Number 14 update on Technorati

Well, I looked at Technorati -- again. I can see the point of tagging, but so many inconsistencies. The lack of a thesaurus really causes many items not to get the same tag. I tried Learning2.0 on all 3 types of search, it was interesting to see the "by the hour" that a person had posted. And I searched other subjects. One thing was the ability to pull up blogs in other languages. That was easy to do.

Number 23 - Thoughts

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
I liked playing around with the image generators. I always wondered how those things were done.
2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
But for work, the google word processor was a find. I was thinking of articles that I've done at work and then at home and wished I had saved it to a disk or attached to email, so I can work on it. The google thing would really help in productivity.
3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
Some of the sites were not user friendly, but then again, they were free. Once I was able to work out the glitches, I felt rather empowered.
4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
Maybe an "L2 lite" with a few key exercises? I am doing these from home and using a dsl line. Sometimes the connection is very slow which is frustrating.
And last but not least…

5. If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you choose to participate
Yes -- you can read and read about all of the new technologies, but until you actually do it, you really have no idea of the accomplishments that these programs can do.

Number 22 - Audio / ebooks

World EBook Fair took some hunting to find free downloads. But once found, the site was very simple to use. And the quality was very good. I also tried sjlibrary's ebooks & audio books. Too bad we have no books that are compatible with iPods. I was looking at audio books and none worked with the iPod. Hopefully we will get some books that we can upload to iTunes. Would also like to see more audio books.

Number 21: Podcast experience

I have a lot of podcasts saved to my iTunes account. This was interesting to put one in my bloglines account. I added a podcast from Kaiser Permanente on tips on health. It's rather interesting and nice that I will be getting feeds, not emails. The email updates are too clunky, you have to log in usually, remember your password, etc. The feeds -- just easily come to the bloglines account.

Number 20: YouTube:March of the Librarians

Ok -- If you haven't seen this video it is just too cute for words. Did you see me and my friends Lorene and Eva in this? Besides fun videso, YouTube has a lot of videos on library instruction and library tours. This is a wild media. When this video first posted, within a few hours, I had 3 emails from friends from across the country tell me they saw me in the video. I uploaded March of the Librarians to my site, but it now has decided to disappear. hmmmm

Number 19: Library Thing

This is a lot of fun.

Number 18 -- Using the Google Word Processing

Visiting Las Vegas for the first time

Before visiting Las Vegas, you may want to visit the website for the main newspaper of Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Review Journal On this site you can find out major attractions, latest news, weather, hotels, etc. While most people go for the gambling, Las Vegas offers a lot more. For hiking and birding, there are great trails out at the Red Rock state park. In Henderson (a suburb of Las Vegas) there is a great Bird Preserve. The people that work there are friendly and very knowldegable. I like visiting the art museum and flower conservatory at the Bellagio, as well as watching the fountains show (after 3pm). The university there, UNLV, has a great library that uses a robotic storage area for books, an information commons, and rfid technology.

-- Note: I had difficulty uploading this, but the help from Google was perfect. Also I decided to see how a different font would look.