Archive for September 25, 2007

#30 Summary

Wow! There’s a lot of tools available out there! And to think, we may have covered 30 or more, but there’s so many more out there, and more are being developed every day! I was familiar with most of the tools in Learning 2.0, but there were some I’d never heard of before and some I didn’t know too much about. I had not heard about Grokker before, nor mashups, Rollyo or Zoho. Each of these were very interesting, and I can see myself using them more on my own, and letting others know about them.

I really enjoyed Flickr, image generators, LibraryThing, and the web 2.0 awards. I’m completely fascinated by most of the web 2.0 tools, but my least favorite I’d have to say was MySpace. I just can’t get into it, the sites are so busy and cluttered, I don’t know how others make sense of some of them. I think I’m going to continue to customize and use a few of the sites I didn’t already have accounts with: Rollyo, Technorati, Google labs, and some of the web 2.0 award-winners.

This was definitely an interesting adventure. I love learning new technologies and tools, I’d be interested in hearing what new ones others have found. The only tool I’ve come up with so far is TiddlyWiki, which I’ve mentioned earlier in this blog. Thanks to the committee for putting this together!

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#09 Library-related blogs

I found quite a few blogs on the LISWiki: I enjoy the Digital Librarian, he writes about tech stuff and how they relate to libraries and being a librarian. Then I found The Other Librarian, who blogs about Library 2.0, and a lot of the topics we’re working on for Learning 2.0. I could browse this long list all day, and keep adding them to my Bloglines, so I can continue to keep up with them. There are a lot of library blogs out there!

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#21 Podcast search tools

I used Podcast.net to find a few library/book podcasts, as Yahoo!s site says they’ll be closing the site September 30. I didn’t want to link to something that wouldn’t be there in a week, so I didn’t even bother looking there. I did find a podcast for What’s New at the Lunar and Planetary Institute Library. I also found one by Powell’s bookstore in Portland, the Bookcast.  I can see the usefulness of podcasts, especially in training and book reviews.  The topic I wanted to look up (knitting) had quite a few podcasts available.  I’ve heard of a few, and even tried listening to one, but I think I’ll have to try again later, as I just couldn’t get into a knitting podcast.  Book and movie reviews, though, that’s more interesting.  Also using podcasts for keeping patrons up-to-date with library happenings, and again, possibly with basic FAQs might be helpful.

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#22 ListenAlaska and Gutenberg

Wow! I remember in library school when Gutenberg was just beginning! My instructors mentioned how Michael Hart had started the project, and I think I was even on a mailing list about it! Looking at the website now, it sure has changed and evolved, as has the internet! I can not only view the etexts of books, listen to audio formats, but even donate by PayPal and volunteer to edit! It seemed like such a small enterprise when I first heard about it, for such a big project. It’s nice to see that it’s still going strong, and books are being added all the time!

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