# 23 Is this the end???

Wow after spending lots of time procrastinating the 'end is nigh'. What a great idea aside from all the issues with trying to find time at work to complete this I think it has been a really good idea. (Currently my branch is getting painted, hence I am able to finish the course so fast). I have used google docs to write a presentation and even added some images from image generators! When I have time I will use Rollyo to create a list of all the links i have discovered during this course so that i can find them all again. I really enjoyed lots of the course and think it will promote lots of discussion and opens up many possibilities for tools we can utilise in the library. Alot of the tools I will be happy to show members and I feel alot more confident with the technologies of Web 2.0.

#22 Audio books

i love the idea of audiobooks on the net. I even found a Kurt Vonnegut book (my favourtie author) that I had never even heard of!!! I did not download it because I am at work. I wonder about how long it takes to download an item and also issue around copy writing...lots of issues to explore. But in general I think the idea of access to many readers online is a great idea and a very interesting one for the library

#21 Podcasts

I think that podcasts are agreat way of incorporating the activites that occur in the physical library into the online'branch' of the library. Author talks, events anything that is applicable for an online user would be great to add to a libraires websites. I think adding podcats to Bloglines is trickey as the podcast I wanted to add didn't have an RSS feed button and would not add by being cut and pasted. Anyway I still mnanaged to add one to my bloglines!

#20 YouTube (take two)

So i have managed to psot two videios from YouTube onto my blog and I am quite proud of myself. I found the site itself really easy to use ONCE I HAD WORKED OUT HOW TO USE THE EMBEDDED information. I tried cuttingand pasting the web address and various other things so all I have to say about YouTube is that I think it would be great to have obvious directions as to how to add/save content from YouTube on the site somewhere obvious. I have found that once I have worked out how to use alot of these sites I am able to use most of them as they work on the same principles.

#20 YouTube

#19 Web 2.0 Tools

O.K. So i had a go of a few different tools to see what I thought. Cool me old school but I would still rather listen to an album than Last FM which I found didn't really have the muscicians I like and when it did it didn't have the songs I wanted to her. Then I tried Cocktail builder, now this I thought was great idea where you typed in one or two ingredients and it offered you recipes with just those ingredients and some including added ingredirents - what a cool idea...I wonder if there is a similar tools for recipes, now that would be a great idea!

Google Docs

I have just done a presentation using Google docs, what a fantastic idea. I can really see it being useful for library members, kids, students anyone wanting to use library computers who does not have Power point etc on thier own computer or even if they do not have access to any computers other than public ones.