#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!