Thing #23 - Summary

Yay! The end is in sight. This has been a fun (but long) process. This has helped me become aware of sites out there that I was unaware of. I feel like I have a few more resources to help patrons with questions, as they arise.

I did find that a few links throughout the exercises that did not work anymore. I wish I had made note of them, but I just didn't think of it at the time. I know it would be a lot of work, but some of the exercises could be updated a tad ;).

I don't know if I would have chosen to participate in this if it wasn't a required course. I did enjoy some of the exercises, but some just felt tedious to me.

And now... done!

Thing #22 - Podcasts

I found a fun podcast called 'Library Geeks'. (http://www.podcastalley.com/redirect.php?pod_id=36582). I used podcastalley to look it up as the other two links did not want to work for me.

I love podcasts.. My husband and I are big NPR fans and we download podcasts regularly of the shows we miss. As mentioned earlier, I have an iPod, so I use iTunes to look for and download podcasts.

Thing #21 - Online Videos

I bring you 'Kittens... Inspired by Kittens'!



This video is just fun and cute. (^_^) I use YouTube a lot... I can catch up on a TV show I missed, find 'robot movies' for my 3 year old to watch (search 'Wall-E Vignette). I think people are attracted when sites have a video attached to them and KDL already utilizes YouTube for promo spots.

Thing #20 - Special Treat

This was a fun video. My husband designs web sites, so I was able to understand and recognize what they were talking about with the HTML/XML. Although that was not the main point of the video, I feel that it could be hard for some people to understand all that they showed. They go through things very fast and it was hard to keep up at some points. But fun nonetheless. I think it helps show how far we have really come with what we can do on the internet...

Thing #19 - Digital Music

I have used Pandora, and other music streaming sites, many times before. I enjoy Pandora because you may come across an artist or song that you did not know of before hand. I also have an iPod, so I have used iTunes and bought/downloaded music from there. It is very easy! If you only like one song on an artists album, you can download that single song for $.99 rather than buying the whole album.

I have not used a file sharing site for music before and have not had an interest in it yet...

Thing #18 - Social Networking

I think social networking is a vital way to get information out. I wonder how old the Learning 2.0 site is, as it talks about Myspace as the 'big thing', when nowadays, Facebook has pretty much taken over. KDL has it's own Facebook and Twitter page on which it shares loads of information. Sites like these are the way people communicate nowadays... a quick Facebook comment, a mention on Twitter... It's almost more popular that actually picking up the phone and calling someone.

I do have a facebook page currently, but it is set to private, so linking it here wouldn't amount to much ;)

Thing #17 - Wikis

I frequent wikipedia quite often. I love using it for reading up on movie plots, looking up a quick bit of info on a subject, etc. With the sites listed for the discovery exercise, I really enjoyed the 'Library Success' wiki. What a great way to share and discover new ideas with other libraries!

Within the library, I think a wiki for book reviews would be nice. People could share what they read and add more content when applicable. Also I think one for manga would be fun too :)