Wednesday, April 1, 2009

CIL 2009 Day 3 - Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Outreach

This session had several interesting ideas. The first half of the presentation focused largely (although not entirely) on the use of videos and video technology for educational purposes in an academic environment. The specifics of how the library (in this case the libraries at Ohio University) used videos is not particularly applicable to a public library, but the basic idea I think could be quite useful. The possibilities for making online video tutorials for certain kinds of online services available could be quite useful.

In the second half of the presentation the use of Flickr to post PowerPoint presentations was described. This is a clever solution to a particular kind of problem which could be useful, but I don't anticipate any particular application for this in the near future.

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