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Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Your work makes me want a cupcake so badly! : )
In reply to - Lian Sze posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: Here is mine: http://www.violetdays.com/index.html · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Don’t get mad because you can’t send me a form message yet, but I’m still working on that for my own good. But, here’s the real deal, peeps. : )
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Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
You’ve got some amazing pictures on here, Lisa! What a great, serene background color, too. I like it!
In reply to - Lisa West posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: Here is my final. Just like Daphne, I could have kept working on it forever, so I just had to stop. I hope you enjoy. http://wwestworld.com/index.html http://wwestworld.com/yokohama.css · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
What a great promotional tool. The bio section was really interesting.
In reply to - Daphne Nichole Sidor posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: The final site! http://www.carefulq.com/index.html While time-consuming, I found that the coding process became sort of . . . meditative, after a while? I could keep tinkering with this for ages. · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Awesome work!
In reply to - Phyllis Kastle posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: here’s the final thing http://kastleracing.com/recipebox/ · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
When it comes to the Semantic Web, I wonder if the searching becomes ”easier,” who decides that? Right now, we know that Google gives preferential treatment to preferred sites…so, people aren’t getting the best information, just the most sponsored information. When it comes to the more mechanized searches in 3.0, will we be getting less information or better information?
In reply to - Anna Kim posted an update in the group Internet Futures : Posting 5: I never knew how much the “face” of the web has changed since the very beginning. Since most of the changes occur in the background, it’s not something that is very noticeable, until they are pointed out along with some tangible examples of the change. [...] · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
I’m also a Blackberry user and I hate the browser on it! Is Opera the standard, or did you download it elsewhere? …If I can get my hands on it, I’m there!
One of the things I see in many of the posts this semester is this discussion about our role as users. And, you point it out perfectly; we have to back up our information often and elsewhere! It’s too easy to just trust technology completely.
In reply to - Phyllis Kastle posted an update in the group Tech Trends, Mobile & Cloud Computing : #6 No surprise here reading that Opera mobile is the reason for the explosion of mobile internet use. I’ve used it on my blackberry for several years now and it is by far the EASIEST browser I’ve found. Things just display right. It [...] · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Internet Futures: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Post #4:
The article, ”Disconnects between Library Culture and Millennial Values” was an eye-opener for me. I know that in the Youth Services arena, we are expected to have an ever-evolving eye for the new while keeping our cannon of classics in the mix. However, this article reminded me that not only are the children coming into the department as users digital natives, but the parents who are signing their children up and seeking information are also going to be digital natives now. Then, put it into practice–when you see a new restaurant or a new thing that you’re interested in, where the first place you go to get more information? The Internet. Our reliance on this tool has spawned into a daily occurrence for our children, too. I get emailed, texted and facebook messaged links about things to follow or read from my friends on a daily basis! As libraries, can we afford NOT to be a part of these expectations? With that food for though, I went on to read the Cade Mertz article about Web 3.0 and the changes that the internet was going to be making again. The idea of a Semantic Web sounds like they are taking the need for growth found in the original World Wide Web, adding in some of the personalization tools from Web 2.0 and moving to a broader, possibly more search-easy future. Mertz quoted Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, one of the leading voices of this new-age Internet, ”It’s a set of standards that turns the Web into one big database.” I thought of what new challenges this might present, and after a simple Google search (obviously), I came up with an interesting Semantic Web Wiki to explore (http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Main_Page). We’ve got coding standards already, but who is to determine what the standards are going to be? What are they going to look like? We are all users of Web 2.0 now…is our input going to have influence, too? Web 2.0 gave us that power; now, how are we going to use it?
One thing in the article that really struck me was the library’s role to protect ’born digital’ information with the same fervor that we protect print. It doesn’t happen right now, even though we are all quite familiar with the vulnerability of electronic files. How can we get catalogers to pull in digital resources? which ones do we keep? forget? the buy it, burn it, trash it scale comes to mind.
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Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Tech Trends, Mobile & Cloud Computing: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Posting #3:
Every time a new tech trend comes up, I feel as though we have to think beyond mere security and privacy issues. We have to start thinking about what sort of changes we are making to expectations. Take, for example, Google’s latest tech venture, a facial recognition app that would allow you to link to someone’s social network profiles simply by snapping a picture with your smartphone (thanks, CNN Tech article, http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-31/tech/google.face_1_google-tool-google-permission-google-spokesman?_s=PM:TECH). It seems unbelievably simple to be able to get that kind of information about someone with such a simple movement. Libraries could benefit from this in some ways…maybe we could make our registration process easier. With a simple click of shutter, maybe we could access our patron information and they could breeze through program or card sign up. But, why should it be so simple? The immediate response is that we want to make our own lives easier…we want to avoid having to type someone’s name into a search box. We want to avoid having to move through the drudgery of typing and writing. But, we have to remember that along with that shiny, new app comes another avenue of work for ourselves as service providers. So too, have we created another tedium for all of our informed users; now, we’ll have to go through another process to beef up the security on our internet presence to be sure that we aren’t found by those whom we wish to avoid. There is some room for discussion of how we are training our youth. Are we giving them an unrealistic set of expectations? Are we destroying their patience or understanding of a process by over simplifying?
