Learn & Play at a close...

To summarize my thoughts on Learn and Play- this was fantastic for this organization to go through and I am proud to have been a participant! I re-freshed on some things I already knew well- youtube, flicker, and learned some things that were completely new to me- calc, MOLDI, LibraryThing.

Also, Twitter is so fun, I am not great about posting what I'm doing, so need to improve on that, but think this has been a favorite of a lot of staff!

All in all, this program was fun, it was educational and I enjoyed taking part, thanks!

Web 2.0 Tools

Web 2.0 Tools- which one is my favorite? Well, I have to go with You Tube, I love, love, love this! I know it is easy to use, easy to access, free (best of all) and something I find entertaining.

MOLDI

Again- another new term I have never heard of! I have not been to MOLDI or downloaded an audio book before. I am a BIG fan of books on tape so this is great. I first had to creeate my account and add to my favorites then searched and found things I was looking for and although I didn't actually download an audio book I know now the process if I ever decide to do this in the future.

Podcasts

I have only searched for and viewed podcasts from itunes, but after doing a Google search see podcastalley.com a great site for searching podcasts, there are ways to narrow down your search and view by categories, sub-categories, this is great, this is going in my bookmark for sure!

I love You Tube!

I have loved using You Tube for over a year now when it was first introduced to me, there is literally everything on there, anything you want to find you can find it here. I look up old television shows from when I was a kid, interviews, concert footage, and it is so great. I went on and did a search of Columbus Metropolitan Library and was surprised to find so many hits!

Rollyo

This won #1 search engine in the Web 2.0 awards, something I have never heard of, but really like! I am really liking the layout and design and the way items are in categories like news, celebrities, etc. I get stuck in my old ways, and this is a new site and search engine, I bookmarked it and can't wait to begin using it!

Word Processing Tools on the Internet

This "thing" was new for me, I didn't understand at first what was meant by this, I think of word processing tools and think of Excel or Word. I did a Google search and found the website biglist ofproductivitytools.com and also a website that talks about versions of Excel, Word that are online and best of all- free!

I liked calc, an Excel knock-off that is an openoffice.org software. It looks so much like Excel and is something new I look forward to trying soon!