Week 10 #23 The end

I'm glad it is over. It was hard to find time some weeks and I didn't want to get behind since it can be so hard to catch up. The last 3 weeks were tough because I was tired of it and it was mostly read stuff and then talk about it in your blog.



The week that was probably the most fun was also the most challenging--Flickr. I don't know if I'll use any of it again but at least I do know about some new stuff if I hear people talking about it. I think

Week 9 #22 Downloadable Media

I took at look at our Overdrive collection. I thought it was interesting that in music we had Rainforest, Ocean Waves and Aromatherapy eMusic. I had not taken the time to look at the eVideo collection and was surprised to find IMAX films. I don't know that I'd want to watch a whole movie on my computer screen.

Looked at Librivox and since it is items in the public domain it didn't have the popular titles that we have in Overdrive. I would think it could be very helpful to students with Internet access who don't want to go to a library to find the book they need.

Week 9 #21 Podcasts

I have listened to a few podcasts in the past. I used Podcast.net to find The Bookcast which had several interviews with authors. This is really not something I enjoy. I don't like audiobooks or talk radio and so podcasts have no appeal to me. I find it boring to just listen to something...it just doesn't engage me.

I did subscribe to the Bookcast feed in my Bloglines account.

Week 9 #20 YouTube and video sharing

I thought it was pretty interesting that I could find clips of musical performances from many many years ago...like the 70s before there were video recorders and music videos. Some comedian performances are pretty good too. A lot of the home made stuff isn't the best quality but its a good place for people to share.

Week 8 #19 Apps

Okay. So I can type up something and save it into the Zoho account. I guess if I want to be able to access a document from anywhere I have Internet that would be useful. I can also save it as a word document or email it. I'm just not sure why I would want to when I can already use Word on my computer.

Week 8 #18 Social Networking

Looked at My Space, Yahoo 360, Facebook and Dogster. It took awhile to find anyone via the search on My Space but I did find someone I was looking for. I would have to have my own page if I wanted to really view their page and contact them. I don't find any of them very interesting but probably because of my age. I'm just not interested in meeting people online.

Week 7 #17 Technology

I have added comments on a couple of blogs. In one case I knew who's blog it was but in the other I have no idea who the blog belongs to but I commented about a photo that was posted.

Anything Technology, huh? Well, how about the difference in Reference over the past 10 years as the Internet and Online Databases have so completely changed reference service! When I went to library school the Internet was just being introduced and there really wasn't much out there yet. And online databases were harder to use than the book format at the time. It's all come a long way! It's just so easy to hop onto the Internet to look for info on anything. It evens out the resources available at branches no matter how small. They may not be able to house a huge collection of Reference Books but with online resources space doesn't matter! Hooray for Technology!