Thing # 23

When i first began i was bemused by the new world i had entered and despaired that i would ever 'get the hang' of it. Some things are still a bit harder and i doubt i will use them again while others are great...image generators, RSS feeds, del.icio.us, YouTube...fantastic. I can see the value of Flickr but i won't be using it. Wikis are goood too, Wikipedia forever!
As for assisting my learning goals, i feel that this has improved and excited my learning goals. I hope they can asist me in my continuing course work for my Lib Tech certificate.
I'm sick of opening this account and that account...
I have gained confidence in using these tools.

Thing # 22

A funny thing happened in the library the other day. A patron came up to the desk to tell me had tried to place a hold on a book on iBistro but it was only showing an MP3 copy. What did that mean? I explained what it meant and he was none too happy...he wanted the book and didn't have an MP3 player!! What was he to do? Well it turned out we did have a book copy and so i duly placed the hold. He was happy.
I think the World EBook Fair site was very comprehensive. I liked how there were many works that could possible help if you were at high school or Uni (Dante's 'Divine Comedy' and lots of Shakespeare). Hard to read but easy to listen too, possibly?
The site was easy to navigate.

Thing # 21

I tried all the recommended podcast sites: Podcast.net Podcastalley.com and Yahoo but i couldn't find anything that interested me. Also, a lot of the podcast were more than 15mins...well this could probably be double that time with the way they freeze then resume then freeze again. When i conducted a search of a few things on the Yahoo site i kept getting the message 'this link is not authorised by Yahoo!'. I may come back to this but i would rather read a transcript on the'net, i think. Not recommended.
Do i think this could be utilised in the library scenario? Possibly if there were good book reviews or short examples of tlk books advertised (MAtthew Reilly, Area 7 was a good teaser).

Thing # 20

Okay...If they can't eat cake then let them eat....ear wax!! Oops i talked a bit about YouTube in thing # 19 not realising it was thing # 20. I'm happy that i got this onto my blog. I can't believe how far i've come since thing #1!! Enjoy...or not!

Seriously though, how frustrating is YouTube to watch. Is it just my computer (i don't belive so) but all the stopping & starting and squeaky voices.

Thing # 19

Well, there is a lot of stuff out there. I was really interested in something called myfamily.com. This sounded like just what i could use...keeping in touch with family members, posting pictures, putting in reminders about birthday etc. Unfortunately it only had a free 30 day trial then you had to pay an annual subscription fee.

I guess i keep coming back to YouTube. I like to go on and see the political speeches...mainly American stuff but thats ok. It's interesting to see what issues are big and being talked about. I even saw Kirk Douglas on there!!!

My favourite things to use are YouTube and the great del.icio.us