Thing 23 : Week 9 : SUMMARIZE

Well, that was indeed a wonderful & interesting journey through the Learning 2.0 program, of course with few ups & downs initially. To be honest I got frustrated in the beginning with this programme as I couldn't cope up with my library work & new PAL duties & was sick for a while. I had almost decided on not completing it until one fine day while I was going through my emails I read about people still registering & it was already first week of Nov, it was then I thought why can't I finish it cuase I was already up to "Flicker". Here I'm completed the "23 Things" Learning.

I did enjoy working on Flicker, as I was quite familiar with that. "Image Generators" were a cool stuff. "Zoho writer" was amazing to work on, especially where we could publish the document from Zoho writer to our blogs. I was thrilled to see the Zoho document on my blog. This wonderful programme helped us to learn new stuffs like bloglines, Tagging, RSS, Podcast. Working on Net library & ebooks were very helpful for our work.
I conclude my summary by thanking ACL Learning 2.0 programme team, they've done a great job & helped us to keep up with the advanced technology & computers.
So three cheers to the team!!

Thing 22 week 9 : NET LIBRARY - EBOOKS

This is a part of our library job, however I didn't have a Net library a/c, but that was ok, I've got used to signing up for new a/cs & it is no more a stress.
I browsed through Net library web page it is quite interesting, a wide range of topics are covered. Right from kids to old age people. Like I came across an ebook for kids to learn numbers which was so basic & the other useful ebooks like beginner's guides to different subjects.
I looked through ebook of Arther Miller's "The Crucible" , what is really good about this source is it not only allows you to read through the pages of the book but also you get other information like "Contents" which gives the list of the contents of the book & we can choose what we want to read instead of turning the pages. But I still get feedback from the customers as they still prefer to have a book on hand rather than looking on to the computer screen, I personally also of the same opinion.

Thing 21 Week 9 : PODCASTS

Podcast is a digital media file distributed over the internet feeds for playback on portable media players or PCs.
That was quite interesting going through different PODCASTS. I tried the library ones, like "Book Review" "Book Clubs of library", that was cool. But I couldn't get to listen to any as the computer I was using was not compatible to play those Podcasts , looking forward to listen to them sometime later. Although I feel these are somewhat similar to You Tube videos, but a Podcast is not necessarily be a video, but some Podcast have presentation or speech which we could listen to, some have video presentation. I feel great after learning something new & makes me feel proud when I show my blog to my family. All the credit goes to "ACL 2.0 team".

Thing 20 : Week 9 : YOU TUBE

You Tube is very popular not only amongst younger generation but also older people. It is a fantastic media to watch music videos of any kind and nationality. We @ home watch a lot of Indian music videos, especially old movie videos of my local dialect!! It is a great way of spending some free time watching these & keep in touch with advanced technology. I watched "Conan the Librarian" video, if Conan as a Giant was replaced by a smart & humble librarian, I'm sure that kind of video clips on our website showing either different sections of the library or a model using the self-checks ( our new self-checks are a challenge for some of our customers). I looked through quite a few videos but was not happy having them on my blog! So here's a library video on You Tube.

Thing 19 Week 8 : WEB 2.0 AWARDS

From the short list of awards I picked "Newsvine" from the Social News category. This is like browsing the online newspapers which I do regularly. It covers updated news from National, International & World . A wide range of topics like Sports, Entertainment, Politics, Science etc., are covered.
Newsvine which is continuously updated by people is the instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.
I was quite curious to look into their "Science" section. There I was with more surprises by seeing the topics covered, these topics will be published & seeded by top seeders. Over here I read an article which said "Migraine brains are different". That was interesting. And ofcourse the "Helath" section was informative too. Yes I did have a good time browing through these pages.

Thing 18 Week : ZOHO WRITER

ZOHO WRITER

I signed in for Zoho writer & spent some time looking through its features.
Hey this is a wonderful tool. It is a combination of several things like

word processor

Excel Spreadsheet

all the features of Microsoft Word & much more . As you can see I've tried using the word features I did try to insert few columns of excel spreadsheet & published it from the Zoho writer, but when I viewed by blog those boxes of rows were just looking like thick lines. So I deleted them by editing. But publishing the Zoho document straight onto my blog was awesome. I was thrilled! I'm also imoporting an image.

Thing 17 Week 7 : SANDBOX WIKI

Oh that was a simple task but in the beginning I kept worrying what I should be doing. In the discovery exercise it says add an entry to "Sandbox wiki" when I got there I tried to edit the page to include my blog & nothing happened, tried couple of different things but all in wane I couldn't add my blog to the favourite. Then I asked my colleague & in was so simple. I wish they had better instructions in the discovery excercise so that we can finish our tasks quickly without disturbing others.
Anyway I've added my blog to the favourite blog list.