Week 10 - Podcasts, videos and downloads

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
To me, my favorite area of learning has been blogging. I like this concept and I can see how I can learn blogging as a learning tool.
2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? I am more willing to take chances with the Internet. I am now going to continue working on my lifelong goals. I want to continue this experience and work on my skills and knowledge so that I can help others at the library. I want to be able to keep up with technology and be able to share these experiences with others at work.
3. Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? I think the concept of play to learn was very difficult to me. I didn't like working this into my "Work" schedule. This last post is done from home. I have done most of my blogging from "Work". The idea of play to learn is starting to sink in but I can see how others could take advantage of this concept. It was very difficult to work this into my schedule. But I am surprised that it's over for now. I really did enjoy this experience.
4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? I enjoyed this program and I was able to complete this lesson. Keep the format as it is but some lessons could have been shorter. Some lessons were easier than others. I was able to do everything except lesson 9.
5. If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you chose to participate? Absolutely, I hope that we will continue to keep up with the concept of the library 2.0 or 3.0 or 4.0 library.

Youtube! I have to say that this Podcast website is exciting and totally cool. I refused to go to Youtube and seeing videos from the past was really crazy. I looked up Ozzie and other searches and had a wonderful time. I looked at political satire and laughed my head off. I decided not to upload a video on Youtube. I can see how people are sucked into surfing this site. That's probably why I don't go there. (Because I would waste a lot of time doing so) But I know that this can be a great learning site. I can see how we use this as a learning tool to help others, teach skills for example (beading lesson which I saw on Youtube) and how to repair books, etc.

Week 9 - Web Applications

http://export.writer.zoho.com/ZExport.do

Here is the link that I created for this website. I tried and I had Erica help for a few minutes. She wasn't able to show me how to get to the correct area to upload this. I was in great hopes to be able to use ZOHO.com to get what I wrote. I tried to export what I did. As you can see, I wasn't able to do it. That link doesn't say what I wrote. I did leave the link that I created here listed above. If I did it right, I'm unaware! But I think that I am not correct on this lesson. I heard that Zoho, is a no-go! Direct quote from Amy. Oh well.

Week 8 - Wiki

Uses of Wiki:
Conference planning
Collaborative editing of documents
Meetings (posting agendas, discussion prior to meeting, etc.)
Project space
In place of structured courseware
Presentation medium
Web-based notebook to organize your thoughts

Wow! This weeks lesson is very COOL! I went to the website and I entered my information and added to Sheldon's Playhouse. I liked the idea how it notifies you that you made changes to that link. I can see how you can work on projects together and work as a team getting updates all the time. This will be a useful tool. I hope to use this in the near future.