Tuesday, October 31, 2006

I've finished!! Yeah!! I was hesitant at first to dig in my heels and have fun, but after playing around with the sites it allowed me to see what is out there for us. This program has allowed me to spread my wings within cyberspace -- there are many, many beautiful stars around!!
Thanks to all at plcmc who made this journey possible!!

Saturday, October 28, 2006

NetLibrary
I succesfully downloaded a short title. I'd rather check something out from the library though.
Podcastally
I was really disappointed in this site. It was difficult to search for information. If I want to listen to a NPR broadcast, I'd rather just go to the NPR site.
Videos: I enjoyed looking through these videos. I have one to share
Slide.com
As someone who loves taking pictures, but can never keep up with them, this is a handy site for allowing you to upload photos and putting them together in a slide show. I use this often to send photos home to my sisters.
Online Word Processing
This is such a wonderful tool!! This allows one person who may have Word send a document to someone else who has a different program. It allows for universality of the document so that it can be edited easily. It also allows groups who may be around the world from each other do a project together.
Sandbox
Adding myself to Sandbox was very easy.
Wikis-- help provide quick information to keep people up-to-date on a variety of subjects.
Web 2.0 Article By Michael Stephens
While I agree with Michael Stephens that we should stay current on technological advancements, especially when we are serving people who are creating these advancements; there are definite downfalls to this, since we are overloaded with information and new advancements while at the same time trying to live life. It is not a perfect world, but we should do the best we can.
Tags are useful for providing links via keywords for other people who want information. I could use the word "meditation" or "balance" to link sites for meditation classes or studios. The down side to tags is : they are not policed, so one could be led to a site that has spam....
Del.icio.us
This site is simply delicious. It has allowed me to save my favorite sites to this one site, without storing on my hard drive. And I can created tags within these to link other sites and to share information with like-minded people.
Rollyo allows me to make a list of my favorite sites relating a specific subject.http://www.rollyo.com/editroll.html
Library Thing allows one to find titles in relation to subject. But one could not browse the book for information. It would be more interesting if the site had reviews of each title. This link would probably be good for someone who already read the book and wants others to read it.
Here is my library.





These image generators are made from a wide variety of materials. From pretzels to hair. Very fun and interesting!!
Library Related Feeds -- finding LRF on bloglines was very easy! I signed up for "Pages Turned" and "The Shifted Librarian".
RSS Readers saves me so much time by bringing information to me from different sites that I usually have to check one at a time. It also reminds me of what sites are important to me.
Flickr allows me to add photos to my poetry. What an extra bonus for the reader!!