Thursday, March 8, 2007

Week 9- #23

Summary
Wooooohooooo, I am done!!

Okay, so my favorite exercises were probably the youtube exercise (because I was very familiar with this site already), and all the easy ones (the first ones, the image creator, etc.). I enjoyed doing this program and I am glad this was offered to us. What I didn't like was all the different things we had to signed up for. Most of the exercises were pretty simple but there were a few that were very confusing and annoying such as the bloglines, technorati, and del.icio.us . I would definitely participate in a another program (especially if more prizes are being offered!).

:-)

Week 9- #22

ebooks and audiobooks

I had previously explored some of the Sjlibrary's ebooks. From my experience, I found that they have mostly Non-Fiction and mostly self-help, careers, and other subjects like that. Like other people have already stated, I would prefer to read a "real" book than to sit in front of the computer for hours. It can be helpful to read an ebook when you're doing research for a school assignment so you can highlight and copy information onto a computer document. Overall, I liked this exercise.

Week 9- #21

Podcasts

I went to podcast.net and searched under comedy and browsed around a bit. I then typed in George Lopez as a keyword and found a podcast that I wanted to play. It actually didn't play from the computer at work. Here's the link though and I will try to play it later.

I have actually done a podcast before. I helped my brother make one for school and it was very cool.

I liked this exercise and will probably use it later to find more stuff.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Week 9- #20

YouTube

This was, by far, one of the easiest exercises. I am very familiar with youtube and I have used it quite a few times. You can find anything on there. Here's a video I have seen probably a thousand times because I can't get enough of it! lol "Scrubs" is my mostest favorite show and this is where this clip comes from.





I LOVE IT!

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Week 8-#19

Library Thing

I took the "tour" on Library Thing and I signed-up for it. All they ask you for is a username and password; that's it! Then you add your books to your "bookshelf" and you can write a review or comments or whatever the heck you want on there. You can join groups and talk about the books. I haven't added any books yet but I will add a few later and see how it goes.

Ok, so I added some books and I tried creating a "widget" but for some reason, it does appear on my blog. Here's a
link to the page I created...hope it works.


:-)

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Week 8- #18

Online Productivity Tools

Woohoo! I'm almost done! So close, how excinting! :-)

K, for this exercise I signed-up for the Zoho Writer thing. It seems that there are a lot of useful things you can do on there. I tried creating a document and the page was loading FOREVER and so I never actually got to create it. Actually, I checked right now and I do have a document there that I was able to upload. What you can do, is create a document (letter, paper, etc.) on Zoho Writer and you can then publish it to your blog or even webpage. It's pretty cool. They even have a Spreadsheet thing you can use. There's also this sort of "Power Point" thing you can use to create slideshow presentations, all from the same website! I liked this exercise!

:-)

Week 7- #17

SJ Learning 2.0 Sandbox wiki

Ok, so I signed-up for the SJ Learning 2.0 Sandbox wiki. I added my blog. I looked around and will be adding my 2 cents on a couple other "Favorites" pages.

Peace

Week 7- #16

Wikis

This exercise was about "wikis." The very popular site wikipedia is an example of a wiki. Many students try to use wikipedia as a resource when doing research on assignments. Using this site as a source is not accepted by most teachers/ professors because this site can have very inacurate information since mostly anyone can edit/ add information to the site. I only recently found out that you can do this. Honestly, I didn't know the truth about wikipedia since I was not familiar with wikis.

I liked this exercise.

Peace

Week 6- #15

Perspectives on Web 2.0

This exercise asked us to read a few of the perspectives on the Libraries and how they are changing and will continue to change in the future. Most of these, I found, are more useful for Librarians to read. I am not a librarian. What I got from reading these perspectives was that, just as anything else is required to adapt to technological changes, so are the libraries. Libraries need to keep up with the demand for more updated ways of learning. People will soon demand things such as podcasts, e-books, and various other items. I read:

Away from the “icebergs”,
Into a new world of librarianship, and To a temporary place in time....

life without music...

is just not worth living...

hehe a little cheezy but i just wanted to test this blog using flickr.

yeah

peace

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Week 6- #13

Tagging and discover del.icio.us

still working on it...

K, well call me old-fashioned but I like my current way or organizing my bookmarks. I use the Yahoo Bookmark tool. If I'm away from my computer then I can just go to MyYahoo and I can easily access whatever bookmarks I have saved. Maybe it's because I'm used to doing things a certain way or whatever it is; I like this way and I will keeping doing it this way.

Sooo, I don't like the del.icio.us thing either. Sorry.