Week 9: #23: Summarizing

Wow!!!! I'm done!!!! There were a few times there where I wasn't sure I would make it this far! I really will need to go back through most of the 23 Things again and spend more time with the "things" I think will be most useful for me. As a high school media specialist and a public librarian, I need to be on top of these different technologies and now I feel like I can at least speak intelligently about them. I know that there will be ways that I can use them but its a lot to digest even over a 9 week period. I had no idea how much information I would accumulate and much of it is just whirling around in my brain. I did learn a lot, I will be able to use a lot in my job and for the parts that I may not use, at least I understand what they are and how they are used to a certain extent. My favorite thing of all is Library Thing because I could see immediately how I could use that. Many of the other things were fun and I'm glad to know of their existence but I may never use them again. It has been quite an experience but one that I am glad I participated in and did not give up.

Week 9: #22: Audiobooks

I created an account and downloaded the software for Overdrive and then was able to download a YA novel Be More Chill by Vizzini. Unfortunately, it could not be burned to a cd so now its just sitting on my computer. Many of the titles that I would have liked were not available, I had to put a hold on them and many of them could not be burned to a cd. I am assuming that I would be able to put them on an MP3 player but I don't have one (yet ???!!!) but once I do I can see where I would use this quite a bit.

Week 9: #21 Podcasting

Having looked at the 3 suggested podcasts sites I preferred Yahoo!Podcasts. I was unable to use the PodcastAlley without doing a download aggregate which I didn't want to do and I didn't find Podcast.net as user friendly. It also seemed like the podcasts which were not very up to date. Everything I was looking at seemed to date back to 2006. Yahoo Podcast seemed to be more user friendly.

I subscribed to Merlin since it seemed to have so much that I would be able to use and great examples of how libraries are using podcasts. I listened and then watched the program with Elizabeth Berg- what a great way to share authors with the public. I can see spending a lot of time on Merlin when I am finished with 23 things.

Week 9: #20 YouTube

I can see where lots of time could be spent looking on this site. I did take the time to find the video on the Medieval helpdesk which had been e-mailed to me before and it really is quite funny! I didn't find anything else on books or libraries that I would be able to use but there are tons of funny things on YouTube- I could see where people could get addicted to it. I was able to embed a video into this blog-it was easy. I just couldn't find anything that I wanted to stay on the blog so I deleted it.