I must confess, I am a middle aged exercise convert. After years of being a couch potato I now can't get enough of walking, lifting and tensing those old muscles. I've tried many things in an effort to develop that perfect exercise routine..pilates, running, boxing, dancing, yoga, weight training...phew even belly dancing!My latest craze is kettlebell training! It was originally developed to keep the Russian military fit and involves a whole lot of lifting and throwing around of a solid ball of iron with a handle on it.
Having spent a little time browsing Flickr, I realised that you can find a picture of just about anything on there except maybe, I thought, a kettlebell. How wrong I was. I found 527 results for photos matching kettlebells...all shapes, all sizes, and people from all over the world throwing those lumps of iron around. There is even a Flickr kettlebell group! Not so sure I will be uploading images of me sweating over a kettlebell though.
But enough of my exercise obsession.
I was very interested in the way The National Library is using Flickr on Picture Australia. Now that I have a Flickr account I will definitely be uploading some images of our local area to the Ourtown group.
I can also see loads of possibilities for using Flickr on our library website.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Libraries then and now....
As a student of librarianship more years ago than I would like to admit, the big topics of discussion were "Did computers spell the demise of books?" "would we be scrolling through the chapters of the latest novel on computer screen, rather than curling up on our favourite couch turning the pages of our latest read?"
My computer studies consisted of learning about the magic digits 1010 and punching those binary combinations into manilla coloured computer cards that went whirling through a computer big enough to fill the top floor of the library building.
That was then... now there are so many more questions , so many more possibilities as to how we create ,use and organise information.... blogs, podcasts, del.ici.ous, rss etc etc
It's is such an exciting time in libraries and Learning 2.0 is such a great opportunity to play and learn and be part of this brave new 2.0 world!!!
My computer studies consisted of learning about the magic digits 1010 and punching those binary combinations into manilla coloured computer cards that went whirling through a computer big enough to fill the top floor of the library building.
That was then... now there are so many more questions , so many more possibilities as to how we create ,use and organise information.... blogs, podcasts, del.ici.ous, rss etc etc
It's is such an exciting time in libraries and Learning 2.0 is such a great opportunity to play and learn and be part of this brave new 2.0 world!!!
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