Thing #23: The End

My Reflections…

Well, I learned a lot from this program – way more than I thought I would.  It wasn’t that I was scared to play with the 2.0 stuff, it was more that I either didn’t know it was out there, or just didn’t have the time to mess around.  At least this learning program gave me an excuse to play.

There were a couple of tools that seemed to be pretty useful, and that I’ll probably continue to use in the future:

• Zoho
• Bloglines
• WordPress
• YouTube
• Flickr

If I were to change anything about Learning2.0, I would allow more “at work” time to play with this stuff.  A half hour per week isn’t enough time to do most of this stuff, especially if we have to blog about it too.  I would also try to get the managers involved in promoting it among the staff.  I know that my boss didn’t with us, but I don’t know if that was the case with her main branch.

Either way, this was fun – I’d do it again if we offered something similar in the future.

Thing #22: Audio Books

*sigh* I can’t finish this one because I’m not at the library, and won’t be until Tuesday – AFTER the deadline for the prize stuff.  I’m pretty sure that NetLibrary has some pretty awesome stuff though.  It has to, if our library uses it, right?

Thing #21: Podcasts

For this assignment I looked at a couple of different podcast search engines.  Yahoo! came up with a lot of search results, but many of the links were broken, or not in any kind of order.  It didn’t seem very user-friendly, so I looked at Podcast Alley instead.  Podcast Alley seemed a lot easier to use, although it took a little while for some of the podcasts to load…

I don’t see myself using podcasts very often, but I have had teachers that used them to help us figure out the assigned reading and as a supplement to their regular lectures.  They worked OK, but they seemed excessive, especially since we saw the teacher 3 times a week anyway.

Either way, I found the FlyLady on Podcast Alley, so I’ll probably subscribe to it.

Thing #20: YouTube

Microsoft Windows (code named CEMENT)

My hunny found this video on YouTube and we both laughed hysterically about it. Sorry if you’re a Microsoft fan… (2:05 minutes long)

Either way, I’m supposed to comment on YouTube’s possible uses inside the library.  YouTube might be a good way for libraries to get to know one another, for customers to get an orientation of library services, how-to videos (how to check out, use a database, etc), and library staff training.  The only thing is that we’d have to think to search YouTube for these kinds of videos, and I somehow doubt the general public would do that.