5 Free Screencasting Apps

5 Free Screencasting Apps

Top 10 Online Video Conversion Services

Top 10 Online Video Conversion Services

Booklet Creator

While surfing through the many, many blogs I read, I came across another "potentially" helpful online tool. It is BookletCreator. Basically it takes a PDF document and creates a booklet from that file.

It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages you get a small book.

Click here to see how it works.

Here is the original link.

Blogger Spell Check is Now Working

Looks like they fixed the problem...for now.

Blogger Tips

I found a list of "Top 10 Blogger Hacks and Tips"on a helpful Internet resource called: MakeUseOf.com

The site contains plenty of other useful information as well. Check it out!

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-blogger-hacks-and-tips/

Wish We Had Thought of This

Madonna's "Ray of Light"


St. Joseph County Public Library's "Ray of Light"

February 29, 2008

Any ideas for leap day?

Once every four years, it seems ripe for a blog post or something. It could be just a FYI about the intercalary year or maybe some book/program tie-in?

Spell Check Isn't Working in Blogger

FYI, just in case you haven't noticed, spell check in Blogger hasn't been working for some time. For a while I thought, "Wow, I sure am a greeaaat speller!," but that sadly isn't the case. Just be sure to triple-check for typos before posting to the blog. And any Admins can feel free to correct any typos they see.

Thagg Reads It Forward

Here is a Thagg video for Read it Forward & Project Mockingbird. Comments welcome before it goes "public."

Allen County Public Library Virtual Tours

Take a look at how ACPL did their virtual tours:

http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/virtualtour/GreatHall.html

Virtual Tours

Ms. Sirmans would like our group to take up the project of creating virtual tours of each location and department. Those of you who are interested in participating please let me know and let me know what aspect of the project you are interested in. I anticipate the need for photos, video, text, audio, graphics, and software. So if any of these categories spark your creative juices, let me know.

Also, I just read about SketchUp, a 3D modeling tool from Google that we may be able to use. If someone is interested in experimenting with it, that would be great. Here is the link to the information I came across.

Another excellent L2 idea takes shape

After the meeting last week (a most productive one if I do say so myself), Tressa emailed me with a brilliant idea. She suggested we (more like I) record podcasts of the Board members giving their reflections on To Kill A Mockinbird. (And if that mockingbird don't sing, Hunter's gonna buy you a diamond ring...). Anyway, here is the news (and I ain't talkin Huey Lewis) so far:

Today, I, Hunter Murphy, of sound mind and body, recorded two of the podcasts for The Big Read, from both Kelsey and Matt Layne. They are excellent representations of the power of the novel. One of the readings comes during Atticus' final speech to the jury where he discusses how the courtroom is the only place in society where all men are created equal. Then, the second section is where Scout tells of her daddy saying it's a "sin to kill a mockingbird." Both these sections touch on (if not fully represent) the themes in the book, about the spiritual, moral, and social dilemmas of the pre-Civil Rights society and I think it will be an excellent place to introduce the BPL Board members' reflections. It's shaping up to be an excellent project and I thought you would be interested to hear about it.

Thagg Gets ILL - A Rough Cut

Here is a rough cut of the ILL video. Some editing is still needed before going public. After the edits, the video will accompany Erick's ILL map and a link to Ill’s webpage in a blog post.

Any edits needed or suggestions?

January Statistics

Here are the January statistics for the different projects we work on. Thanks Hunter for the suggestion to make this available to the crew.


Cumulative statistics for podcasts:
Jan 2008
Number of podcasts 19
number of downloads 176
number of items streamed 347
combined total 523

Cumulative statistics for YouTube:
January 2008
videos 30
videos viewed cumulative 16375
subscribers 28
channel views 4113

Cumulative statistics for blip.tv:
January 2008
Videos 3
videos viewed cumulative 321

Cumulative statistics for flickr:
Total site views 27294
photo views cumulative 60708
photostream views cumulative 27281
photo sets cumulative views 4524
combined cumulative view total 92513

Cumulative statistics for Slideshare (PowerPoint presentations:)
January 2008
Number of slideshows 7
Number of views cumulative 2209

BPL News Blog:
January 2008
Average daily number of visitors 54
Average daily number of visits 62
Aggregate item views 668 views of 59 items
Email subscribers 62
RSS subscribers 33
Blog entries 19 by 4 different staff members

Video: Wikis in plain English

I found a great video that explains in simple terms what a wiki is and how it works. It may be of use for those of you having to explain wikis to staff members.

http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english




Created by Common Craft

Minutes Online for 29 Jan. 2008

We came up with some good ideas during our meeting and I hope we will be able to implement many of them.

Please read and edit. Thanks!