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

The title of this entry says it all - This is the end of this exercise but just the beginning of continual learning of the huge variety of information and sharing of it over the internet. It seems that we have come a long way since the early 1990s when Darebin Libraries first got the internet and the future is almost impossible to imagine - humans are so inventive!

One of my favourite sites that I still remember is Librarything - which I will try to develop for myself, and I will listen to some podcasts and download an audiobook. There has been so much to learn- I hope that I retain enough. Signing out of Library 2.0!

#22 Audiobooks ('or The end is in sight")

I looked at the audiobook site - http://worldebookfair.com/Mp3eBooks.htm and had a look at Titles of great literature - which included famous works by Beatrix Potter, Grimm Brothers, Arthur Conan Doyle and Shakespeare. The children's literature collection was interesting also.
I will download one of these books at home on my children's ipod!

#21 Podcasts, smodcasts!

Podcasts can be great and I recently realised their potential when I had missed a broadcast on Radio Melbourne 774 and was able to listen to the podcast on my computer. Until then I had thought that you need an Ipod or MP3 player to hear one - so this was great to find it so simple!

For this exercise I browsed through the podcast directory - http://www.podcast.net/ and found a RSS feed on the Arts -Books and poetry which I added to the Bloglines Account.

#20 You too can Youtube

Youtube provides one of the funniest learning experiences of the Learning 2.0 exercise. I watched the Egg Song which someone had mentioned on a blog in a previous exercise. This had links to related food songs such as the carrot song, the cucumber song and the milk song.
A colleague recommended Kiwi and the Evolution of Dance which were both funny to watch. Beware - You need lots of time to explore this Online video sharing site - called YOUTUBE.

#19 Discovering web 2.0 tools

What a great idea - awards for the very best sites in the Web 2.0 sphere! There are 41 topics with the best three sites listed plus honorable mentions. It is great to browse through as
many of the sites we have learnt about in the exercise are there eg. Flickr under the topic
Photos and digital images, and Rollyo under Search. In a library setting this list would
be great to access and use or recommend.
Access the awards on: http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0#cat_53

#18 (Continued) Adding zoho.writer to my blog - it worked!

Zoho writer is an online word processor that allow you to created and share documents online. You need not install any software in your desktop and it is accessed over the internet. Other friends or colleagues can then add and alter the document from their

computers - this is a great feature. Pictures can easily be added

and posts sent to your own blog!

Zoho writer can be found at http://www.blogger.com/

#18 Web-based Apps: they're not just for desktops

I have explored zoho writer and created a few test documents.
Once again here is another tool that is a wonderful idea and
makes sharing of information that much more efficient!

# 17 Playing around with PBWiki

Adding the title of my blog to the favourites wiki went well and I enjoyed exploring

the different favourites listed - such as favourite vacations or holidays!

#16 So what's in a wiki?

Wikis at least seemed familiar to start off with - as nearly everyone would have come across Wikipedia when searching the internet. It was great to discover library wikis that had lots of very pertinent information. I particularly liked Library Success : a best practices wiki and spent quiet a bit of time exploring the topics. The Readers Advisory area was great and I enjoyed Book Groups and Recommending Books.

http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Wikis have lots of great uses in libaries especially from the readers advisory point of view - for booklists, website recommendations, reference sources - all sorts of things!

#15 Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

John Reimer's - "To better Bibliographic Services" struck a cord with me as I am in the Bibliographic Services team at Darebin Libraries. Libraries have certainly had a history of cooperatively sharing cataloguing and thus I read with interest of the possible uses of streamlining metadata creation. It makes sense to enhance sharing of information in much deeper ways through technology. Rick Anderson's - Away from the Iceberg's was quite accessible also and made me think carefully about those 3 major icebergs that threaten libraries - 1.The just in case collection 2.Reliance on user education 3.The Come-to-us model of library service. I agree heartily that libraries need to acknowledge and adapt to fundamental changes in our marketplaces!

#14 Getting not so technical with Technorati

Technorati is the leading search tool and authority for blogs.
Considering that Technorati says that last year over 50 million blogs
were tracked by them, this is huge! I explored Technorati and found
14,880 posts of blogs for the term 'learning 2.0' and 931 actual blogs.
Searching one of my favourite subjects for this exercise 'Jack Russells'
resulted in 196 blogs. The popular section in Technorati is interesting
to visit with 'Top Favourited Blogs' - Boing Boing is at the top of the list.

#13 Tagging and social bookmarking in del.icio.us

Social bookmarking seems to be a very smart concept and is great for
sharing favourite websites using tags which are made public.
Sharing great websites on similar topics and finding what other people
have discovered allows you to explore your topic on a deeper level.