Musing Over Thing 4

I have just completed all four tasks for Thing 4. Firstly I was amazed to gain access to all of the websites without being blocked, so thank you IT.

This set of tasks seemed more involved than previous tasks which has been enjoyable. I have liked looking for videos, photos and presentations. I was not aware of Prezi and I did not realise that Flickr had creative commons picture that anyone can use. 

I had used YouTube previously but had never really searched for educational content. I was quite impressed with what I found.

I was disappointed to discover that any presentations uploaded to slideshare or Prezi would be public and the only to make them private was to subscribe. I thought this was cheeky and would most likely put people off using the sites. I think the author of the content reserves the right to control access and that should be a basic.

I can imagine that with these sites and similar ones plagiarism is common as it becomes so easy to do. This could be more tightly controlled if the sites allowed permissions and sharing controls as a basic.

I thought all of the sites were easy to use and navigate and I do intend to use them again now that I am aware of them.

Flickr

I have been having a roam around Flickr and found a cute picture that reminds me that I must buy a coat for my Cocker Spaniel. Yes I know this has nothing to do with libraries but it has brightened my Friday afternoon :0)

http://flic.kr/p/7tDULm

You Tube

I found a series of videos produced by Nottingham University. The videos are teaching videos about Psychiatric interviews for different disorders. These would be great for my user group.

Prezi example

I found an example of a presentation that might be of interest to my users:

http://prezi.com/4q5wsgwfo_xk/psychiatry-critical-appraisal-of-a-topic/?kw=view-4q5wsgwfo_xk&rc=ref-25717939

This presentation uses lots of animation that does make you feel a bit sick. However I think it is very good and an interesting way of presenting information rather than the traditional static PowerPoint.

Prezi

My presentation dabbling on Prezi:

http://prezi.com/iswq-dpu_74q/getting-to-know-prezi/?kw=view-iswq-dpu_74q&rc=ref-25717939

SlideShare

I have uploaded a very old presentation that I found about searching Dialog. So if anyone remembers the Dialog days you can reminisce.

If anyone wishes to view the presentation it can be found at:

<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/15370140" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/srichards79/searching-medline-stacey-richards" title="Searching Medline Using Dialog " target="_blank">Searching Medline Using Dialog </a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/srichards79" target="_blank">srichards79</a></strong> </div>

Wiki

I have used Google to try and find examples of Wiki's and I have to say it's not as easy as it seems. Google has returned a lot of results for pages about Wiki's rather than actual Wiki's.

I managed to find one reasonable Wiki that may be of interest to my user group:

http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Ganfyd.org is a free medical knowledge base that anyone can read and any registered medical practitioner may edit. I have checked some of the pages and they have been updated recently which is a good sign as it means that the Wiki is still active and not abandoned.