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Wednesday 8 May 2013

The end... or is it?

This will be my last post on Virtual future.  I started as "Conette the assistant librarian".  I am now "Conette, the blogging, podcasting, not-tweeting wikipedian" who knows what the little black and white blocks are(QR codes), even though my phone is not advanced enough to read them.  It was nice to read what everyone in class had to say about the subject that I felt very down-hearted about at the beginning of the semester.  I learned so much but I still don't think I will ever use Twitter or a blog again.  It was fun though and I will definitely go on with the wiki so look out for our published version.

So now this blogging, podcasting, not-tweeting wikipedian is blogging off. Thumbs crossed that the next couple of subjects waiting for me are as interesting as ICT was.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Podcast completed!

Today I went to Sandy to make double sure that my recording of the interview that I had with my principal librarian is on the right track.  She said it sounded good.  I deleted almost 100 seconds from the original interview making use of Audasity.  There is hardly any background sound left as well.  This is one of the nicest programmes I have ever used and I will definitely try and use it in the future if I need to modify some audio files.

I would really like to link my podcast to my blog, but the only way I am able to add my podcast to the blog is by loading it as a video... I hoped it will work... but it didn't.  Mabe Sandy can give me a bit of help tomorrow before class.


Thursday 2 May 2013

My Podcast Project

Okay so I completed my interview for my Podcast Project.  I interviewed my Principal Librarian, Rosa Folscher, on social media in libraries.  It is amazing on how one can talk for hours on end and not note that the time is flying.  But when you need to record a conversation of five to ten minutes it is nearly impossible.  I thought it would be easy to get to ten minutes but I found that you talk very fast if you know you are being recorded.  Then again you know what the answer to a question is and what you want to ask next but you can only plan an interview to a certain point.  Now I need to remove all the ringing phones, people talking in the library and people knocking on the door even though a big bright sign on the door says "interview in progress, do not knock or enter". 

Part one completed, now for fixing and then posting.  Then project is complete!
Our Wiki Website

Yesterday I added some information to our wiki website.  Now I know that it must first be published and then only others will be able to see what is going on on our website.  Can't wait to see what it will look like finally.  As I said previously it is on the general library information for the City of Cape Town Public Libraries.  I added the Library Bylaw and the Dewey System.  Now some more books and their reviews.