#23 Summary and my thoughts

The trip to number 23 has been interesting. At times frustrating and seemingly pointless, there has been the odd moment of AH HAH, when something actually worked. There are some things which i will gladly revisit, for example, flickr and zoho, youtube and podcasting, but am less interested in some, for example an rss feed. The process of completing Learning 2.0 has provided exposure to a technological world in which ideas can be readily shared, and is certainly something which can be taken forth into everday (library) life.

#22 Downloadable audio books

This thing opens up a whole new world of listening. Have added a couple of sites that I thought might be interesting to follow up with given a home computer with quicktime and a lot more listening time.

Author's Community Collection
http://WorldeBookFair.org/Authors_Community.htm

The Author's Community Collection is a collection of contemporary authors. The collection contains a wide variety of genres and interests. (387 PDF eBooks)

Blackmask Online Collection
http://WorldeBookFair.org/Blackmask.htm

Blackmask Online Collection includes 15,000 PDF eBooks, beautifully digitally formatted classic works of world literature. All the works can be browse by subject. All files are included in the WeL eBook search engine. A Popular Titles: has been created. (14,675 eBooks)
Women Writers Collection
http://WorldeBookFair.org/Women_Writers_Collection.htm

Women Writers Collection is a collection of texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. All files are included in the WeL eBook search engine. (A total of 103 PDF ePublications)

#21 Podcasts

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/streets.xml

In the absence of much Australian content in the sites explored, I have opted to add this link to an ABC connection. Would need a lot more time to explore the notions of podcasting, a lot of what i looked at required payment or subscription. Managed to locate a weather one and subscribe in bloglines, so i suppose that was something.

#20 YouTube

You Tube is lots of fun. It is quite fun to type in a keyword and come up with strange and fascinating videos. This is, however, one of the downsides. There is apparently no limit to what people think others will find interesting, when really alot of it is simply not that!! Oh well, each to their own.

#19 Discovering web 2.0 tools

http://www.farecast.com/

In a fit of wishful thinking, I selected this travel site award winner from the Web 2.0 awards list. Useful if you are seeking comparative travel information. Similar to many other sites, some of which I was already familiar with. Web 2.0 awards was not available at this time, so only looked at the winners, but if the range here is anything to go by, the sky is the limit. Had a look at the directory suggested as an extra, and that was truly mind boggling. Would have to wait for some day when i have oodles of time to spare.

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#18 ON LINE PRODUCTIVITY

SO THIS IS ZOHO

Who knew that word processing on-line would be such an easy option. works just like any old wordprocessor. This may be the best Web 2.0 featured topic so far

All the exciting features of a wordprocessor and the ability to publish directly to blog. This would have been a great feature to be aware of prior to GRLC introducing wordprocessing on our public access terminals. It could still be very handy to borrowers who don't have a memory stick and want to save documents on our terminals.

By the way, this blog was created in zoho and published from there. Too easy!!

#17 Sanbdox WIKI

Adding my blog to the favourites page was pretty easy. Browsing the lists of favourites was somewhat entertaining, although these WIKIs become pretty hard to follow after a while. (Too much information). Tried to sign up for my own wiki, but they wanted a longer wiki user name and i was too tired to think of one, so next topic!!

#16 WIKIS

I enjoy the concept of WIKIs, as described by Meredith Farkas, in creating on-line communities, a.k.a. community suggestion boxes - creating a forum in which people can make suggestions and recommendations about all manner of things. It was particulary interesting to browse through the booklovers wiki at Princeton public library.

#15 Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

Ah, technology. Love it or not, we are bombarded with new and ever evolving technologies. It is a struggle at times (like now) to understand and keep up with innovations on line, but an eye-opener and pathway to the world. The expressed views in this week's "thing" suggest that libraries need to keep changing, keep up, anticipate, interact, collaborate, deliver ... the list goes on. Now, where's that book?

#14 Technorati

So much information, so little time. It was surprising to see how many results came up under Learning 2.0 - tried to export blog and/or photos to this site just to try and be clever, but nothing happened (or perhaps, i am just not clever enough with the techniques involved. Can't really see myself bothering to go back here.

#13 Del.icio.us

Well there sure was plenty to look out in this site. I found it very easy to sign in and search, however lacked the computer power to install the funny little whatsits into the toolbar on my computer. Social bookmarking is likely to be pretty handy in many settings, finding answers to many of the questions raised in our library setting. I have a niggling concern that tagging for social purposes on public access computers allows some privacy breach issues - judicious use only!!

#12 ROLLYO

Successfully created account with Rollyo, created a search engine or two. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, have managed to link Rollyo to blog, this is perhaps the most exciting Ahh Hah moment i have had all year.

#11 Library Thing

Library thing is very easy to sign into, search and add items to a personalised booklist. Several years ago as a student, I had to demonstrate my ability to use a database, by cataloguing my book collection. Too bad library thing wasn't around at the time, it would have saved me months of hair pulling and swearing.

Week 9 : #10 image generator

Easy to spend hours playing around with image generators, I found it very tempting to sample many of the offerings listed on the site, for example, discovering my wrestling name, creating personalised images soap, christmas decorations, the list goes on and on.

#7 & #8 RSS & Newsreaders

For those who spend hours on the net and want the very latest in information, and want it NOW NOW NOW, RSS is probably a wonderful resource. I can, however, usually wait for the evening news or tomorrow's newspaper.

Creating the bloglines account presented no difficulty. Having much to say / share about this one presents a far greater challenge. Think i'll proceed to the next exercise ...