#23

Yippeeeee!!!!!!!! I honestly didn't think that I'd get this far.
But I can say that I have had a lot of fun and learnt lots about WiKi's, blogs, RSS feeds etc.
Prior to beginning the 23 Things project, I couldn't even upload photos ( sad but true) !
What's really great is that I'll be able to apply most of this new knowledge to my Librarianship course this year. Now all I need to do is to win the laptop and I'll be set for Uni!
I did hit a bit of a stumbling block earlier in the 23 things, but with a bit of encouragement from my co-workers, I managed to figure it all out!
Anyway, I have to say that I'm very proud of myself and I'm hoping to sign up next year for the Library Worker 2.0.
And last but not least, thank-you to Lynette and Denise and all my DV & Eltham co-workers for their help and encouragement.

#22

This week I tried getting into the Netlibrary site but couldn't access it, so after I located the alternative on the YPRL blog, I had a look around at World EBook Fair.
I found lots of classics to download and also had a look around the Gutenberg Project.
I've been wanting an MP3 player for a while ( yes, I'm a little behind in this technology, I still have a portable CD player!) so I found heaps of audio books that I'd like to download. I think they're free on the Gutenberg site. The first one will be "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe.

#21

I have looked through all three podcasting sites, but I found Podcastalley the easiest to use.
I subscribed to something called "Mugglecast". It's a series of reviews by Harry Potter fans of the previous stories and the upcoming book.
I was amazed at all the podcasts you can subscribe to. Very cool.

#20

I had used YouTube before to watch the "Mentos in the Coke" video where the Mentos creates a fountain in the Coke bottle. That was clever. But there are so many videos under so many categories, it's a great way to share family videos and funny experiences.
The video I chose was called "Cat's Head Theatre" where a group of cats act out a scene from Hamlet. Very cool. It had been viewed 851909 times and 5400 people had added it to they're favourites list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbK1eCt97ag
I likes that YouTube was so easy to use but sometimes I was a bit unsure about the content of some of the videos (little kiddies in the room with me).

#19

I had a look at the winner for the Real Estate section in the Web 2.0 list - www.propmart.com
Wow, the houses over there are so beautiful but sooooooooo expensive!
They all look like something out of a Home Beautiful!
The site itself was very similar to realestate.com.au or domain. Very easy to navigate, much the same sort of search options except that I don't know where these places are in relation to each other!

#18

I signed into Zoho writer, that was easy enough. I had look around and added some templates to my account such as recipes, homework diaries etc. I started trying to edit and maybe change the recipe for one of my own but couldn't get it right. Then I tried having a go of Google Docs and did a fake birthday party invitation for my daughter and was very impressed with myself when I managed to ad my own image of her to the invitation!
Unfortunatley I don't think I saved it b/c now I can't find it!
Useful tools for home businesses, students, anyone!

#17

Yippee!! Another one down! That was easy ( unless I've done something wrong).
I added my blog to the list, had a look around at peoples favourite TV shows, restaurants (though most are in America, I gather) and generally had a good old sticky nose.

#16

Wiki's are pretty cool! I've discovered some interesting applications for them, eg: organising school reunions, wiki cookbooks where recipes are trialled and edited and reviewed with success stories or flops! Within the library perhaps they would be useful for Book Groups and include reviews suggestions for further reading - a bit of a book blog!
I came across "Library Success - Pest Practices Wiki" which I had encountered in Thing #13(?).
I found an interesting entry about what a couple of libraries in America are doing about getting parents to read to kids. I've included the link for you to have a look at ( I hope).
www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Getting_Kids_to_Read

#15

I read 3 of the perspectives listed: "Into a new world of Librarianship", "To better bibliographic services" & " To a temporary place in time".
I found them all very interesting because I'm trying to imagine what the role of the Librarian will be when I've finished my course.
I'm really interested in the archiving, cataloguing and preservation of old books and journals etc, and preserving history. But I also like the thought of finding new ways and new technology for locating information as the technology becomes available.

#14

I had a look around Technorati and did the searches for "Learning 2.0".
I'm still a little confused by all of this but as far as I can see the search under "blog posts" worked a little like Google, it searched for the two separate words "Learning" and "2.o" so it wasn't very specific. The "tag" search, obviously, brought up "Everything in the known universe tagged Learning 2.0" from photos, podcasts, the people who use the tag etc. And in "Blog directories" they blogs that came up seemed to mainly library related.
To be honest, I wasn't quite sure what I was looking for in "popular blog, searches & tags" but I did have a look around and found a hilarious video from the American "Saturday Night Live". A bit off topic, but very, very funny.

#13

In this task, I found something that could come in very handy for me this year. I'm about to start studying for Librarianship and the Del.icio.us tool would be a great way for me to research and save articles tagged under a specific subject code or assignment number. I guess a lot of people would use it for the same reason but also just to gather items of interest under the one tag.
I had a look at the "Library Success - A Best practices Wiki" which had been saved by 32 people who had tagged it similarly.
As with the other tools and sites I'm discovering, I'll go back after finishing the 23 things and learn how to use them a little better but I'm under a bit of pressure to get this finished by the 26th.
I think I'll go back when I've got time, create a del.icio.us account for myself and definitely use for my studying this year.

#12

I found Rollyo a little confusing. I understand the concept and it's a great idea but I had trouble trying to add sites and look around Rollyo. I kept getting the message: "didn't connect - too many connections".
Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, but I managed to put two sites of my own in.
Anyway, here's the link:
www.rollyo.com/toobusy74/

#11

That was a very cool site. I should catalogue my whole bookshelf/ shelves. Than again that would take quite a while.
I will probably go back after I've finished the 23 things and play around with the catalogue some more.
Here's the link to my 5 books (so far), I hope it works!
www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=toobusy74

#8

I have now created my own Bloglines account and found some interesting RSS feeds!
It wasn't too hard, I 've subscribed to news feeds, The Shifted Librarian, Word of the Day and quite a few others. Just wondering what happens as the feeds pile up and I don't read them all?!?

#10

Yay!!! I did it! I Warholised my kids and here they are!
That wasn't so bad. There were so many cool toys to play with, from Borat to Harry Potter, CD covers etc.
I had a look at the other but in the end used FD's toys.
Very cool.

#9

I found this task easier than a lot of the others (assuming that I've done the others correctly).
I found Feedster the easiest to use and locate RSS feeds to subscribe to.
Topix was pretty easy becauseI found it quite similar to google which I am familiar with.
But I found Syndic8 's layout quite confusing so I didn't get too far with that one.
I ended up only subscribing to one feed about horoscopes, I think I used Feedster.
I'm still a little confused by the whole thing, though.