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Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
http://www.jenniferhovanec.com/LIS753/Exercises/exercise10.html
…Now, just to figure out how to activate it with HostRocket! : )
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Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
It’s a bit simpler than I’d like, but here’s #9!
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Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Web 2.0 & Library 2.0: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Hi, my name is Jenn, and I am a Twitter addict. (Follow me @jennlibrarienne) I love following my favorite bloggers on Twitter…it’s like an instant blast of brilliance right on my Blackberry. So, here’s my webtool report:
http://www.jenniferhovanec.com/LIS753/Exercises/twitter.html
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Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Great work, Kristen! I love my goodreads account. : )
In reply to - Kristen Adomovicz posted an update in the group Web 2.0 & Library 2.0: Hi all, here is my Web 2.0 Tool Review: http://ka-graphicdesign.com/lis753/webtoolreview · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Oh man. What you didn’t see in this picture was the brat that went with all of that deliciousness! : )
In reply to - Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: I had a whole lot of fun with Exercise 05. Check it out: http://jenniferhovanec.com/Exercises/exercise05.html · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
What a great idea! Isn’t it cool to be able to think you’ll be able to do this stuff for along time? : )
In reply to - Daphne Nichole Sidor posted an update in the group Share Your Work! : Here’s a link to my (very basic) Exercise 6: http://www.carefulq.com/exercise06.html Because we were using multiple style sheets, it made sense to me to create a format in which multiple additional pages could be added to the main page without taking on its [...] · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Gorgeous!
In reply to - aliciadiaz posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: inspired by john’s index, i made a simple one for my work. here is my index and my exercises! http://alidiaz.com/753/Index.html · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Technology is not a passing fad. The patrons know it. The young library recruits know it…how do we get ALL libraries to follow it, though? Sure, there are some core things that the library will always have available, but I think many libraries are fearful of opening themselves up to new technologies. If you notice even on Facebook, there are many libraries who post about their activities and offerings…but there is no open-ended conversation. Not too many people are posting comments because the user has not allowed them to do so for fear of backlash or lawsuit-worthy comments. Are libraries really embracing the technology, then? It’s a perplexing thing to think about.
In reply to - Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group LIS Web Jobs : To ignore Youth Services when speaking about LIS Jobs is to cut the library profession off at the foot. In the recent past, libraries have admitted fearing that adults could find their information anywhere other than the library. However, what we need to consider is that [...] · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Not to make a GLEE reference here, but there was a recent episode where Gwyneth Paltrow (substitute teacher, Holly Holiday) said, ”When a student does something I think is great, I tweet them about it. For those few seconds, those kids not only hear praise, but they can see it.” Though the show is fictional, I think that idea is so important; many of the techologies out there are, in fact, tangible like that. There’s a generation of library patrons right now who are looking for this comfort from their libraries…to not be, as you said, ”…knowledgable, curious or willing” to use those technologies is to leave them out.
In reply to - Anna Ha posted an update in the group LIS Web Jobs : Post #2 I think it’s crucial for librarians to be knowledgeable about web technologies or even just curious and willing to experiment with them. The skills acquired and topics discussed in courses like this one will help librarians provide seamless delivery of information and/or services to [...] · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
I think you’re right to think about that future, Katelyn. And, while I heartily agree that a ”patroncentric” library is the way to go, we have to admit that customer service can only go so far. If we find ourselves in a situation like the one you’ve described, we could be faced with greater challenges than materials acquisition.
In reply to - Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Global Issues & Broadband : The most interesting video that I watched from this module was that of the ISOC. The group is working to keep the internet free and open for the greatest number of consumers. When looking at some of the different futures videos, I came across one [...] · View -
Jenn Hovanec posted an update in the group Share Your Work!: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
I’m going rouge and posting my link before I know it’s correct…apparently, I get brave after 11PM!
Mmmm, looks yummy. I love rib tips, too. Next time you go, try the mustard BBQ sauce, it’s my favorite.
Sushi and barbecue…two of my favorites! Food is such a wonderful thing. Using a website to share your restaurant adventures with friends and family is a great idea.
You should definitely watch Check Please!. A lot of the showcased restaurants would be worthy of your website.
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