Week 5 : Music files and mp3s - Pokarekare Ana

Couldn't help myself, after 'in-depth investigation' (playing) with most of the links that were offered, I finally found m3raid. This was one of my favourites because it the only site I found that offered maaori waiata downloads for free. Abet only a few waiata were offered. A close second was eztracks...the gadget was pretty :) and there was the offer of 1000 free songs. A lot of the other mp3 links had music that I hadn't heard of and I got tired of searching. I know if I really liked a song I would buy it. However, knowing of these sites and how to download mp3's would be invaluable in sharing with our customers.

Pökarekare ana ngä wai o Waiapu, 1 Whiti atu koe hine marino ana e. E hine e hoki mai ra. Ka mate ahau 2 I te aroha e. Tuhituhi taku reta tuku atu taku rïngi, Kia kite tö iwi raru raru ana e. Whati whati taku pene 3 ka pau aku pepa, Ko taku aroha mau tonu ana e. E kore te aroha e maroke i te rä, Mäkükü tonu i aku roimata e.

They are agitated the waters of Waiapu, cross over girl 'tis calm. Oh girl return (to me), I could die of love (for you). I have written my letter I have sent my ring, so that your people can see (that I am) troubled. My pen is shattered, I have no more paper (But) my love is still steadfast. (My) love will never be dried by the sun, It will be forever moistened by my tears.

GoodReads - week 4

Wow!!! what an awesome site. It is not only a great Social Networking site where library staff and customers can contact other like-minded readers but a great place to source book reviews. For those very reasons, I have joined and would recommend GoodReads to customers and friends.

Te Ao's book montage

Te Ao Ataahua's favorite books »

Twitter - Week 3

• I found Twitter easy to use and to add to my blog. 
• SHORT messages...and one isn't bored witless with long spiels 
• It is interesting in a voyeuristic way to see what other people are doing in real time. 
• Checking out Trade me auctions, cheap air flights and such.
• Fast links to other interesting places on the web
• Worldwide contact with others
• Neighbourhood contact with others
• Manukau Libraries are proactive in the use of Twitter e.g. book reviews etc
• Yes, I would certainly promote this service to customers
• Use in the workroom??? Haven't got enough time :(

Week 2 : Zamzar - converting file formats

Wow. As easy as 1,2,3,(and 4) :) converting file formats from doc. to pdf for example, or docx to doc, a bmp image into a jpeg file.  Conversions of various image, audio video and document files.  All I had to do was to find a file in my documents (step1), chose what format I wanted to change it into (step 2) sending it onto my email account (step 3) and then clicking 'convert' (step 4), whilst agreeing to Zamzar terms. All that was left for me to do was to get the files from my email account.


Like I said, so easy to use for our patrons or for ourselves, and with all of the various file formats, well worth using in the future ..and it's free as well.

Week 1 - Blogger

This is my second blog, my first blog was when I began my adventure with learning 2.0. I think the only thing I fear about 2.0 is that I would end up spending too much time on it :) Our libraries could use a blog as a form of communication with our patrons, or between colleagues. We could have gadgets; or short librarian bio's; a photo a day in our libraries. We could also include a pb wiki or other forms of access for our patrons, so that they maybe able to tell us how we could be of better service. We could do so much...

Ōtara Ataahua

Wow, another blog in the name of Learning 2.0. This is an online self-discovery exercise, which would help Manukau City Library staff further our 'expertise' and therefore help our many patrons in the various online queries that are presented to us daily.
The programme will cover six weeks and begin with this blog (week 1), followed by Zamzar (week 2) in which I will learn how to convert file formats. In week 3 I will be setting up a Twitter account and in week 4 I'll be signing up with ‘goodreads’ which combines books and social networking. This is followed up in Week5 with learning how to download music and mp3 files where I'll be exploring the various free music websites as well as downloading a mp3 file. I will visit Facebook in the 6th week and finally we've been shown what we could be doing in the future to further our knowledge on the internet. https://outlook.manukau.govt.nz/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mlweb20.blogspot.com

This would in no way end 'learning through play.' What could follow is Learning 2.1...