THINGS are DONE!

Yeahs!!
* wikis rock ... especially the pbwiki project
* Web 2.0 awards were interesting
* Exploring the websites
* Actually sticking to writing in a blog
* Gave us all something to talk about

Boo!
* Youth Services people are way to busy to do something like this during the summer
* Should have more in-house, on-on-one, help classes
* We never explored Social Networking! This is such an important facet & foundation of Web 2.0 applications and I'm disappointed that it was ignored. Whether we approve of sites like MySpace, Facebook, & Twitter or not .... we should still be knowledgeable about them.

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PODCASTS

I mostly subscribe to podcasts from ITunes because it's super easy to have all my music and podcasts in one place.

But podcastalley was something else.
Trust me ... they have a podcasts on everything ... one called Dirty Kumquat Radio, cooking shows, 83 podcasts on yoga, Twilight podcasts (hooray), and even podcast of the X-rated variety!

This site is useful because you can download podcasts anywhere ... no need for a computer with ITunes.

NPR podcasts are spiffy! I always listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me while cooking ... and I do love Ira Glass ... it's the glasses.





AUDIOBOOKS

I gave up on our library audiobooks a while ago because they weren't compatible with my IPod.
But .... I did not know you could burn a downloaded audiobook to CD!! That's cool.

The library needs to have a class on audiobooks or really push the fact that we have them. I think many patrons have no clue!

YouTube Blast From the Past

On a whim I typed in"winterguard" in a youtube search.
I performed for years in winterguard and crossed my fingers that somebody had posted a video of one of my performances.

Who knew, that our secret ops lighted run at World Championships 2002 was up!!
We were a scandalous group. I was a sabre dancer.

Applause

By Jove! Web 2.0 awards rock!

I was disappointed that some of the neat stuff required subscriptions. I have this crazy notion that all Web 2.0 stuff should be free.
These sites would be amazing ... but they cost money!! Boo!
Mango Languages
Wufoo

Super interesting and Free ---- > the food section of the Web 2.0 awards!
Great for the food obsessed and food snobs.
I never knew these sites existed!

I especially loved the sites ImCooked and iFoods - instead of printing out boring recipes - you can watch videos!

This video of Christopher Walken cooking chicken is quite amusing!

Drumroll please .... my favorite Web 2.0 award winner is: LAST.FM
Type in an artist or band and you can stream music, download songs, view videos, read bios, tour dates, listen to similar artist, stalk, and comment ALL ON ONE PAGE -- this will definitely be a major time-sucker for me.

The man I adore: Andrew Bird

oh zoho

Zoho is useful ... indeed.

However is looks like a rip-off of Google Docs.

Why I love Google Docs:

It's simple and clean.

I have all my google-mania in one place - Docs, gmail, picasa.

Why I can't deal with Zoho:

I had to sign-up for another site.

Quoted from Amber: It's trying to be too much at once!!

However, being able to publish a document from Zoho to your blog is nifty. And I imagine it will get snazzier with time, but for now I am overwhelmed with signing up for so many sites and not having time to explore them.

So Adieu ..... I'll pass on Zoho and stick with what works for me.

sandbox yo!

Cilla and I had a blast playing the sandbox!

We learned how to post pictures of our favorite wines (and cheese) on our pbwiki!

http://pbclswiki.pbwiki.com/Favorite+Wines

This was the best "thing" yet!

Cheers!

Aloha!

Fascinating .....

wiki is from the Hawaiian word wiki wiki which means fast!

Wikis are a great source for collaboration ..... I'm realizing that I should have created one for my Battle of the Books team to share questions and info about the books we're reading. But getting something like that approved would involve too much hoop jumping.

Wikis are also scary .... students readily cite from wikipedia like it's the encylopedia. I even had students in my MLIS classes that cited from wikipedia. WHAT!?!!
At least it should inspire discussion about valid sources.

Such as the entry from Wikipedia below .... Does a backronym actually exist?!


"Wiki Wiki" (/wiːkiː wiːkiː/) is a reduplication of "wiki", a Hawaiian word for "fast". It has been suggested that "wiki" means "What I Know Is". However, this is a backronym.

backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing word or abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym. Backronyms may be invented with humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folk etymology. The word is a portmanteau term combining back-formation and acronym, coined in 1983[1] and documented from 1994:

The arrival of coeducation at St. Paul's in 1971 inspired the verb to scope (a foreclipping and conversion of "telescope") and the derived noun scoper, "one who appreciatively ogles the opposite sex." From this process has arisen an unofficial organization named SCOPERS, a reverse acronym, or bacronym, for "Students Concentrating On the Palatable Extremities of the Reciprocal Sex.
-Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore, 1994