My library forays

   For Thing 6, Reflective Practice I will outline and discuss briefly two Tasks completed. For the third task completed I will discuss it using Reflective Practice. Thing 3, Image Banks     I explored the Flickr Image Bank as my task for Thing 3.    I used mostly a nature theme in my blog.    As part of this task I uploaded a photo of a Peacock to my blog and accredited the photo using the Creative Commons licensing type. See  Strutting  by  Chris Jones  licensed under  CC BY-NC 2.0    I also (i)created a link to the  National Geographic ; (ii)downloaded nature photos to my Wildlife Gallery ; (iii)uploaded photos from an Archives library exhibition to an Album  Library Archives, sample .    The Guidelines in R23/ Thing 3, Image Banks were clear. They were helpful in completing the task. I found Flickr to be user-friendly....

   Attached is a video I created using screencastomatic.com    The subject of the video is How to book a flight. The video is aimed at library patrons.    The video is 2mins. in duration. It includes choosing departure and arrival destinations, dates and times. The video ends before I enter my personal details.    I talked on the video, explaining what I was doing. However when I replayed the video it was difficult to hear my voice even at maximum volume. I adjusted the microphone settings on my laptop and created more videos. The speaking volume remained low in all the videos. I reckon the microphone on my laptop was not working properly or else I did not adjust the microphone settings correctly.    Cookies are still turned-on on my video. I thought I had turned the Cookies off though when I watch the video again it looks as though this did not happen. Weeks after making ...