Podcasts

Accessed these site for podcasts - neither featured videos with the "cast" - however, did find a few that did - http://podcastalley.com/search.php?searchterm=rolling+stones
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html. Had a hard time finding book reviews on Podcastalley & Odeo so Googled "book review podcasts" and found many.

Didn't find much use for podcasts - except to listen to good music! However, I think they'd be great to use to send out "casts" to listeners advertising upcoming events.

YouTube

Viewed CCLS contest winners and trailer for new movie Marley & Me - http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=marley+%26+me+&search_type=

Youtube would be a great vehicle for bringing storytimes to children who are unable to attend and other library programs for all ages.

Social Networking

MySpace, Facebook, Microblogging – very valuable for libraries to communicate and provide up-to-date information - as long as the info is kept up-to-date and when questions are asked on the sites - sender receives a timely response. These also need to be monitored to assure there are no comments, photos, etc. that "offensive stuff" does not appear.

Web 2.0 Tools

Accessed http://www.last.fm/ and searched Keith Richards (by now everyone probably knows he's my favorite artist!) The site was easy to navigate, user friendly and provided numerous tools to access videos, photos, similar artists - there were lots of options.

Web-Based Apps

Sorry...don't like this application. It took me a 1/2 hour to create a document with photos - found difficult to add & move the photos. Would rather use my regular applications which would have taken me only 5 minutes to create the document I created in Zoho.

http://export.writer.zoho.com/ZExport.do?tstamp=8,12,2008

Playing with PBWiki

It was fun adding "toys" to the sandbox and viewing others favorites. I added a few favorite books and restaurants.

#15 What's in a Wiki

Visited this site: http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/YALSA_at_the_2008_ALA_Annual_Conference

This wiki was good – provided a complete schedule of events and other interesting items such as places to visit.

A wiki would be very useful for planning an event in which a committee is involved. To keep everyone on track and to allow all to see what has been completed and what still needs to be completed.

#13 Technorati

Explored Library 2.0 via photos, tags, videos & popular blog....got variety of results for each.

http://www.technorati.com/photos/tag/library+2.0
http://www.technorati.com/photos/tag/social+software
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/mashable.com

#14 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

Read 2 articles via http://delicious.com/ccls23things/library2.0

The Essence of Library 2.0 by Meredith Farkas

Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian: Why Learn This Stuff? by David Lee King
Agree with King we need to be ready for the next generation, teach the current generation and bea community leader...these are our goals as libraries! A good programming idea would be to offer Flicker, YouTube, Facebook, etc. workshops to seniors...a great, fun way for them to keep in touch with family and friends.

Delicious

Delicious has a wealth of information sharing to discover further topics of specific subject interests.

http://delicious.com/tags/ccls23things

Library Thing

Great to add my favorite titles and view similar books to read. Now to find time to read all these!
http://www.librarything.com/addbooks

Created Magazine Cover

Completed #10 – fun & easy exercise.
http://flickr.com/photos/rayloco/292249270/?addedcomment=1#comment72157608869785039
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/magazine.php

Lesson 7: Portable DVD Player

Commented on portable DVD player that has a nice size screen, 14", and can play movies and music but best of all, those classic Nintendo games that have been sitting on the shelf.

http://technabob.com/blog/2008/10/30/portable-dvd-player-gets-huge-screen-plays-nes-games/#comments

Erin Trading Card

Had fun making a trading card - could do this all day!
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

Completed Lessons

Have completed the following lessons:
Set up blog - took awhile but have the hang of it
Registered blog - very simple

Discovered Flickr

Just discovered Flickr. It was easy. Instead of taking a photo in the library I uploaded a photo of my newly renovated home.

Lifelong Learning Habits

Easiest lifelong habit: play & be curious
Hardest lifelong habit: using technology to my advantage