Week 9 No 23 The beginning

The beginning of my journey into Learning 2.0 certainly not the end. I always loved the challenge of learning. This course was a big challenge, each exercise presented its difficulties and certainly did not take half an hour a week to complete. I enjoyed Flickr, YouTube, Mashups, Rollyo and blogging. I enjoyed taking my knowledge of the internet to a new level. Now not only can I search the internet but I have taken my very fist tentative steps to joining the world online community. Its a bit scary as I haven't quiet grasped the concept of staying anonymous. I need to be more mindful of my personal space in this online world. My next challenge is to

1. Read an Online book.
2. See if I can contact some lost High School Friends on Facebook.
3. Continue blogging.
4. Set up a blog for my daughter's kindergarten.

and sign myself up for the next installment, there will be another installment I hope.

A big thankyou to Paul for help over the last 12 weeks.

Week 9 No 21 Podcasts

I can't get the podcasts to work that I have searched and found. The searching techniques on all three podcast search tools were quite easy to use. All three had categories that made browsing easy. I can see that this has great application for training, and sharing training all round the world. I would be great if ERL used this to communicate to borrowers, with messages about new books, how to use the library more effectively, especially online resources.

Week 9 No 22 Downloadables audio book

I had a look and listen to http://worldbookfair.com/Mp3eBooks.htm

The concept of ebooks is an interesting one, where libraries can purchase ebooks than make them available to patrons. Much like ERl already does. It was suggested in this exercise that these audio files could be loaned by library users saved onto their mp3 players and when the loan period is over the file is automatically deleted from their mp3, no more overdue fees, or lost cassettes/cds or scratched or damaged originals. I listened to Edgar Allan Poe's A dream within a dream, and Samuel Taylor's The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

I don't mind talking books at all, so I quite enjoyed listening to these downloadable audio books.

Week 8 No 19 Web 2.0 Awards

I had a look at Maps and Mapping award winners and went into http://maps.google.com/ Had Some fun playing withe the satellite search as I have seen this on the television of late. I searched Malta, Croydon, The Great wall of China, and The Sydney Opera House. It is just amazing how easy it is to get this impressive imagery and maps up.

Week 9 No 20 YouTube

Wow, I'm using YouTube, how exciting. I looked up Ford Falcon GTHO, and found some fantastic videos that I will share with my husband. We had these cars for our Wedding day in 2003. They were worth the expense. I was drag raced to my wedding and to my photo shoot. I am not really interested in cars, my husband is, they didn't really match my cathedral Vail, my long white dress, and my lovely red roses, but they made my husband happy.

I have followed the instructions to copy one video to my blog, lets see if it works...




And guess what it does. YouTube is fun! I cant see that businesses would find a lot of staff wasting work time by playing on this. Some ERl applications could be to video Author talks and post these to YouTube, with the authors permission of course. Maybe for some Training ERL could YouTube a presentation, this would be great for us part timers with kids. Maybe you could even relaunch the ERL logo on YouTube.

Week 8 No 18 Onine productivity

I posted this poem from Zoho writer, wihtout cutting and pasting. I'm smoking tonight...

A poem

I went to a Catholic primary school in Victoria.

This is a poem that I was taught, 32 years ago.

Sex is evil

Evil is sin

Sin is forgiven

So sex is in

No the Nuns did not teach me this.

I always thought that this would be a useful bit of knowledge.

From the last exercise I learnt that I learn slowly, and what should take 5 minutes took me 22 minutes, to complete, which held up another online user in the wiki exercise. A clear reason why it would have been better to select an anonymous blog name, rather than dumb dumb using her actual name. Time for some more tiny teddies... Online productivity tools allow users to share documents over the net. Without needing to worry about different software versions. And as I discovered it is very easy to publish posts to your blog. Zoho writer was very easy to use, if you are used to using Microsoft Office than Zoho writer is simple to use. I signed up, to blog my document I went in the frequently asked questions area and followed the instructions.

Week 7 No 17 Learning 2.0 Sandbox Wiki

Today I played in the PBwiki Learning2.0 wiki sandbox. I added my favourite place 'Malta'. It was very easy to add am image and a comment. I just went into edit page, insert image, I wrote my blog comment and saved.I found 'marking my adventure' a little more difficult as i was competing with another participant to edit and saved. i kept getting some message that sent me to the pantry for some Tinny Teddy bikkies, however my aim is to finish this online learning by Sunday so with perseverance I managed to succeed in placing my mark. Forward and onwards to the next learning exercise....