{"id":4167,"date":"2011-05-27T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T09:09:04","slug":"blogs-twitter-wikis-and-other-on-line-tools-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=4167","title":{"rendered":"Blogs, Twitter, Wikis and other on-line tools: the movie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"4167\">\n<p>Libraries (and librarians) are evolving rapidly. Thus a week or so ago one of our dynamic librarians here, approached some PhD students and academics to ask them how they used &#8220;<em>Web 2.0<\/em>&#8221; (thanks Jenny!). The result was edited (thanks John!) and uploaded, where you can see it below (embedded in this post, I might add, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.esimplestudios.com\/2010\/08\/embedding-vimeo-videos-in-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">using HTML5<\/a>). No doubt there is more of this genre to come. Libraries nowadays it seems, are not just about books and journals, but about the full digital experience (not to mention sustenance; ours is now one of the more popular places for students to eat!).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blogs, Twitter, Wikis and other on-line tools\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24042646?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In another initiative, several of our research lectures will shortly be recorded, with slides, audio and video interleaved and the result expressed\u00a0<em>via<\/em> our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/itunesu\" target=\"_blank\">iTunesU site<\/a> (in fact, I also tried a project along those lines in 1999, and the lectures are still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\">visible here<\/a>). Lecture podcasts are on the increase (<a href=\"itpc:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\">inject directly into iTunes here<\/a> to see\/hear talks I gave on the topic of Wikipedia and iPads) and I have previously noted on this blog my thoughts about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=3994\" target=\"_blank\">future of (e)Books<\/a>. A common theme of all this digital content is to maintain a balance between purely visual <em>entertainment<\/em>, whilst trying to also create re-usable and semantically-rich components. The movie above, informative as it might be, is largely meant to be entertaining (or engaging; I leave you to judge whether it succeeds in either endeavour). These blog posts (until this one), have concentrated more on the content than the style (although do note that I have been assiduous in running this blog with a <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wptouch\/\" target=\"_blank\">mobile-device plugin<\/a> so that it can be at least in part viewed in such a manner), delivering the former via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=8\" target=\"_blank\">Jmol models<\/a> (and perhaps more of HTML5 in the future),\u00a0with data-oriented information supplied\u00a0<em>via<\/em> links to digital repositories.<\/p>\n<p>I am struck by the ever increasing contrast between &#8220;<em>chalk-n-talk<\/em>&#8221; (the photo below pertains to my office blackboard, and as you can see I do still love my chalk, thanks Greg!) and the (probably bewildering) variety of additional digital outlets we now have. How on earth does one cope?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4185\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/27052011002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4185\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4185\" title=\"27052011002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/27052011002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/27052011002.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/27052011002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/27052011002-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Office blackboard, with chalk!<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 4167 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries (and librarians) are evolving rapidly. 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