Exercise #23 :-) :-)

I can hardly believe this learning journey has come to an end.

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
I loved learning how to set up a blog and using this tool. And as a school librarian the exercise on social bookmarking was wonderful. I will put Del.icio.us to use as soon as school starts. Gathering web sites now and getting a start on the school year is one of my summer goals.
Bloglines was a great discovery…..keeping up on all the things that interest in this new way will be lots of fun.

2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
Navigating New Technologies has shown me how much is out there for me to learn. Just when you think you are on top of the game something new comes along. I am encouraged that I was able to complete all of the exercises and learn lots for each one. I must remember to revisit all the exercises so I can remember all my passwords and how to do each new technology. If you don't use some of these technologies regularly you will need to relearn them. So much to learn in so little time.

3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
The unexpected outcome from this program is how many of the new technologies I want to use in the new school year. I just thought they would be fun to know about but using them will be very exciting.
Also, it was interesting how many passwords one would need in the course of 23 exercises.

4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
Feedback during the course, at times I wanted to know if I was on the right track.
And last but not least……where can I sign up for the next course. This was a wonderful learning experience and I know there is so much more out there to learn.

Thanks for opportunity!!!!!!

Excerise #22 eBook and eAudiobook

I love audiobooks but for sure the need to be the human-read not computer-generated. We are getting read to go on a road trip and the first thing we must do is pick out our audiobook or audiobooks. They are also good for those forced walks we all should be taking for our health.

Ebooks for pleasure reading would not be my first choice but for research the are great. Just the facts and a few pages are manageable but any more than that give me the hard copy.

The Project Gutenberg is wonderful I could spend days exploring and still feel there is more to discover.

Exercise #21 Podcast

I found lots of interesting "podcasts" that I will be able to use with the selections of books for my library. There were book talks on about everything one might be interested. I really enjoyed the SeriesInfoblog on the fuss over "The Higher Power of Lucky”. If you haven't read this book its a must! In my spare time I love to quilt so the blogs about quilting were very interesting. The RSS feed I added to my Bloglines account was for the NPR: Book Tour. When I am in the car I really enjoy listening to the latest book news from NPR. My Bloglines account will keep me up to date on all the latest from NPR: Book Tour through their podcast.

Thanks for making us go back to accounts we have already created. This is a great learning tool.

At a later date I do want to learn how to be a podcaster....has something to do with that lifelong learning!

Exercise #20 YouTube

I just love this video because it reminds me of my Jack Russell - Isabelle.
She doesn't surf yet but she loves the water.
I could spend hours and hours on this site but then I wouldn't get the rest of my exercises done.
This year my video production class will be creating something for YouTube. It will be as good if not better than what is on the sites I checked out.

The quality of the video needs to improve on most of the videos before some views will take a liking to YouTube.

Exercise #19 Web 2.0 awards winners

You were right in saying there was a lot to explore in this lesson. You could spend lots and lots of time on each site. Using the chart feature putting the winners in categories on http://www.seomoz.org made looking around much easier then the other options on the page. I was happy to see some of the ones we have used already show up as winners. The following two winners in the category for books had some great features http://www.lulu.com/ and http://www.biblio.com/ but for my library Librarything had more application they will be a help in my job.

Exercise #18 ZoHo

What fun! I can think of a 1000 ways to use this tool.
And it is so so very easy!

Great production tools to use for so many things.

Books and Bagels Summer Edition

Thursday June 14

9:00 am @ Destin Middle School

Exercise #17 Sandbox

I loved playing around in the Sandbox lesson.

The discovery resources in this lesson are wonderful. I see all our lessons building in each other what a treat! The Wiki with the To Do List was wonderful. I can almost say school this year can almost not start soon enough and use the free version of PBWiki. This will be a good starting place for me and the students.