你們都是超級學生

Yes. I perfectly agree with Nancy. The judges will have a hard time as all the entries are of superb quality - 極高水平的製作.

Every bit of your contributions in the wiki Collaboration Page is so enjoyable. I cannot help from LOL (Facebook language for “Laugh Out Loud”). 你們的分享,令我們覺得又開心又驚喜.

總之,你們都是超級學生(Super-student): Serious, hardworking and painstakingly careful to every tiny bit of detail. So, a big applause to each of you!

Antonia

Hurray! We did it!

We will soon start our community rating for the best video, photo & blog awards.

I am sure it should be a harsh task for our judges because all of yours are valuable and interesting.

We really appreciate all of your effort and contributions to make this web 2.0 training an amazing experience to us all. We hope that you will find this program fun and useful!

Once again, congratualtions!

Yes, we did it! Hurray! Hurray!

Nancy

A short poem for week 5

Library photos shared on Flickr,
Carry many of your familiar faces.
Poise, yet oozing with youngness and vigour,
Leading our users through the information mazes.

The photos make our hearts grow fonder,
Of all the people, stories and places.
With Web 2.0 tools, we explore and ponder
Capturing our memories as technology embraces.

Week 4: Sharing your VIP Interview

This week, the VIP interview videos uploaded to YouTube will enter into the Best Video Award. 掌聲鼓勵! 拍拍, 拍拍...

After viewing some of your videos, we really appreciate the great effort in sharing your valuable memories with us. 極之精彩! It is also exciting to find our Share Your Memory @ HKUL Wiki Page enriched with more collaborative content. This is the the exact spirit of Knowledge Sharing!

From our own experience, we find that it would be useful and convenient to have a camera stand when recording the interview. 腳架回定了攝錄機或相機之後, 在錄影時, 我們大可專心訪問. If you have not yet recorded yours, you may wish to try this as well. Don't worry, you may borrow a camera stand from AV Department.

We look forward to viewing all the videos soon. 期待更多的驚喜和興奮!

Web 2.0 Seminar by Dr Bob Fox

There was a big crowd at yesterday's Web 2.0 seminar. We had to add extra chairs along the aisles to accommodate the avid learners.

Dr. Bob Fox gave an overview of the prominent Web2.0 tools and showed a number of good practices in teaching and learning. You might find some of the tools familiar (e.g. Wiki, RSS, Twitter), while some others new (e.g. Wordle, Newsy, Streetview in Google map). I hope this seminar has brought you a recollection of the tools covered so far in this training programme, yet opens up new horizons in other Web 2.0 tools out there.

The powerpoint presentation has been uploaded to Slideshare, another Web 2.0 tool, which allows sharing ppt, doc or pdf files for public or private access.

At the occasion, the Librarian presented a commemorative book plates to Dr Fox a token of thanks. The book title is Wired for learning: an educator’s guide to Web 2.0. Perhaps you may be interested to read this book sometime:)

The Challenging Week 3

充滿挑戰的第三周 - Some of you found Week 3 materials challenging, yet useful in the future. Well... perhaps that is a good sign because there is substance in what you learn and the tools are practical for future application:)

兩個小貼示 - Just two quick tips on perfecting your skills in the use of these tools:

1. When importing the calendar to the blog, you can test out the size of the calendar. The dimension indicated in our quick guide is 550 x 400 pixels, which shows the entire calendar on my computer. But, for some of you, the dimension could be too large. With this, you will not be able to show the "Agenda" option (on the far right hand side of the calendar) which allows you to show only dates with events, a very handy feature.


2. Adding Google Blog to your iGoogle Homepage. Most of you will find that the page goes blank after clicking on the "Add it Now" button. For blogger, you will need to do one extra step. Tips are as follows:
   (a) Enter "Embed blogger" to search for the gadget.
   (b) Click on "Add it Now" button.
   (c) Return to your iGoogle.
   (d) On the top right hand corner of the window for Blogger, click on the down arrow icon. And then, select "Edit settings".
   (e) Enter the URL of your blogger address.

誰是你的專訪貴賓? By talking with some of you, we note that there has been quite a bit of excitement when inviting the Library VIPs - "Who will be able to provide a captivating story?" "Will this colleague be willing to accept my invitation?" - Our training team was able to feel the pulse and excitement too! You know, it has been an exciting experience to unveil who's the Library VIP from each of your Google Documents. We do look forward to the interview and watch the stories on Youtube in the coming week! 這個星期會更精彩 !

Twitter 好玩嗎?

Did you have fun with Twitter?

星期二的分享會, 我們玩了兩個twitter遊戲 . In this warm-up game on Tuesday sharing session, we administered two games – hangman and date guess of a library event. Some of our participants played on-site in the e-Lab while others communicated with us from their office. Many of us were engrossed in the games. The word for hangman was a simple word, yet surprisingly difficult to guess. It took us quite some time to figure out what it is. The date guess seems a bit easier. Participants were able to swiftly nail down to a particular month and then the date.

星期四安排了真正的twitter遊戲. Each of the real twitter games on Thursday was completed within half an hour. This probably reflects that colleagues, having gone through the warm-up games, have mastered their twitter skills. And, apparently, this also shows that colleagues are familiar with the library and are aware of library events. If you would like to know who the winners are, please visit http://twitter.com/memory_hkul, or check out your Google Reader where you have set up the RSS for this twitter account.

Through playing the twitter games last week, we hope you’ve become more familiar with what microblogging is. Twitter is fun to use. Yet it also serves a practical communication tool for you to quickly send or receive updates.

We will be moving on to Week 3, which will focus on 3 Google products. The tools are very practical and will help facilitate you to share different kinds of information. So, have a nice week ahead!