Week 10: #23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning...

The final post. I think our branch is running with the 23 Things. We have blogs for several programs to supplement the information provided. Cy-Fair has an Academy of Lifelong Learning and several librarians are teaching a class for on the 23 for the Academy. This has been an excellent training. I think blogging has been the favorite activity because I will probably use it for the book club. I have been using some of the Web 2.0 technologies already like Flickr, MySpace, YouTube. However, the training has given me a greater depth of understanding. The key to the training is keeping up on new things and using what we know. I will use much of what I learned. Thanks for putting together this training. Well done iStar.

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media

Downloadable media is definitely growing. I will use it more as the digital libraries expand. Both Wowio and LibriVox have titles I would check out. HCPL's collection is much better. For now, it is easier to check out the books on CD.

Week 9: #21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!

I ran across the Baseball Historian podcasts using Pocasts.net. They have reproduced old radio broadcasts. Very cool. Once again, great for our Sports Page Book Club. Here is a link, and I added as a RSS feed.

http://www.podcast.net/show/44705

Week 9: #20 Discover YouTube and other video sharing sites

I love to use YouTube videos to highlight themes or people mentioned in our Sports Page Book Club. Here was a video of Alan Webb breaking Jim Ryun's high school mile record. We were reading Sub 4:00.

Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

I sent this post directly from Zoho.

Zoho is new to me.

I plan to explore the features later. Question is....How long will it be free?

Week 8: #18 Social Networking: Making friends in the comfort of your own home

What a nice title for this week's activity. Social networking is about comfort and convenience. But it is also about how we communicate now and keep in touch. I like the fact that facebook arranges by affiliation. I have had a MySpace account, but reallly found I liked phone calls and email better. I didn't feel comfortable with that much about me out there. One trend I noticed is that more and more people are requiring the you to be their friend. They are not opening up their accounts, blogs, pictures for all the world to see. This is a good thing. Catster. Hilarious.

Week 7: #17 Blog About Technology

So after delving a bit deeper into Web 2.0, it seems to me that information is that information is more about repackaging and creating sense of your world. It may be blogging about a trip or mashing photos with a map. RSS and newsfeeds organize the news you need. The ultimate question for me is whether or not my attempts to orgainze the world of information to fit my needs is saving me time or is it just giving me more places to look. Can't say I have an answer yet.