Looking back on the course, I think for me the highlights were working with the screenshots, telling a story, and making a Google map and creating a Netvibes website. I now am creating the map with a different program, called CommunityWalk, since they have the capacity to display more than one photo of a location. I was also stymied since I wanted to link to site descriptions in the Texas Historical commissions, and if I copied the URL in the address bar, it would only be read by the Google interface as the address for the Atlas itself, the search page for the descriptions. Our IT person told me I could use "copy image location" to fix that problem. I'm happy about the map and I also liked the digital story very much. I didn't like music behind images, but narration seems to be great way to tap into people's experiences and stories. I think it would be great if we had kiosks up at the front of the library and people could tap on them and hear someone talk about how the library enabled them in some part of their lives.
Creating the page on Netvibes helped me to get more experience with RSS feeds and creating widgets, and seeing how they worked on a day to day basis and whether they made sense for me. I am exploring webpage coding now and believe this will help my goal to have some proficiency and understanding in this area, since I am not involved in our library's website.
An unexpected outcome was learning about the sites which create a virtual resume for you...there certainly seemed to be some pros and cons with those...con in that you had to be careful about your online privacy, but pros in the ease of accessibility and being able to track your job hunting online.
I appreciated taking this program, and would like to participate in similar ones in the future.
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