THING 23 FINALE

23 Things was very interesting to see all of the new technologies that are available to anyone who has access to a computer. Maryland Libraries Learning 2.0 taught me alot about new growing trends in the libraries. Just setting up a blog and being able to add information each time I learned something new is amazing to me. I learned a little about Flickr, RSS feeds, image generators,LibraryThing, Rollyo, Del.icio.us, Technorati, wikis , YouTube's and NetLibrary. When a patron comes in and asks about these I can say I have heard of them. The library system is moving forward ,and with all the new technology out there we each have to learn new discoveries each day, and with 23 Things I feel I have moved ahead .
The only draw back I see with the program was TIME, it took more than 15 minutes a day, more like one hour.

THING 22 DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOKS

I went into Project Gutenburg and found most of the books to download were mostly classics. This would be ideal for high school students needing to read the classics and not being able to find a copy at their library, they could just download the book and listen! NetLibrary I liked because they did have some current titles, but I didn't want to sign up again. The directions to download were easy.

Thing 21 podcasts

This is really interesting, it's like having your talk radio on all the time. The yahoo podcast seems very easy to use. Npr books seems like a good site.
http://podcasts.yahoo.com/player?s=905a83909b72cf1277ee97d5e560c1ef&e

Podcasting might be something the library could do with our new books, have patrons discuss their favorite books.

Thing 20 youtube

I liked this site, enjoyed looking at video's. The library domino was neat, someone must have a lot of time on their hands.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwihz7iZlx0

Thing 19 Web 2.0 Awards List

I tried a few sites from the awards list. I really liked http://www.pandora.com/ easy to use and a great site if you like music.(I do!!!) I tried lulu for books didn't like this site at all. I also tried
http://www.yelp.com/pittsburgh-pa this site was easy to use if your going on a trip and need some quick fun places to see and do, like resturants.

Thing 18 Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Looking at some productivity tools Google Docs & Spreadsheets. This was hard for me because I don't use excel, so I just made up a short list of ez books ordered for August. I hope this works ! I should be able to go back into this site and up date.
.http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pWHrGr5SJVZu0itsd6SRQGQ&hl=en_US

THING 17 SANDBOX WIKI

This site is neat, not hard to use.


http://marylandlibrariessandbox.pbwiki.com/Things-I--like-about-summer