Week 9 (#23)

Well I am at the end of the tunnel at last. It has been hard going this last week, I have been busy with other things and as I had plenty of time to finish I seem to have slowed down.
I have enjoyed the journey even though it seems to have taken alot of time most days. There are web sites that I will most likely not be visiting again but now have the knowledge of their existance. I have had my eyes opened as to the absolute vastness of the Web. I knew there was a lot of stuff out there but am amazed by just how much, and we have only really skimmed the surface I am sure. I have learned alot and feel much more knowledgable about the web in general. Now when peolple talk about things like blogs, wikis, podcasts, you tube, flickr and social networking I will not feel like an idiot.
So thank you for providing the opputunity to do this program and would willingly participate in any in the future.

Week 9 (#22)

Net Libary: This format might be useful for some people but it is not for me. I thought it would be useful for students as there seems to be a good selection of Cliffs notes and classic titles.

I like the idea of books on line and the fact that you can add to your favourites and make notes about each one, which would be good for students or if you are doing research.

Very little if any contemporary fiction which is what I like to read and I like to actually have a book with pages that I can turn. I find it hard going to read much more than a page worth of writing from a computer screen at the best of times let alone a whole book. Also I would not be able to curl up with a computer or take it to bed to read, (I would hate to wake up and find the computer lying on my face!!!)

Week 9 (#21)

Podcasts: Well I found these quite confusing and rather boring. I looked at Podcast.net first and found this site dull and hard to find anything interesting. Most of the podcast i found were old and out of date. Podcastalley was the better site and I couldn't make head nor tail out of Yahoo podcast. On podcastalley I found the Onion Radio News, which seems to be popular site, which contains unusual and weird news items. I have added the Onion News to my bloglines as well.

Week 9 (#20) You tube

I found You Tube interesting to look at and I can see understand why people spend hours looking at it. I wanted something cute and relavant, and as christmas is nearly upon us, and I really like the muppets, I thought this was appropriate.

My blog from Zoho!!!

Well here I am in Zoho! This seems to be a very good site for people who do not have Word or if they use different computers in the course of their work and need to get to the same information. It saves the need to carry USB's or discs with the information on. But that would mean that every computer would have access to the internet.

I know that would be unusual these days, but hey, it could happen. Therefore you still may need to carry backup. Overall I think the Zoho site is really good.

P.S really like the emotions icons!!!

Week 8 (#'s 18 & 19)

I have published my blog for #18 from Zoho and I found this a really easy process.

Web 2.0 Awards has absolutely so much to explore that I didn't really know where to start. I had a brief look a few sites before I settled into Google Maps. I love to look at where I live and all over the place with the satalite version. It is really interesting to see the view from above. My only wish is that I could make the map enlarge to the whole page. I also looked at the Cocktail builder site, that gave you interesting random cocktail receipies. Had a quick look at a couple of others as well. All in all I could have spent a lot of time looking and may go back to this site later.

Week 7 (#'s 16 & 17)

Wiki's are a wonderful idea! I like the Princeton Libraries booklovers site and think it would be a great idea for us to have a site that the public could put there own reviews, and for us to be able to direct them when looking for some recommendations. I think it would be a good idea to have a place where community groups could add and update there own information. As now we have C.I.T.Y. to find the information but wouldn't it be great if the groups could update there own information and add snippets of information, eg fund raising events, galas, open days etc. These are two ideas that I think would work well for us.


I have just added my link to Favourite Blogs and it was a really easy thing to do.
I added two items, one to Favourite Books and one to Favourite Websites, which was looking pretty lonely with not one website added to it. For my favourite book, which is actually a series of books I even managed to add a link, which is something I wouldn't have been able to do a few weeks ago. So thank you for this program which is actually teaching me something!!!