Learning 2.0 evaluation

I have to say that before this I always thought that I was pretty technically savvy, and now I really know how much I don't really know. There is so much out there and I think I have taken a fairly good tour of the current realm of the social Internet, but I still have so much to do before I become really truly comfortable with it.

Some of the things here are fun, some are useful, and some I think will fall by the wayside as the years progress, but I think it's good to have a greater familiarity with it all. I think I won't really be sure what tools I'll use the most until some time passes, but I think I might really like Library thing, pod casts, and of course I love Overdrive. I can't wait until we have even more titles in that format.

It's been a great journey, but I can't help but feel that I've only just taken the very first step.

Parkour your way to the Library

Library 2.0

I think it's really important for libraries to stay abreast of future trends. I think we should keep the content that people want regardless of format. We might need to start thinking about Blu Rays soon. Platform video games would be a nice addition to our collection as well. We would certainly get a lot of teens in here then!

Overdrive

I love Overdrive! I just love being able to download audio books and listen to them in my car. They also make cleaning my house easier to bear. I think I'm one of the first users of this service. I always keep an Adobe book loaded on my pocket PC so that if I'm stuck waiting (for my car to be serviced or a doctor's apt.) I have a book at the ready. This was no chore at all!

NPR Podcast

I decided to subscribe to the NPR podcast, since I figuered it would be good to keep abreast of all the upcoming books. There is a whole world of podcasts that I'm looking forward to exploring in the future.

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510209

Guess the Google

I just tried out this learning game (I can call it that since I use Google to find images for people all of the time) and really liked this link.

grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google

It shows you a series of images that would show up on a typical image search and you have to guess the key word that would display those images. I think it really might help you to think in terms of the appropriate key words for searches.

Anyway, it's a lot of fun too.

Google Docs

I just tried to use Google docs and I think I really like this. I was familar with this service, but I hadn't really thought of all the advantages before. I can take a document with me anywhere, without having to email it to myself as long as I have Internet access. It won't fit something of novel length, however.

SPLS Wiki

Hey, we're an actual internet community now! See us here!

http://splslearning.pbwiki.com/

Wacky Wikis

This could be a very useful tool for libraries that we might want to explore for our website subject guides as well as for novel suggestions.

http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page

Wiki to create print books

I was exploring Technorati and discovered a blog that talked about Wikipedia creating print on demand services. This sounds particularly interesting for obscure travel destinations.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/19/wikitravel-to-publis.html


I'll be interested to see how this pans out and what it means for the future of libraries. I still think print on demand books are the wave of the future. (Aside from downloadable that is)

Bookmarking on the go

I explored Del.icio.us. I found it interesting, but I don't think I'll be using this much.

Ripple effect

I really liked a lot of these photo editing sites. I plan to have some fun with these in the future.

I particularly liked the ripple effect that can be achieved at the following web site:

http://www.fotline.ws/index.php

Face Book

I created a very very basic Face book entry at the following website:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1135686918

I find this somewhat interesting, but don't think I'll use it much.

Library Thing

I created an account on Library thing. What a great idea! I can't wait to have more time to really explore this site.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/skynetsingularity

RSS feed frenzy

I created an account for my RSS feeds at the following address . . .

http://www.bloglines.com/public/skynetsingularity

I really had no experience doing something like this before. I might just upgrade my mind after all.

Will we use Computers or will computers use us?

I keep thinking about how every decade computers grow exponentially in capacity and I know that some time in the near future the complexity of the computer will equal that of the human mind. If a computer can process information in the same manner as a human brain, will they eventually acquire human like thought processes? Will they surpass us? Or will we grow together becoming something neither human or computer but some melding of the two?

What if computers become more intelligent than humans? Will they continue to serve us? Or will they rewrite their own programming and become just as diverse as humanity- some hating us and some revering us.

Either way, I hope they remember us fondly.

Exploring Flickr

I'm going to have to make a trading card for my son at the following link.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

He's going to love this!

SPLS- Outside Mustang

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gem66/98267714/

Take a look at this beautiful picture outside of Mustang library.

I really like the play of light and shadow in this image.

My first post

It's official. This is my first post to my first blog!

Wendy