Friday, May 9, 2008

MLA CE Week 8

I looked at the programmableweb.com site and found a mashup for Prague 360. I will be there a year from now on a trip with the Colorado Symphony Chorus. We'll give a concert in their concert hall, as well as concerts in Budapest and Vienna. It is interesting to explore the city online first!

The Searchroll entry I looked at was on David Rothman's blog. The entry talked about Microsoft's Health Vault, a patient-created personal health record site. You can put all your health information there without privacy worries. David quoted Microsoft's privacy policy and provided a link to a more complete version. This might provide a way for physicians to gain a better understanding of a patient's symptoms and disease process, especially when time face to face in the office is so limited these days. But if I put myself in the role of a patient, I would be nervous about putting such personal information on the Internet, no matter how much they say it is protected!

MLA CE Week 7

YouTube is fun! Since I owned a cat for many years, I looked at "An Engineer's Guide to Cats". Two guys with three cats demonstrating cat behavior and quirks - very funny.

Podcasting could be used in the library to introduce new resources or to demonstrate by tutorial.