THE END: Week 9, Thing 23

Hope I can remember some of the eye-opening tools I was exposed to during this journey. I have kept notes which should help me find some things I would like to go back to. Already some of the things I have been able to put to use (especially those related to photography) and have been able to pass on to my grandson (especially podcasting, which he didn't know much about). He's looking forward with fear to the day I upload a video onto his MySpace.
In summary, I'm not sure how often I'll be using many of the cataloging components, but at least I know more about what can be done. And now I can look forward to maybe winning a Wii!
HAPPY BLOGGING!

DISCOVERIES: Week 9, Thing 22

I was surprised to see what titles were listed among the Top 100 Books Yesterday in Gutenberg, which I explored after completing the Overdrive guided tour. My choice from that would be Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, which I should have studied before pursuing my English major in college! What I enjoyed most was obtaining free temporary access to the Classical Archives of music, permitting me to wind up the day by listening to the "Spanish Dance" from Swan Lake. You just never know what a day of working for a library can bring! And what a great and appropriate way to wind up Learning 2.0 - with a swan song!

DISCOVERIES: Week 9, Thing 21

Viewed tutorials and posted a feed. Downloaded audacity for creating a podcast sometime in the future.
Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory

Podcast testing

This podcast contains some interesting material. Hope the link works.

http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd

DISCOVERIES: Week 9, Thing 20

Explored some videos and added a few to my blog.

WORTH WATCHING

Some YouTube videos worth watching - only one embedded (I hope).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Hl62ChuKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW__zx2rSGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSEbdW7Pvnc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-oBHCsFbkk&mode=related&search=

DISCOVERIES: Week 8, Things 18 and 19

With 19 Things completed, I'm entering the homestretch, looking forward to Week 9 exercises which, I don't think, can be done readily via home dial-up. (Maybe in the process I'll discover how to make podcasts etc. work better from my home computer.) Saw many impressive Web 2.0 award winners in mashups, marketing and photo categories. Picasa looks like a winner for efficiently categorizing dozens of libraryland digital photos.

Zoho zounds good

A real eye-opener that warrants further exploration. Wonderful potential for collaborative editing for brochures, reports, etc. I see another opportunity here to impress my daughter with my new found knowledge and to let her in on a tool she could readily use for doing her job.

(posted from Zoho)

DISCOVERIES: Week 7, Thing 17

Playing in the sand box was fun, as promised, and I managed to add this blog to the list. Wow! So many interesting new things to try.

DISCOVERIES: Week 7, Thing 16

Veni, Vidi, Wiki (or was it Vici) and explored with great interest the many uses and possibilities of Wikis (not to mention the plethora of imaginative names given to the tool - as another variation I offer up the word "stikiwiki" for consideration). Purist that I am (to put it politely), I was disappointed that I could not try my hand at editing the misspelling of "congreagation" in one of the entries because I didn't have the necessary password and couldn't take the time to get one. But that was my only disappointment. The possibilities seem endless. Princeton's Book Lovers Wiki was amazing as was St. Joe's Subject Guides. There's all kinds of potential for the creation of community wikis and great repositories for collecting customer testimonials, not to mention idea sharing. Of particular interest to me are the possibilities for collaborative editing of things like brochures. Some of the examples on MERLIN such as You Send It invite further exploration. Right now I want to play in the Sandbox.