My Harry Potter Trivia Quiz!

Here's my Zoho writer project - a trivia quiz the Teen Advisory Board and I put together for the release of Deathly Hallows. Come on, you know you want to try it!

Harry Potter Trivia
Who Said It?

Identify who is speaking and in which book. Each answer is worth one point.

1) "The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice."

2) "But I am not a man, Muggle. I am much, much more than a man."

3) "Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

4) "Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get the one that hits back."

5) "Thanks. I've been living off rats mostly. Can't steal too much food from Hogsmeade; I'd draw attention to myself."

6) "Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business."

7) "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!"

8) "What do they think they are doing, annoying senior Ministry members? No respect..."

9) "If she could have done one t hing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!"

10) "It's alright. Cheating's a traditional part of the Triwizard tournament and always will be."

11) "We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher . . . Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?"

12) "I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do! If I have to coach you nightly I will make sure you achieve the required results."

Week 7 Thing 17 Sandbox

So, it turns out that, like RSS feeds, wikis aren't nearly as complicated as I thought they would be. However, I can still totally understand that they have the potential to make people nervous - what if I accidentally delete someone else's very well-thought out and meaningful comment? But I can see where they definitely have uses for planning - rather than compiling a huge email list, everyone involved just adds the wiki to their feedreaders and gets informed instantly when someone makes a change. As a person who finds out about most social gatherings through Facebook invites rather than phone calls or invitations, I can see that kind of use going over well.

Sigh of relief

Right, so the previous post refers to the fact that for about 5 minutes straight I couldn't get the post before that to show up . . . I thought I'd lost it forever! Turns out, it was just this computer!

HELP!

This is a test. Don't panic!

Week 7 Thing 16 Wikis

Wiki Wiki wild wild west . . .

Well, I feel that I have a better understanding now of wikis and how they are used effectively. I loved the Rochester NY wiki that showed visitors all of the cool stuff residents really enjoy. I know we just revamped our community information database, and it's definitely very nice, but I loved the idea of using a wiki for that information - that way the webmaster doesn't have to add every organization individually, information gets posted instantly, and if a change needs to be made it can come straight from the source. I also like that wikis give ownership to the users - perhaps that is why they maintain their standards so well, deleting spam and inappropriate content, because the users care about the site and take care of their own. I'm a big fan of Wikipedia, and while I certainly don't recommend it to children for a research resource, I sometimes mention it to adults looking for general information on a topic in addition to other more traditional resources, and I definitely use it myself when I need a definition while on-desk (for example, several months ago while reading a Library Journal, I hopped onto Wikipedia for a definition of "Library 2.0"!) At the same time, our branch manager started a wiki for favorite books which I have yet to contribute to, because I'm afraid of screwing it up!

Week 6 Thing 15 Library 2.0

The video was engrossing and definitely gave me some things to think about. I found that I don't really know enough about Web 2.0 to understand all of the articles (so much for feeling smart last week that I could use Rollyo!), but a few of the ideas that stuck with me were the ideas that users create value. Well, of course they do - why bother providing services if nobody is using them? - but I'd never heard it said exactly that way before. I also had a good chuckle when I realized that having a teen advisory board is a library 2.0 service - encouraging and accepting feedback from our users. Yay TAB! Something I hadn't really thought about before reading the articles is the fact that the term "Library 2.0" refers to more than the use of the web 2.0 technologies - it's a service model, librarian behaviors, the way we function as a library and the relationship we have with our customers. I can see that we are, indeed, already doing some of the things that the articles predicted - teen advisory board, implementing roving reference, there's even been talk of (gasp!) a MySpace page . . . I'm not sure that "To a Temporary Place in Time" isn't a bit over the top, but I think the writer was correct to assert that we're in for big changes.

Week 6 Thing 14 Technorati

Yay! I've spent more time on Technorati than I probably should have, trying to make it do what I want it to do, and finally success! I found several blogs on teen literature with reviews of books, which is what I was hoping for, as well as blogs on teen services. Yay! Then I subscribed to them on Bloglines, because I'm loving my feed reader. I also claimed my book blog on technorati, so maybe I'll get some hits that way - and of course, if you're reading my 23 things blog, you're welcome to take a look at what I've been reading.

A few things surprised me: first, how many of the top searches had to do with either pornography or Paris Hilton. Sigh. Also, the site seemed slow to work as I was adding favorites - even though I added some on Saturday, I added 2 this afternoon and was then cheerily informed "You haven't added any favorites yet!" Say what now? Granted, that problem resolved itself when I refreshed the page, but potentially confusing nonetheless.