23rd thing

So I've completed Library 2.0. Woohooo! It feels good.

Fav discoveries: Bloglines, Bloglines, del.icio.us... the online image generators were fun. Oh, I've loved youtube forever, so it wasn't a new discovery.

How has this assisted/affected my life long learning goals: Well, there's a lot available online. I like to think I'm fairly up to date with whats gooing on... but really there's just too much to keep up with almost. It was nice to have a summary, and build some kind of general knowledge on a variety of different online tools available.

Any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised me: an iPod!!! Well, I guess learning about some new things online too. haha

Well, last day at the Library tomorrow... should get some sleep. It was a fun summer, and it was nice meeting everyone -- add me on facebook if you have it. :)

audio books

I visiting Dale at the reference desk today and made a netlibrary account. I didn't know this was available... pretty cool actually, good for long drives and stuff. I did some searching, and found a few titles I would consider downloading. I've only listened to one audio book before, and I didn't get through it. I just like reading it more... I don't think I'll be downloading any. But it is nice to know it's available.

podcasts

So, I don't really have as much time for this as I have had this summer, because I leave Saturday morning!! But, after winning an iPod today (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I thought Id finish this up... bc I definitely could use that laptop now. I spent the last 2 hours on the phone w Dell, and they are going to fix it (hopefully) for FREE.
(It's 3 weeks past it's warranty...)

Anyways, I added the RSS feed for Harry Potter related podcast called "Blogging from the Alley". I didn't search through too many podcasts, mainly bc I dont have much time to wrap this up... but it's really one of those things you could spend HOURS investigating. (Also- after youtube, podcasts are not as fun.)

youtube

Activity 20

Web2.0 clip: the html reminded me of computer sci class...... not really impressed. lol
Lib2.0 clip: it's nice to see people that really are taking this whole thing to the next level... and really serious about it.

I love youtube! I cant really say anything bad about other than, like everything else on the interet, there's a lot of crap to work through to find good stuff. The search is pretty good, but people sometimes put really popular tags/titles on their video that is completely unrelated.

I posted one of my favourite scenes of my favourite tv show - Grey's Anatomy.
Anddd, yes I did post Justin Timberlake singing "What goes around..." Youtube is awesome for finding live performances and videos from concerts etc.

Also-- reallllly easy to post these on my blog!! I was so impressed.

grey's anatomy

what goes around...

web 2.0 sites

I looked at the short list (www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short) and recognized a few sites that we've used with Library 2.0 and some sites that I've been using on my own for a while.

I checked out a few sites and decided to fool around with yourminis where I searched through A LOT of widgets. I tested out a few, and decided on a simple countdown. A countdown to the second of when I will be getting on a bus to Waterloo. I'm really excited to go, but time is going almost too fast - I have so much to do!

I liked the yourminis site. There were a lot of choices and it was easy to post it on my blog. The widgets I saw were not really 'useful' applications in a 'Library setting' but they are fun.