Week 9 Thing 23 Summary

23 Things is Rejuvenating! I haven't felt so renewed in my library work since moving to S. Cumberland where the kids keep you thinking young. Thanks for taking some of the mystery out of what they are into now!

Summer was a good time to play at this, and 23 was just the right length with the fastest moving experiences at the end, when you're getting pretty tired of creating accounts, logins, and passwords. Glad we were given the choice of whether we felt comfortable enough with the site to open an account.

This is a gut feeling; but it seems being on the eve of Web 2.0, that many of these sites may not make it unless they start charging. One site said as much, that their sponsors are not support enough to run broad band. So it seems that 2007-2008 may be the two years in history in which the World Wide Web functions as dreamers like myself have envisioned it: largely FREE, unconstrained with video tools, so that the poorest in the world could participate, so that those who have different learning styles, including those with handicaps, have greater opportunities to have their contributions to this world seen and heard.

I like discovery, so I probably would participate in future opportunities like this one.

Week 9 Thing 22 Audiobooks

The Manual of Surgery is #1 on Project Gutenberg; what are people doing, operating on themselves? And, it's not even copyrighted??? but it is a 6th ed.. I'm real curious, but don't have time to check that one out.

Was surprised to find the Tao Teh King, which I don't know exactly what it is; but it does look like it has the Tao material that Dr. Wayne Dyer has been talking about on public TV.

Also looks like the Poe stories we are using for "One Book, One Allegany County" are available to listen and read here.

Week 9 Thing 21 podcasts

http://feeds.feedburner.com/houndTV-podcasts Is somewhat interesting. Haven't found any podcasts I really liked yet.

Week 9 Thing 20 YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_W1KrUZ5A
tagged under people, Title: A Message to dead beat dads...from Dejuanp

The site is terrific, easy to use, loaded quickly, grouping works.
This video shows to me that it doesn't take alot of money for advertising anymore. And if you have a really good message, it will stand out!
And, it is the gread equalizer, coming from all corners of the earth, from all races, all ages, all economic and educational levels. YouTube should also show us the way to what services patrons will need from the library to be effective in this world: maybe a video-recording booth? or weekly video-recording sessions?

Week 8 Web 2.0 Awards

Guess-the-google, I couldn't even guess one of them! So settled on "One Sentence" as my favorite. What a site!!! As a writer of very, very, very long, most likely boring sentences, picking this site will show that I can appreciate brevity! Putting your story into one sentence is something they should teach all children, in Writing 101. What a great writing exercise to use with kids, to teach them to sum up what a book is about, esp for in book-suggestion blogs, or bookmarks. Easy to read! Tags cover nearly everything! Most popular are designated! Has a RSS feed.

Week 8 Thing 18 online productivity tools

Liked this, all except having to give them my password to my blog. That's why my doc isn't here. Zoho Writer has some features I wish Word had.

Week 6 Thing 15 Web 2.0 & libraries

It was by accident that I'm working on Thing 15 at this time, but it couldn't have worked out any more perfect. Presently I'm writing the pr for "Teen Lair" the library's new Teen site on MySpace. Having looked at survey material from The National School Boards Association, followed by the rebuttal written by Nancy Willard nwill...@csriu.org
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D. Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use http://csriu.org

All this info left me in a quagmire. Reading the stuff on Web 2.0 allowed me to think staight for myself!