THE MAGIC NUMBER 23

I have finished !!! and without a very last minute panic :o) I think you guys have been generous to me here and there, but I fully intend to go back to the beginning, now I understand more, and quietly go through most of the places I've been and really 'get them'.
I have done most of the exercises by myself, but have had to call for help from colleagues a couple to times (and you!)- thanks. I have felt encouraged by your comments.
As time has gone by, I have felt miles more confident; I started ACL Learning 2.0 a bit grumpy. All due to ignorance, time constraints and pressure. I did a bit of work from home towards the end; my laptop is new, bought to keep in touch with my overseas' daughter (good old Windows Messenger!), and she sends photos via Ringo. I am pleased that thanks to Web 2.0 I will be able to make more use of this expensive new toy. Oh - ahem - and of course I will be able to put my bit in when podcasts, facebook, rollyo etc are mentioned wherever I am, and be able to hopefully help customers during my working day.

So, to sum up: this learning curve started oh-so-slowly, I found some exercises harder than others, naturally, but the penny started to drop, light began to dawn, owning an MP3 player began to look likely, smiles appeared ... Thanks for the opportunity.

A bouquet for all of us!

ebooks/netlibrary - # 22

LAST EXERCISE!
Well, I established an account and had a good look around the site. A few things made me think I was missing something, so went back and opened the introduction to net library, and was pleased to see where apparently one can download audio books :o). Back into netlibrary and added some titles to favourites. I would like to see a place where you could search by subject in a tighter way than using keywords, because you might want to do an online version of good old browsing the shelves in a particular dewey number.
But! - I could not see where ACL offers audio books from netlibrary. Am I missing something here?

A few customers have queries about our ebooks, so it is good to be more knowledgeable on this subject.

I had a wee look at Kindle, but it seems appropriate for North America.

Podcast - #21

I looked at podcast alley, clicked on genre, chose arts - and - was aghast at the silly podcast titles listed. They were not helpful in choosing which podcasts to choose, and when I looked in some of them, I was most unimpressed.
So - onto the yahoo choice and that was much easier to follow. I typed "public libraries" in the search box and up came some great video titles. Web Marshall blocked a few, but I looked at a couple of others and one of them I watched, which showed an American public library; people were chosen, seemingly at random, to say what their library meant to them, and then the library staff were interviewed and followed around their library.

Then I tried adding an RSS feed for a podcast to my bloglines account. I like the Saturday and Sunday morning programmmes from Radio New Zealand but can't lie in bed listening thaaaaat long! I was pleased to hear Chris Laidlaw say one could listen via a podcast from their website and thought aha! I can set that up as an exercise. I was a bit disconcerted to read on their website that you needed special software, but tried anyway. I had thought it had to be a special podcast feed, but no, it connects as an RSS feed, so have added that to my Blogline account successfully.

YouTube - #20

Hayao Miyazaki's movies are truly awesome! We have quite a few in our libraries; also the graphic novels and the beautiful book The Art of Howl's Moving Castle.

Anyway, my children use YouTube for all sorts of things - my daughter in Denmark keeps up with McLeod's Daughters this way.

YouTube is obviously HUGE and I look forward to getting into itunes :o)

Web 2.0 tools

Hey, this was a fun site! I first went into the music category and tried Pandora, but it wouldn't connect to li'l ole New Zealand. So I tried last.fm and really liked some of the features there, especially the ability to listen to musicians they suggested I might enjoy - similar to the artist I had chosen to listen to. This way I could discover musicians I was unaware of. Who knows; this site might be handy if I can just get all the exercises done in time to get that MP3 player!

I also enjoyed playing around in realtravel, where you could read people's input of their travels, and get information as to what to see, where to eat etc.

Lastly I was blown away by googlemaps. I tapped in Whangamomona and instantly the tiny settlement was pinpointed.

Use in the library? Yes to perhaps suggesting alternative singers to customers, and yes to finding places anywhere in the world, however tiny. Or just maps in general. And that is just in the few sites I went into. I will definitely explore more here.

PBWiki

Oops, I forgot to go and play in the Sandbox. I have added a favourite to the music favourites, but not sure I have done it correctly as my URL is not showing. The tutorial would not play, so couldn't go and get some clues.
Never mind, it's an hour after leaving work time, and I'm outta here ..

Later, at home. The tutorial will still not open and I have tried for ages to get my url to show alongside my comments in the music favourites. I have spent too long on this and cannot figure out something which is no doubt simple. Grrrr. Help please!

Zoho

So far getting into Zoho has taken a looooooong time and I am not impressed so far, though I liked the sound of it ♥. I am hoping I will be able to use Vista at home

(me in the flower garden - hehe, I wish!)

and then pick up on the work here at work and edit or print through XP .