Category Archives for Instruction
Understanding YouTube
Recently, I gave a presentation on YouTube at mpow. It was a lot of fun and I even had the audience attempt to do the wave for a short video I uploaded. At the start of the class, only about … Continue reading
TechMunchies: Best Websites of 2008
Had our first TechMunchies event today. TechMunchies is a new staff training series at my library to help staff get comfortable with technology in an easy-going, informal setting. It’s a lunch-time series, so staff can bring food and eat and … Continue reading
Too Good to Be True?
Just learned about these free software cheatsheets and initially thought that it was too good to be true. Then I started downloading them and from what I can tell, they’re great and there’s no catch to using them. You don’t … Continue reading
Who’s Craig and what’s this list of his?
I taught a class called ”Using Craigslist to Buy, Rent, Sell and More” tonight and it went well. One student brought a souvenir book from the 1st Taste of Chicago in 1977. She created an ad for it and posted … Continue reading
RSS Feeds 101
I’ve incorporated RSS into classes on blogs and blogging in the past, but tonight I taught a class focusing on RSS, aggregators, and ways you can use RSS beyond subscribing to blogs. I covered a lot of different examples, including … Continue reading