To Summarize...

I'm glad I took part in Library 2.0 and I am really pleased that I finished. My blog is pretty spartan, but I completed all the lessons.
I enjoyed the rudiments of creating a blog account and posting to it. It's so darn neat! But since I'm of the opinion that no one really cares what I think, I'm not sure about my future in the blogging world.
As far as favorites go, the online generators were the most fun. Zoho had tons of useful applications that I can see using in the future. And I can certainly understand the attraction of Yahoo with the chance for instant fame. I like seeing what interests others by their tagging, and also in the travel sites I joined. There's always so much useful and fascinating stuff.
This program for lifelong learning was very well planned. I surprised myself that in following the directions and reading through examples, I could ultimately accomplish the lessons. It took me many months, but now I've already peeked beyond the 23 things. If anything, I learned not to be afraid to try. So I'm confident that I'll keep learning.

Netlibrary

It was easier opening a Netlibrary account here at the library, than from my home computer. I kept running into problems. I had joined the eBooks at YPL early on, but still enjoyed the traditional book format, rather than reading a novel online. Now audios would be an interesting possibility. I like listening to BCD's while driving.
I see that when I tried to find books by Neil Gaiman on audio, I struck out. But Netlibrary had lots of classics, like Aesop Fables, that I'd enjoy. I looked at the instructions for downloading and I think I can do it. But I'd really need that experience of actually doing.

I saw that I couldn't download to the Ipod, so that MP3 player would be ideal.

#21 podcasts

I get the idea of podcasts and think it's pretty nifty. I've downloaded music from ITunes for my IPOD (a gift from my son) and have greatly enjoyed that. For this lesson, I looked into OTRPod Old time radio for "Who's on first" by Abbott and Costello. I needed to download Quick Time Player to listen to it. I checked out Podcast Alley and saw that I can join Podshow to save favorite podcasts. I would also need to download a podcast generator then. That's for another time.

A trip to the sea

There's nothing like a trip to the ocean. Chuck and I celebrated our 30th anniversary with a trip to the Outer Banks. It's true what they say, "It's good for the soul."

Youtube

I joined Youtube and posted my favorite video to share. This site is great fun and easy to use. I probably wouldn't post a video, since I don't really take any. But it was good to look at the better things this popular site has to offer.

Coconut Comforts

I got a kick out of this video, since I visit the zoo frequently and I wanted to share it with you.

Award Winning Web 2.0

For this exercise, I looked at the award winners and joined Real Travel. I posted a blog about my last trip to visit my penpal (we've been writing since age 14) in Germany. I especially wanted to see my area of travel pin pointed on the little world map. It was a short blog and after posting I was disappointed that it did not appear on my page, but went back today and it's there afterall.
I can see this site being useful for travelling tips about hotels, restaurants and other sites. Frankly, I don't think anyone would really want to read about someone else's adventures, unless you are an avid traveller. Personally, I felt a little silly writing it out. Oh, and one tip, when signing up, you are asked if you want to state your age. I thought sure, why not and I did. But when you bring up your page, there it is in big print, right by your name. A bit jarring.

#18 Zoho

So I looked around Zoho and signed up and tried to post a few sentences to my blog. I liked the applications offered and the ease of use. Also, the variety of templates was useful and I'll remember that if I need to use any. Pretty neat that they are all free too!

#17 Sandbox Wiki

So I played with the sandbox wiki and added my favorite movie and music and tv show. It was pretty easy and I added my blog to the list as well. Don't know if I would really return to do this all, cause it's not really my idea of fun. But I liked trying something new anyway. Nothing really to add.

Wikis

I always liked looking up things on Wikipedia. I think it's a good concept. Although I did hear on NPR that some political party members were editing their competition's articles and that the editing was able to be traced to the source, thus causing embarrassment.
So, is it a useful idea? After reading the library 2.0 info, I still think so. It seems fair allowing anyone to join in to contribute to a wiki, without a lot of computer know-how. It also promotes collaborative efforts and info sharing, depending on the type of wiki. That said, with a dedicated staff, a public wiki on the library web site might be used for community events or book reviews. I thought that was interesting, as long as people are sincere. That's where the staff comes in to oversee that submissions are legitimate. Wow, this does get complicated, is checking comments for obsenities, or fluff considered censorship? I guess you can take a wiki for what it offers, keeping in mind its limitations.

