Wow! Here's the last post.
My favorite discoveries: making a blog, wikis, tagging, rss feeds, del.icio.us.
Wish I'd interacted more with others doing the program. However, just making the discoveries and doing the exercises took plenty of time.
I will look for ways to integrate the Web 2.0 tools into both my personal and professional life. It'll take some rethinking and retraining of habits to make the shift into the interactive web-hosted environment. There are so many places to store things these days--web hosted sites, servers, desktops, flash drives, external drives. Sometimes it just gets confusing as to what is where and in what format.
Sayonara . . .
Sunday, May 4, 2008
eAudiobooks
I love that the classics have been recorded first, and are available for free! It's a great way for those with reading challenges to access literature.
Personally, I'm not all that keen on listening to fiction. I'd rather read it, but that's me.
Also, I wish they would have professionals do the readings. The quality varies so much with the ones that are done by volunteers, and that makes all the difference.
http://librivox.org/railway-children-by-e-nesbit/
A great way for parents who can't read to have stories read to their children.
Personally, I'm not all that keen on listening to fiction. I'd rather read it, but that's me.
Also, I wish they would have professionals do the readings. The quality varies so much with the ones that are done by volunteers, and that makes all the difference.
http://librivox.org/railway-children-by-e-nesbit/
A great way for parents who can't read to have stories read to their children.
Podcasts
I like this site for locating podcasts: http://www.podcastbunker.com/
I subscribed to the NY Times Front Page. It's like radio on demand without the commercials. Very fast way to get updated on news, weather, comedy . . . from all over the country.
Not sure I have the time or the interest to create a podcast, but can definitely see application for it. What about a podcast on HartfordInfo welcoming and showing people around the site. Or podcasts that are available to go along with our How To? drop down list on the home page? Possibilities are endless!
I subscribed to the NY Times Front Page. It's like radio on demand without the commercials. Very fast way to get updated on news, weather, comedy . . . from all over the country.
Not sure I have the time or the interest to create a podcast, but can definitely see application for it. What about a podcast on HartfordInfo welcoming and showing people around the site. Or podcasts that are available to go along with our How To? drop down list on the home page? Possibilities are endless!
Blogging You Tube
Well, that was pretty cool . . . so easy to put the You Tube clip in my blog!
In library land, I can see uploading clips of author and music performances, community forums, informational programs. CT Book Awards. What a great way to draw more attention to our online media recordings.
In library land, I can see uploading clips of author and music performances, community forums, informational programs. CT Book Awards. What a great way to draw more attention to our online media recordings.
U tube
You tube is addictive! It's incredible how much time goes by just surfing around. I like using the tags to find recordings of a particular piece of music, particularly violin concertos. Some great black and white footage of old masters, who I have heard on recordings, but never seen footage of, like this one:
Menuhin plays Bruch violin concerto no1, the conductor is Ferenc Fricsay.
1st movement
I wish it said what year!
Menuhin plays Bruch violin concerto no1, the conductor is Ferenc Fricsay.
1st movement
I wish it said what year!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Web aps
What a great list of web apps. I've added it to my del.icio.us bookmarks so I can check out more of them (in my copious spare time between 1 and 5 a.m. Who needs sleep?)
I'm surprised by how many of them I've heard of and used. I like Pandora. It's a fun way to listen to some new artists, and fun to see who they classify as similar to someone I like.
Zillow is great for watching the housing market. Seeing what properties are selling for in the neighborhood. Recently, a house was foreclosed on across the street after falling into disrepair. Someone (builder?) has bought it and fixed it up. It'll be interesting to see if he/she turns around and sells it, and how much for.
I checked out colorblender for the first time, which is an app that lets you identify a base color, then provides five matching colors. It's an easy way to establish a palette, although the choices seem rather predictable. It'd be cool if the developer expanded this so that you could select complementary colors, or accent colors etc.
What's amazing is seeing the apps that are being bought up by Google. Be great to create one of those!
I'm surprised by how many of them I've heard of and used. I like Pandora. It's a fun way to listen to some new artists, and fun to see who they classify as similar to someone I like.
Zillow is great for watching the housing market. Seeing what properties are selling for in the neighborhood. Recently, a house was foreclosed on across the street after falling into disrepair. Someone (builder?) has bought it and fixed it up. It'll be interesting to see if he/she turns around and sells it, and how much for.
I checked out colorblender for the first time, which is an app that lets you identify a base color, then provides five matching colors. It's an easy way to establish a palette, although the choices seem rather predictable. It'd be cool if the developer expanded this so that you could select complementary colors, or accent colors etc.
What's amazing is seeing the apps that are being bought up by Google. Be great to create one of those!
dear creator
Dear creator of Zoho Writer--
Will you make flash drives obsolete? The possibility defnitely exists since people will no longer need to email themselves documents that have been saved to a server.
Not sure I'm into the tagging idea of filing. I like my files in one folder, and keeping my folders clearly labeled so I can go back. Rarely does my system frustrate me.
This is so amazingly similar to Word. Microsoft doesn't have copyright issues???????????
Time to try saving, page view, and publishing this to my blog.
Oh, and I just had to come back and edit. This can be saved as a pdf!!!!!!!!! That's awesome.
Well, and then, I thought I'd try the tags, since it was one of the questions for posting to the blog.
Oh, and then I really like that you can just update the blog posting if you edit.
And check that out. An easy way to add a rule.
This could possibly be easier than Word.
What about print options? Oh I get it. That's only print as a pdf, not save as a pdf.
Technorati Tags zoho,writer,making,pdf
Will you make flash drives obsolete? The possibility defnitely exists since people will no longer need to email themselves documents that have been saved to a server.
Not sure I'm into the tagging idea of filing. I like my files in one folder, and keeping my folders clearly labeled so I can go back. Rarely does my system frustrate me.
This is so amazingly similar to Word. Microsoft doesn't have copyright issues???????????
Time to try saving, page view, and publishing this to my blog.
Oh, and I just had to come back and edit. This can be saved as a pdf!!!!!!!!! That's awesome.
Well, and then, I thought I'd try the tags, since it was one of the questions for posting to the blog.
Oh, and then I really like that you can just update the blog posting if you edit.
And check that out. An easy way to add a rule.
This could possibly be easier than Word.
What about print options? Oh I get it. That's only print as a pdf, not save as a pdf.
Technorati Tags zoho,writer,making,pdf
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