Week 10 #23 The End

Well, here we are. Frankly, I'm surprised that I finished. Thoughts on the journey: I knew less about some things and more out about other things than I anticipated. Zoho is my favorite new thing... I'm going to introduce Zoho to the high school and junior high students that come into our branch. I still prefer my Yahoo avatar but I'm glad to know about Meez. I'm still sorting through my issues and concerns about online privacy. Sometimes, I wish I could be more open on the web but I am afraid that I will inadvertently get myself in trouble.I'm glad I have a better understanding of new technologies...even only so I don't have to say "I have no idea what you are talking about!" to a patron who asks me for assistance with one of them. Thanks :-)

Week 9 #22 Downloadable Media

I investigated the Overdrive offerings several years ago when Overdrive first became available from HCPL. I downloaded an audio version of Fahrenheit 451 to the player provided to the branches and then I ended up reading the hard copy version anyway (I needed to reread it for Books on the Bayou). I don't think this service will be useful to me unless I purchase a device so that I hook an audio book player into the sound system in my car (if one is even available). I pretty much prefer to read using my eyes (& by turning pages) unless circumstances prevent me from doing so such as when I'm driving. That said, I love having audio books to listen to in the car and my eyesight may not enable me to read text formats forever. LibriVox is really interesting. If I had more time, I would love to volunteer to record for the project WOWIO I am unlikely to use unless I or a patron need to get a hold of something quickly that isn't available any other way.

Week 9 #21 Podcasts

I added feeds to my Bloglines account for http://www.hpprogs.com/ a Harry Potter discussion & news podcast and for http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ a National Public Radio show. I looked at the listed podcast directories and noticed that many of the podcasts I found using keywords seemed to have only 5 or 6 episodes created and then the creators stopped adding them. I think I'm more likely to find podcasts because of word of mouth referrals than I am by searching the directories. That said, I did stumble across the hpprogs podcast because I was searching the directories and I'm glad I did!

Week 9 #20 Discover YouTube

I really like YouTube. It would be easy to spend too much time exploring the site. I'm not sure what features could/would be effective on a library website. I'm including a video from Vanessa Paradis. I was introduced to this artist recently and I am turning into a rabid fan.

Vanessa Paradis "Divine Idylle" making-of Épisode 1 : Studio




The embedded clip is showing up when I look at this posting using a laptop set to nofilter. I'm not sure why it won't show up on my library staff computer but I know I'm not the only person who has encountered this glitch.

zoho blog post

I sure would have appreciated Zoho when I was in graduate school. I was using Juno's webmail to access my papers both at home, at work, and at the library so that I could add to documents wherever & whenever I had a chance to edit them. Once, while working on a particularly difficult project, a disaster occurred. I accidentally overwrote the "main document" e-mail in my draft folder instead of saving the new information in a separate "additional research" e-mail. I lost several days worth of work (during a summer session)!!! According to Helene Blowers' "Welcome to Zoho Writer" article, Zoho would have let me restore the information I accidentally saved over. Boy, that would have been handy. :-)

Week 8 #19 Web-based apps

I posted my comments on Zoho from Zoho after writing them down in Zoho. Pretty cool.

Week 8 #18 Social Networking part 2

Well, I've looked at several of the sites listed for discovery purposes. I think I like Yahoo 360 best. Ning is interesting because of its flexibility. I may look into creating a Ning page for EV's anime club. Linkedin frustrated me because payment is required fully use the site. I had hoped to find some of the people I worked with when I was in the MLS program I graduated from.


Update... It turns out I just had to click the link in my e-mail to use the Linkedin feature that I needed. :-)