Library 2.0

After reading the articles on Web and Library 2.0, I can see that the field of librarianship will change even more rapidly than in my previous years' experiences. What it means to me is to keep up with this technology and I think that we've got a long way to go from our current position. Advances are great, but where's the money coming from to make these changes? Also, with more availablity of technology to patrons comes more responsibility on their part as the recipients. I'm entranced by the possibilities of better serving the public and more than willing to learn, but we have to remove the obstacles we've put in place to protect ourselves, so we can meet their needs.
I like the idea of allowing patrons some freedom to tag cataloged items, so they can find them easier and help each other at the same time. But people more knowledgable than me will have to set up that criteria.

Technorati

I've just begun to play with Technorati. I opened an account and went through the steps to claim my blog. Now it appears that I can post on Technorati or Blogger. I added one of the YPL blogs to my favorites and that worked great. I needed to add tags to it too and that was easy. I plan to add more and explore the other possibilities. Cool!

An evening with Del.icio.us

Finally spent some time at home with tagging in Del.icio.us. I opened my account and first added my own tags to one of my all-time favorite t.v. shows, Xena. It worked great, but like my son said when he happened to call, that won't be popular sharing today cause it's an old show. So I proceeded to look at other's topics and saved the Etsy site using other's tags. If you haven't tried Etsy,you should take a look. There's lots of original art work and creative one of a kind stuff for sale by regular people like us. There were tons of people bookmarking Etsy. Then I tried making up my own tags and borrowing some for bookmarking Avatar, the cartoon. That also proved to be a very popular bookmark. I was looking at exporting some of my own stuff from my favorites on my computer, but that's for another time.
I can see how Del.icio.us can be useful and fun having all your favorites in one place with the help of thousands of other users.

Rollyo

Well, I created a "Travel Anywhere" searchroll with lots of my favorite sites for world travel info. It's a usefull and timesaving device. Also, easy to achieve.
Here's a link to my page:


http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=Try+it+out...&sid=303860&x=8&y=6

Playing with #10 & #11

I've been playing with the online generators and Library Thing. My goth name is "synthetic darkness" and seeing my name on a chocolate bar was fun. In fact lessons 10 & 11 were loaded with lots of playful things to do and I could spend a lot of time with them. Also,I'm tempted to add every book title I've ever enjoyed on Lirary Thing. Regretfully, I shall move on to the next lesson.

Online generators

Some Favorites...

Strange

Anyone have this happen? I posted today to my blog, but it doesn't appear, unless you open "Search Blog". Oh well, I'm trying.

Progress

Played around some more with Flickr. Liked the worldinpictures.org where you put in a location like Munich, Germany and it is converted to latitude/longitude to find Flickr photos from that locale.
Also, read a Library Journal 6/07 article on podcasts. My son gave me an ipod last Christmas and I downloaded some of my favorite music. It's great for walking, but now I'm learning the audio possibilities.
Next I joined bloglines and set up some cool feeds. That was easy - news, librarian sites, national geographic. Too bad there are so many adds popping up. But I need to explore this further.

Adding a photo

Well, here's a photo of my sweet Shu taken last winter during the big snow. My home computer crashed twice in the past few months, most recently 2 weeks ago, hindering my efforts to work on the library 2.0 in my spare time. I should be getting back on track now.

Detour

Went back and watched the tutorial for the 7 1/2 Habits and will try very hard to implement the "challenges, not obstacles" credo. Been jumping around and did examine Flickr last week, but wasn't sure I would use that photo sharing program much. Also learning about RSS feeds, but I need to spend more time on that. I'll just keep forging ahead and try to follow a more direct path this time.

Blogs

I wanted to comment that making a blog was easy and quick. Just follow the instructions and poof, it's there. It was fun to try something new and succeed instantly.

Golden Compass

Hi,
It's been awhile, but life happens.
Now The Golden Compass is being made into a movie. I hope it does the book justice. If you go to the website you can get your own daemon, based on your traits.
Here's mine: http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/?92556
Eerily accurate

Janeya creates

It's late in Sebringland and I'm running out of time. There's still so much to learn and add, but that's best left for a new dawn. I think I'm going to like blogging and I'm anxious to add some images. I'm grateful for the opportunity. Bye