Week 9: Podcasts, Video & Downloadable audio

I am very experienced with you tube and they have some great videos here is one of my favorites:





Podcasts are a very innovative way to broadcast information insead of having to read a lecture you can listen or watch a podcast. My siblings are homeschooled and they watch a podcast or almost every lesson. There is a proffessor that gives a lecture via podcast and its like having a teacher there in front of you.

I found that i really like the downloadable audiobooks. i never really listened to books on tape or cd because i thought that they would not be able to hold my attention while driving. I convinced my dad to download one onto his mp3 player and he loves it!!!

I think that this program helped to inform me about all different kinds of technology and things that i would never play with before i learned how to use. My favorite part was posting my favorite you tube video, lol, and playing with flicker.

Week 8: Online Applications & Tools

I like the online applications like Google docs. I like the fact that you dont have to download anything or have anything on your operating system like microsoft word. It is very easy to use and it has sreadsheets and stuff also....way cool!!!

My favorite thing in the web 2.0 awards was....the GAMES of course lol. I love playing online games and finding new addicting ones evry day :) This was a very good games site and im already addicted to the fleabag vs. mutt game...its great!!! lol

Week 7: Wikis

I think that in general wikis are a good idea but in reality the fact that anyone can go in and change or add to the information is a good thing and bad. People who actually know what they are talking about could change it for the better but if someone just wanted to mess around they could get into it and just add random information that might not be true or factual.

Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati

Tagging is something i am very familar with. When i was using fliker it was fun to look things up by using tags. Using tags is a good idea although you must keep in mind that people are putting their own tags on photos and such so if you put "dogs" in as a search word you might come with all sorts of photos lol.

In technorati i looked up learnning 2.0 as suggested in the discovery excercise and found some interesting blogs about other poeple doing the same 23 things. Its interesting to see what other people are blogging about.

After reading the "Away From Iceburgs" perspective about 2.0 i can say that i agree comletely about libraries and how we have "just in case" collections for patrons that might so happen to want to check out 30 books on how to disect every type of insect imagineable lol.

Week 5: Play week

The online image generator was fun the one i liked the most was flickr's because it was more user friendly. I tried to work with Letter James and found it confusing and not so much fun.






I made an account on librarything and found it an okay site but i honestly don't have that much time to read anymore so maybe this will get me back up on my reading. Its going to take some time to add to my library.

I like the idea of Rollyo but i think its too much work to just try and create your own search engine. I think its much easier to just use google. I dont search very often for general things online i usually have a specific site i go to.

Week 4: Merlin

I added Merlin to my feeds in my bloglines account and its interesting keeping up with library news. I found that the easiest thing to use for ooking up feeds and such is Feedster or Topix.net. I am mostly interested in news not blogs so i just searched by news feeds in feedster.

Week 4: RSS Feeds

I made myself a bloglines account and have started to add feeds. I found that this really is a great way to save time. Instead of having to go to different news sites you can just look at the headlines and pick which ones you want to read. One of the feeds, unshelved, a comic about the library, i found really makes me laugh because it is SO true. I also subscribed to fox news and the baltmore examiner. as well as a few others. Here is a link to my bloglines account.

Myspace

So we are supposed to write about anything that has to do with technology and everyone who knows me knows im a myspace addict, so thats what im writing about :)

I think that myspace has gotten a bad name from people who misuse it and dont take proper steps to protect themselvs from online stalkers and such. I love myspace becasue i have gotten in touch with old friends and its a way to keep in touch without racking up hundreds of dollars in phone bills. My myspace is www.myspace.com/abboliciouschevrolet but i made my profile private so i dont have random people trying too add me as their friend, also i made it private so that the world does not know about my private life. If i want you to know i'll add you as my friend :) So anyway i just want to let people know that i love myspace and it keeps me entertained and if you have a chance set up a profile and you will soon be addicted lol. Its a fun way to spend time especially if you are bored and like to snoop about whats going on in peoples lives.

Flickr Fun!!

I Finished setting up my flickr account and it was fun fooling with it although it is very time consuming lol. I created 2 albums and started making putting tags on my pics it takes a while but its easy to do.

I also startyed plaing around with the id badge maker it was fun :)

Flickr

Playing with Flickr was fun and has inspired me to make my own account. When i realized this pretty much an online photo album it made me think about the thousands of photos i have on my computer and how easy it would be to upload them and create albums.This is very exciting i cant wait to start! :) IF you want to look at some pics from the storm in fallston a while ago here is some...a tree landed on our house!!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbysmemories/

Week 2: Blogging

I have found that i really enjoy blogging. Its almost like an online diary. I have blogs posted on myspace but i found that i usually only do them when i am bored and they end up being very random. This blog is a lot more informative and dedicated solely to blogs unlike myspace.

Week 1: Thing 2

Well I can see that this is going to be an experience lol. The 7 1/2 habits were very interesting i liked the part about the toolbox and getting what you need....this is my excuse to get that digital camera ive been wanting :)

Week 1: 2.0

Well this looks like a great way to figure things out and learn about new technology. I thought that since i am young and hip, that i knew pretty much everything about technology that i needed to know. I was wrong lol. I had heard about all these things but only used them once or twice and some not at all. Also i got a late start because i am a huge procrastinator but here i go!!!

This is my second time doing this becasue i accidentaly messed my first one up by putting the wrong email adress in when i signed up...OOPS lol