After the edits. After posting the project to youtube. After the storyboard. After the project presentation to the selection committee on deadline. After winning in the category of Creative Collaboration announced at the LCDT meeting. An e-mail was circulated to advertise our project with a link to youtube. Several have enjoyed our "playful teamwork," some have commented in person and other have left comments in the space alotted on youtube. While promoting all of these wonderful technologies, advances in communications, use of web 2.0 tools, we had a wonderful speaker (Michael Stephens) come and speak to us on continuing to move forward in using these to connect with others via internal and external web communities or "tribes." I recieved an e-mail notifying us of comments on our work-related project. Sadly, all I was able to access and read (from work) was the following.
The City's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.
Reason: The Websense category "General Email" is filtered.
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URL: http://www.youtube.com/inbox?folder=comments&action_message=1
Irony defined beautifully.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wonderful Woes of Going Beyond 2.0-Part2: Trial and Errors
At the suggestion of our supervisor, we kept a informal record of our decision making process along the travels through our Beyond 2.0 project.
Beginning with topic selection. After tossing ideas at each other while passing in the workroom at shift changes, we finally settled on our final choice during a humorous and light-hearted dispute while shelving in the video section. The questions brought to light in the video short were those we ourselves had differences of opinion on. Therefore, we began to formulate our innovative way of improving communications via a training video for circulation personnel.
When we narrowed our field to the goal of opening a discussion rather than actual training, it was merely a product of a official written policy roadblock, or rather, dead end. In the circulation procedures manual we found no concrete answers to most of our questions. Thus rendering our ability to properly educate on the "how to" impossible. Obviously, improving communications was needed. Hopefully a future update to the procedure manual will one day be the final result.
The orginal concept for the video was to illustrate how the tasks of the clerks directly effect those of the other positions within our library system, a food chain if you will. Also to share actual scenerios we encounter, as well as, perhaps clearify any misconceptions about the importance of our role. This along with the overall topic transitioned into illustrating misconconceptions when shelving videos and using actual questions we ourselves have to foster discussion and healthy debate.
In chosing the format in which to present our project, we immediately leaned toward a video posted to youtube. The other web 2.0 tools used were simply communication tools or means to an end. And as for this blog, I merely like to blog. In leiu of text or commentary in the short we originally had planned to pen a actual accompanying training manual. A manual without concrete answers to the questions at hand though was useless, so we opted for an accompanying discussion worksheet complete with printed photo examples of the questions raised in the video short. In turn these photos found their way onto our presentation storyboard for the project.
When compiling our photos, as mentioned in the previous blog, we encountered storage space issues so we moved into the online photosharing realm. During the uploading and editing process we found that Photobucket was actually more liberal with storage space and more user friendly than Flicker. All the other web 2.0 tools used were as a direct result from their introduction through Learning 2.0 Remix program.
These are only but a few points to illustrate our decision making process along the way, but I feel I have typed quite enough for the moment. Until next blog....
Beginning with topic selection. After tossing ideas at each other while passing in the workroom at shift changes, we finally settled on our final choice during a humorous and light-hearted dispute while shelving in the video section. The questions brought to light in the video short were those we ourselves had differences of opinion on. Therefore, we began to formulate our innovative way of improving communications via a training video for circulation personnel.
When we narrowed our field to the goal of opening a discussion rather than actual training, it was merely a product of a official written policy roadblock, or rather, dead end. In the circulation procedures manual we found no concrete answers to most of our questions. Thus rendering our ability to properly educate on the "how to" impossible. Obviously, improving communications was needed. Hopefully a future update to the procedure manual will one day be the final result.
The orginal concept for the video was to illustrate how the tasks of the clerks directly effect those of the other positions within our library system, a food chain if you will. Also to share actual scenerios we encounter, as well as, perhaps clearify any misconceptions about the importance of our role. This along with the overall topic transitioned into illustrating misconconceptions when shelving videos and using actual questions we ourselves have to foster discussion and healthy debate.
In chosing the format in which to present our project, we immediately leaned toward a video posted to youtube. The other web 2.0 tools used were simply communication tools or means to an end. And as for this blog, I merely like to blog. In leiu of text or commentary in the short we originally had planned to pen a actual accompanying training manual. A manual without concrete answers to the questions at hand though was useless, so we opted for an accompanying discussion worksheet complete with printed photo examples of the questions raised in the video short. In turn these photos found their way onto our presentation storyboard for the project.
When compiling our photos, as mentioned in the previous blog, we encountered storage space issues so we moved into the online photosharing realm. During the uploading and editing process we found that Photobucket was actually more liberal with storage space and more user friendly than Flicker. All the other web 2.0 tools used were as a direct result from their introduction through Learning 2.0 Remix program.
These are only but a few points to illustrate our decision making process along the way, but I feel I have typed quite enough for the moment. Until next blog....
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