Beginning to End

This blogging journey has been fun, aggravating, time consuming but most of all innovative. Some of my favorite assignments include Finding Feeds, Image Generators and LibraryThing. I learned how much I "didn't" know existed on the web and while I wasn't interested in all the assignements, it's still worth knowing was is available.
I would be interested in participating in another discovery program if one were to be offered.

Face-to-Face Space

It can serve at a networking tool to connect you to people that you otherwise would have never been able to meet. It also can be a way to keep in touch with friends and family from home while your away at college.
It could be a useable tool for professor's to post imformation about a class assignment. It could serve the Library as a means of communication among staff and/or students.
The downside could be having to put so much personal information about yourself, which can be viewed by basically anyone that joins the site.

Podcasts

I did a search on library technology at Yahoo!Podcasts and found "The library channel" from Arizona State University. Finding free articles through the University was one of the topics discussed. Google Schloar was also discussed and its relevance to finding the most current articles. This is a very informative source for patrons to learn about the library and what resources are available.

YouTube

I found some nice video clips of covered bridges in Ohio. While I liked most of the clips, some of the commentary was a little annoying. I've added a link to a clip without commentary: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0qdft-D-JYY&mode=related&search=
This could be useful in a library setting perhaps as an instructional tool or even a help guide for patrons unfamiliar with the library.

Web 2.0 tools

Under the web 2.0 award winners I explored "Lulu", the first place winner for books. Since I am hoping to organize a book on covered bridges, a sight such as lulu will be very helpful in getting the materials organized and arranged. The FAQ option was very insightful in offering answers to questions you may not have thought to ask.

Web-based apps./Google docs and spreadsheets

After exploring Google's docs and spreadsheets I created a test document which seemed to be easy enough. Being able to create and convert files is very convieint and time effective.
I also explored Google calender which was very easy to create events.

Playing with wikis

I have added my blog as a "Favorite Blog" to the OULibrariesLearn wiki. It was fairly painless although having to wait for someone else to log off was a little irritating.