Thing 23 - Ha! Ha!

Well! I did it. I have found lots of interesting information along the way. Not I can say I can remember how to use them again but basically I know the "name" and have experience with Web. 2.0. In future, I will use them and explore them again to provide better service to our customers.

I enjoy searching for new things and discovering useful and interesting stuff, but it is a bit hard for a part time staff as me, too much learning within one week and we have not enough time It was a "pressure". Exercises should spread in longer span of time, e.g. one task per week.

Anyway, I have completed the program!!!

Thing 22

"eBooks - netLibrary" - this is the best tool I can do easily because I am familiar with it. I use it very often. I recommend it to most Intermediate student patron for their studies through our ACL digital Library, specially Cliff notes on Shakespeare studies. ACL collection is enormous and powerful (773 titles) and the search is not hard and rather user friendly.


It sounds great for Amazon wireless electronic book reader "kindle", but reading for relax, I still prefer to have a book on hand.

Thing 21

"Podcast" - I was keen to give this a go and once I spent nearly two hours on this. I was a bit disappointed. I searched "book review" and " library news" through "Podcast.net", "Podcastally.com" and "Yahoo Podcasts", the results were most came from America. End up I tried International Podcasts on "Podcast.net", I got a title called "Tofupod" and added the RSS feed to my Bloglines account. It was just for fun.

Thing 19

Played around with the Web 2.0 tool "upcoming event". It shows me what the upcoming events are for Auckland, or where I live. Very easy to use and very informative. I can add my own events publicly so that everyone can see or I can add events to remind me or my friends.

The useful features of the site is that I can see events based on my location. Help keep track of what is happening as I usually forget or don't know about these events.

I can see it being very useful for library to have an event page, displaying what is happening at your library. It could also be used to display new books arriving at the library.

Thing 20

It is very interesting, like watching tv. Lots of shows I can watch when I want to. Can also see videos made by or taken by other people, such as their pets (especially the video below), holidays. Good thing is there are no advertisements : ).

It will help the library by displaying documentary or children education related videos so that children can watch and be entertained or even help them with their homework.

"reminder" Thing 18

Ha!Ha! I did it. Created account with Zoho Writer, created a document "Reminder" and used Zoho's publish option to post the document to my Blog........ I did it!!!

One funny thing that... when I tried to use Zoho Writer's spell check, the message came out "spell check is not supported for English..." What language they are using?? I needed to change to "English NZ" from drop down Manuel and it worked.

Ten most admired qualities in a person are :-

1. sense of humor
   
2. sincerity
   
3. honesty
   
4. openness and receptiveness
   
5. positive attidude
   
6. compession
   
7. patience
   
8. good listening ability
   
9. confidence
   
10. politeness
    

Thing 17

Finally, I did it!!!
I tried several times to get the link to my blog to work properly, following the instructions but it did not work. I noticed that there was a link in the top right hand corner that said "switch to classic mode". When I clicked on this it changed to a different editing mode, the language I did not know. So I clicked back to the "Edit page" and tried again, it worked this time.
Through the "PB Wiki Tour", I got the clear idea of it. It does not look hard to do. I will try if I have time later.