thing 23

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 . . .

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.

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!

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.

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!