#23 The End!!!
Yes, have finished, hurray. Reflection time. Firstly, relief to have it done. It was very time consuming and at times frustrating. However, for me it was very worthwhile as it made me look at things that I would have said I had no interest in. Doing this certainly broadened my awareness and outlook on things electronic. It broadened my knowledge in this area considerably.

My favourite 'thing' was YouTube, I also really liked that I was able to set up my blog (though it is a sad blog compared to many) and was able to manage my blog and move around in it, add lots of things and change things and actually be able to remember how to do it all.

I hope in the future I will revist many of the 'things' and with my colleague and utilisze some of them in our library.

#22 Audiobooks
Great site, enjoyed this 'thing' and listened to a book from my childhood. It was also interesting the titles of the 100 most popular books. I will definately be remembering this site.
Visited the site below as recommended on 'Birds and things' blog and it is a really good site.

http://www.ebooks.com/

# 21 Podcasts
Disappointing - took me a while to get around and work them out, I found Podcast.net the best, and I had been looking forward to this 'thing'. I think I will revisit this when I have more time. Did find some interesting podcast and it also reaquainted me with RSS feeds. I can see podcasts may have a place in libraries, some forward thinking librarian will devise a way for them to be usedful! Now I am ready to move on.

# 20 You Tube
I was looking forward to doing this "thing", as I had wanted to look at you tube for some time and probably would not have found time. I found it fairly easy to navigate around and I have put a vidoe of the recent Australian netball teams World Cup win on my blog. Yes I am a bit of a netball fanatic. (trying to keep it under control though).

# 19 Discovering web 2.0 tools
I enjoyed this session and looked at 3 different sites. Firstly I looked at Biblio.com a book search and market site for out of print and rare books. I thought it would be useful for finding that special book you have lost and would like to find again. Unfortunatley, I couldn't remember enough detail on some of the books I wanted to see if were still around, good success with others. The second site I visited was Yelp, but this was american and while I had a quick look around, didn't have a lot of relevence to me. Thirdly, I looked at One Sentence, I loved this site, is of little use but it made me laugh and if you wanted to, it could probably make you cry. It has links to more on each sentence. I have included the address here as I think many would enjoy it and may find unexpected uses for it.
http://www.onesentence.org/

#18 Web-based Apps

Did some docs in Zoho writer and tried lots of things, realize I need to spend more time with it. I also thought I was getting on well understanding this blog but met with frustration this afternoon. I will now put a calming picture with this blog.

#18 Web-bases Apps

I was not as successful with Zoho Writer as I anticipated and think I will go back later and play some more. However in one of the docs I produced I had pics of where and what I would like to do for my Summer holidays, so I am going to put them on anyhow!

# 17 PBWiki
Okay, have done that, I am eager to get to the end!!!!

# 16 Wiki's
I liked this "thing" as it answered questions I had about Wikis clearly and unambiguously. Wikis are one of the 'things' that I had more experience with than most of the other 'things', so was able to understand better - I think.

I think there may be an application for a Wiki in our library and so I will be exploring how to set up a wiki in the (near?) future.

#15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0
Much food for thought. Probably liked best 'a temporary place in time' was easy to understand the concepts, 'away from icebergs' made me reflect that we must be sure not to leave our very traditional patrons behind as we embrace 2.0 and changes that seem inevitable. Nothing will replace curling up on the couch by the fire with a good book for me.

#14 Technorati

I found this one of the easier exercises and could have spent much time just looking and exploring - though that is true of every exercise so far. It was also good as I had to instal some software to be able to play the Technorati tour, and normally I am a bit hesitant and not confident to do this but I just went with it and was happy with the result. (I hope). The technorati home page I saw looked different from the one in the Technorati tour but was soon able to go wherever I wanted. Helen Blowers blog, Library bytes, was interesting and I liked the graph of how many blogs have mentioned Library 2.0 lately. It was also interesting to see how may Libraries are doing Learning 2.0 all over the place. I particularly liked the blogs, pictures, tags and videos that come with each search. I did a couple of other searches and was happy with the results.

#13 Del.icio.us

An interesting and easy to understand exercise, I have begun an account as I do use several different computers eg. at home, work, at other organisations etc., so I am hoping it will be useful.

# 12 Rollyo

I must confess I was abit at sea with this and then it clicked and I really enjoyed it, until I tried to link to my search roll and I don't think I have done it properly and Idid the optional exercise and my rollyo thing went to the bottom of my blog first but I re-did it and now have it where I want it!


http://rollyo.com/index.html

# 11 Library Thing

Time is the thing, I could have spent much longer at Library Thing. Although as a cataloguer, I am glad I have access to Libraries Australia!! My collection at home is very random, and as such it was challenging to find hits for them. This site is very user friendly and I look forward to visiting it again.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bobettea

#10 Image Generators

I enjoyed this activity and tried several different things, the one I have chosen to post is probably not my best effort, and as I used this more I discovered how to edit the posters. However I had already saved this one so decided to use it.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

#9 Finding Feeds

I found this exercise okay, the challenge for me was remembering where I had put everything and finding it again. This I did do successfully! Next I am going to put an RSS feed for Ebsco ANZ Reference Centre on my bloglines account, as we do use these data bases in our library.

#8 RSS and newsreader

I found this quite difficult to start with - very very frustrating!!! However once the initial problem was solved it was good fun and I look forward to utilising this in the future.

#7 Technology
Huge advances in technology have occurred in our lifetimes especially in computers and related technology. I remember doing computers in Maths in year 10 or form 4 as it was then. We had to make cards that ran what ever you wished to do on the computer which was so big that it took up whole walls. I guess the invention of the microchip was a major leap forward. To day I find email very convenient for communication especially as Secretary of organisations, I can email reports, agendas, minutes etc. and of course for day to day communication. The word processing programs have changed how we do things, and I now think better when sitting at a key board than I do when writing long hand. The other thing I really like is my USB memory stick.

#6 flickr - More flickr Fun!!!!!!!!

Yes, well I have now experienced 'more flickr fun'. I accessed 'Bighugelabs' through FD Toys and created a badge. It is a fun badge my husband had better find amusing. I have now had enough of Learning 2.0 for today!

Flickr-3

Yes! I have posted this picture at last!!!

#5flickr -2

This is my dog Dexter, and on my third attempt to post a picture I have succeeded. I will attempt to find out why my other pictures did not work. Dexter is 11 years old and began life as an RSPCA puppy. We have had him since he was about 3 months old, and while clearly not a farm dog, did his best impersonation of one while we were dairying.

#5 flickr

It had taken me a long time to complete Week 3 - flickr. I spent much time looking around the site.

I am now hoping to upload a picture of the Great Dividing Range taken a few kilometres outside Dargo. The bush was quite spectacular as it recovered from the bushfires of 2007. We were able to see many more rock formations than normal as all the undergrowth had been burnt. Unfortunately many signs had also been burnt which made it more difficult to find some of the sites we wanted to check out.

My second visit

This is my second visit to my blog! As I have visited other participants blogs I am very impressed with what you have created. I am just having a play around before I proceed on. Green is my favourite colour.

Begining

What a morning! I am pleased to say I (think) have now completed Week 2. I have learnt sooooooo much this morning creating my blog. Being a joint use library - public and school - caused problems hopefully unique to our joint use status. Many issues arose mostly concerning privacy, how much is appropriate, that their is harvesting and what harvesting on the internet is! I learnt that it is very difficult to delete a blog and I was able to revisit some areas of email that I hadn't used for some time.

Thanks to our IT staff here for their help.

I am looking forward to Week 3.

Robyna