed to do a library based podcast. I then asked one of the Team23 members and they told me I could use anything. So now I'm going to try to remember the main points from the summary I threw out. The topic was titled: "Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)". It was extremely interesting, inspiring and informative. This sweeping, optimistic talk charts 30 years of tactics and technologies -- from the Polaroid camera to social media -- that led to a 64% drop in domestic violence in the U.S. When Esta Soler lobbied for a bill outlawing domestic violence in 1984, one politician called it the "Take the Fun Out of Marriage Act". In 1994, Esta Soler convinced Congress to pass a law to combat the devastating effects of violence against women.  Today, her mission is global. She says that it's not about building more jails or shelters but in educating people, especially men about the impact of violence on women. Children need to be protected and healed. Ad campaigns are extremely effective and in this media driven age have a greater impact than what they were able to do 20-30 years ago.

http://www.ted.com/talks/esta_soler_how_we_turned_the_tide_on_domestic_violence_hint_the_polaroid_helped.html

Tried to embed the podcast from the TED talk but copying and pasting the URL is the best I can do. I don't know how to place it on my clipboard as they instructed. Whether or not you can open it from my blog is yet to be seen.

 

I didn't bother with the Video Conferencing because I already Skype with my sister every two weeks. It's opened up an awesome world for us and it's saving us a few pennies on long distance calling too!

 

Pinterest

Pinterest is a pretty fun way to find images and information. I found it easy to sign up but it took a while to figure out the rest of the steps. Creating a board was fine once I discovered where to click to bring it up - it was somewhat different from the instructions. I had to use my iPad to do this step as the administrative computer needed the admin to get through the firewall. Now I have an app for Pinterest on my iPad so maybe I'll use it more. I created about 4 boards and am following about 10 or more people, including libraries. I've run out of time to do the "extra cool thing" but maybe I'll get back to that someday soon.

Images

Images

Using images from the web has always been a worrisome thing so this lesson is good. But difficult. I'm going to try posting an image from Wikimedia Commons right now, right here.



"Cat with Book", 28 November 2004,
CC image, courtesy of Danny Ayers from Mozzanella, Italy (Amazon for cats #2) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

I hope I did this right. I read some of the stuff related to licensing of this image but it's overwhelming. I'm not sure that I covered reading and doing everything I needed to read and do. Can this be confirmed? HELP!!

After that last exercise, Wordle was awesome, fun and easy. Wondering if the image can be copied/cut and pasted into a Word document?? or just printed or published in Wordle? I've seen Wordle images in documents so I'm guessing it can be done. I never tried it, but perhaps Team23 can let me know.

Memes - have been curious about this for some time but never bothered to ask as I figured the answer would surface in time. Now I know.



That's all for now folks!