This is the end, beautiful friend, this is the end!

Well, I made it. I did all the tasks, understood and enjoyed most, but most important I earned that day off! Right on, baby!

This was a great learning opportunity that the library encouraged staff to do, I really appreciate that the library is investing in staff learning.
Learning new things is always good, and the more we know about the web the more we can assist the public.

I hope the library continues to provide these types of programs for staff.

Some of my favorites --
Youtube
BlogLines
MySpace (already had an account)


Least Favorites --
Facebook - boring!
Instant Messaging
Twitter - YUCK!!

Killin' the Twitter bird but Tumblin' with Tumblr

Wow, almost done! Yeehaw.

So, I checked out Twitter and hated it! What the heck? No one wants to know that much about someone unless they are a stalker! Why would anyone waste their time logging on to that site, writing down the lame everyday activity they are currently doing and think that someone else in the world wants to know that they just had a cup of Joe? No thanks! Isn't there any mystery in relationships anymore?

Now, the Tumblr site I really liked? A lot like Bloglines but quicker to tag. I like that if I find an interesting website I just click the button and wham! it is on my Tumblr page. Very nice!

Videoland!

I added an awesome video to my blog about Cookie Monster in the library. A true classic.

These video websites are great, it is so nice to be able to find the most obscure things and add them to your blog, myspace page or whatever. The only thing I get tired of is the videos of scantily clad girls. It gets old.

YouTube and Sciencehack are my favorites. When I searched the other sites for videos every one of the videos I chose were videos from YouTube, so why use anything else? I'm sure there are reason, features or ease of use for uploading, but for my purposes YouTube works well.

Podcasting from the edge

Well, after a bunch of tries I finally got a podcast to play here on my computer at work. I have listened to podcasts before at home and though they are interesting, I just don't use them much. I did discover that I can listen to yoga podcasts on my ipod and I will start doing that for home practice. I did not find anything interesting to listen to about libraries so I ended up listening to Laura Bush read a story to school kids called "Mrs. Pickle." It wasn't very good, poor kids.

Music and Audio

This was interesting. I didn't get the radio thing at first, I mean why waste time with one of these sites when I can listen to my iPod or other music player? But, after talking with a work mate I can see where people would like this option. I personally could care less who else out there likes the same music I do, but others might want to talk to others that like the same bands or music style. Of the three sites offered I like Pandora best. It was fun to look up my favorite bands, watch videos and listen to music. One thing I liked about Last.fm was the top played list, I would use this to discover new bands I hadn't heard of before.
I thought that the Gutenberg.org site was torture! It is great that all these books are out there and someone has put them on the Internet for free for people to read, but good grief, I had eye strain after the first paragraph.
The one I loved was Mango Languages. I am trying to learn another language so this will be fun.

Google Docs -

This is very interesting. At first I could see that companies could really use this and that is about all, but after thinking about it and reading some more I see a whole lot of possibilities. I will start using this at home, since our new computer only came with a trail version of Microsoft Word and that is about done.

I am now trying to figure out how to post this on my blog and I am finding that I have to do a lot of digging to find out how to do some stuff. As I was digging I did find something that was kind of funny to me. Under Share, there is an option to "Email as attachment", isn't that what Lee LeFever in the video we had to watch at the beginning of this exercise said was so nice about Google Docs, that you did not have to email attachments to people? Whatever.

It just made me chuckle. :-)

Totally Cool Stuff!

I tried all of the suggested sites and liked most of them. Scrabulous and Wordshoot were my favorites. I was kind of annoyed with Sketchcast because you had to create an account to even try it out. With this Discover 2.0 program, I have made more accounts with different websites that I care to count and I did not want to make one more. It does look like a neat program though, I saw what a coworker did with his, and he did a awesome drawing.