Summary of Learning 2.0

This experience has been a little different to what I was expecting. Having never written a blog before I didn't really know what it would be like, although I guess with so many people out there writing blogs about anything and everything it couldn't be too hard! I think I could have gotten a lot more out of this experience if I'd had my own computer at home as I could have spent longer on each task. As it was I felt I had to hurry through it because I was going away on holidays and wanted to have it finished before I left. Some of my more favoured exercises were Flickr, online image generators and YouTube. Not sure how or when I'll use all this new knowledge in the future (only time will tell) but at least I'll know what people are talking about when I hear them mention wikis or podcasts and know that I too have created a blog.

Downloadable audio books

This exercise I enjoyed much better than the last!!! Whilst listening to a story is not how I usually like to "read" a book, I can see they would be really good if you were going travelling somewhere or you had to do a lot of driving everyday. There was mostly classics on the site I was looking at, so some more current titles would definately be good (however they may not continue to be free!)

Podcasts

http://www.podcast.net/play/2343/1

The podcast I've include here is not one which interested me that much, I just found it difficult to find one at all. Quite a few of them had nothing there when you clicked on them and most of the rest were not that exciting when you listened to them anyway. I found it very frustrating trying to find one I would want to listen to, I don't think podcasts are for me!!! We could probaby use them in the library to broadcast author talks or patrons doing book reviews.

Web 2.0 definitions

http://www.webopedia.com/Web_2_0/

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ4lhsbF-kg&feature=related

Looking through the videos on YouTube is usually quite fun. You always find some good and some bad ones. I thought I'd keep to the theme of travel with this as well, so I've chosen one from my favourite destination, Penang. I love to sit on the beach and watch people parasailing, but I've never been able to do it myself. We could include videos on the library website of various activities we've held and show people all the fun that they missed out on! Again I would need a lot more time to fully explore all the stuff I would like to on YouTube.

Web 2.0 awards

I found a great site for those that like to travel called "Real Travel". It would be really helpful for most people when they are researching holiday destinations and when you're ready to book your holiday. You could search for hotels, flights and tourist attractions and you can read the experiences of people who have already been there. You could spend hours searching this site and perhaps even save yourself some money by comparing prices of various hotels/flights.
Have a look for yourself.
http://realtravel.com/

Online productivity

I didn't even know these existed on the web, so this was totally something new. I guess they're not as advanced in content as the ones you have to pay for but for someone who doesn't use them all the time, they are good (and free). You can also access them from anywhere so you can utilize them even when you are not at your usual computer. They are also pretty simple to use and it doesn't take you long to get the hang of them after playing around with them for a short time.