Thing # 21 Wrapping Up

My favorite thing through all of this was refreshing my memory about what is out there and taking another look at things for a second time to see what has been changed and improved. What I like least about Web 2.0 is the sign up requirements for everything, there is not time (or inclination from me) to have to check all of these things to monitor postings and blogs, and wikis, and tweets, and my wall, and tags. I already think that OCL takes great advantage of the technologies out there to make sure we are findable and present for anyone who is looking but especially the teen population who uses most of these applications daily. My Husband and I are on Facebook, other than that our daughter is just now being allowed to use (with monitoring) things like MySpace, FaceBook, and Twitter to connect with her friends....oddly enough my son (10 years old) has no interest in anything other than Club Penguin or Hot Wheels Racing so we leave it at that.

In predicting for Web 3.0, I am looking forward to the use of more complex searching strings to eliminate the need for multiple searched. Not at all sure how I feel about a browser that 'learns' from my prior searches enough that I could ask it What movie should I go see....that might be creepy....and if it starts calling me by name like in 2001 a Space Odessey, well, I may unplug and go back to snail mail and a typewriter for fear of being taken over by the machines!!!

It has been fun...thanks for the ride! Toni Smirniw @ TU

Thing# 20 Listen Nj

I had done this for the branch managers challenge this year as well so will expand on that posting if that is OK....For the Listen NJ challenge I have had an account for a long time, I have frequently used it for books throughout my 2 masters programs especially classics and it saved me a lot of cash and time in putting things on hold and waiting for them to come in! For the challenge I downloaded Janet Evanovich's book Fearless Fourteen to my daughter Lexi's Ipod. She had listened to parts of it in my car on CD and wanted to listen to the whole story...so this was a great opportunity for her to learn how to do it too. I love these book by Evanovich and have been to the burg! This is something I recommend to our hearing impaired patrons and they are grateful to have things available from home when they are waiting for materials from the library.

Thing # 19 Podcasts

There are two of my Walden University Professors that used podcasts for the lectures online and it really made learning the information much easier for me because I retain and learn much easier from listening than from reading boring, dry, black and white text. Having a computer with a good fast system, makes the experience either good or bad (good in my case). I wish more lectures had been done that way, it really simulated being in a classroom with a person in front of you...you can't interact but you see body language and can understand voice inflection more by 'seeing' the person in 'real life'

Thing #18 Delicious

Whenever I am in TR on a Sunday I still use their delicious link to find things and answer questions. It is very handy and can be placed right there on the links of the web browser for one click access. It is not what I think of first when doing reference but there are times I look down and see it and think to use it....you can store a ton of information there instead of in your favorites.

Thing #17 Tagging

From LibraryThing there was an unusual amount of color words used that I found interesting, not my first thought when loking at a book cover but makes sense for those people who are visual and remember the colors used on a cover. Adding tags can get out of hand, I would try to limit tags to the first things that pop into my head when I look at something. No one has tagged any photos, we posted none. I added tags to this blog..boring though they may be! Using the site you gave to create a cloud was more fun and interesting and is appealing visually, it is like an art form in itself!

Thing # 16 Wiki 2

I went to the site...on the sandbox I added my favorite series, Herald Mage by Mercedes Lackey...and to dinner...better late than never some double chocholate pecan pie! It was very easy to add and edit the information there. It is nice they require the login to be sure only people from a designated group have access.

Thing #15 Wiki 1

Ha...I have a guess as to some of the 'changers' of information : )
This application would have been very useful during my graduate school for group projects instead of us emailing the documents back and forth trying to keep up with what was the most current and having to merge copies by hand from one person to the next. I would like there to be a facilitator...I like final say and being in charge, other than that I can see that this would be beneficial, but again for us in a branch this may be addressed by the share point software.