Week 9 Thing 20, 21, 22, 23.

#20 I started viewing YouTube and the list of videos being watched right now. It was fun looking at the old Captain Crunch commercials and the Tootsie Roll commercial.
I enjoyed watching the Library Dominoes video. I was unable to view the 60s music
videos because you can't view because of use violations.

#21 It is interesting to know that podcast are done automatically through RSS and
used over the internet. I listened to a going live broadcast from Podcast Aley.com, the show is Good Beer Show #127 "Beer Mecca" and laughed at the beer song. I
enjoyed listening to The Denver Public Library stories for kids -"Mary had a
little lamb."

I wanted to record a podcast but, I didn't have a microphone and a MP3 player.
Almost forgot - The information on Odeo Studio is great. I didn't have a microphone to record on the record new audio.

#22 I did the tour for Overdrive Digital Media for downloading of overdrive audiobooks and the tour for Introduction to Netlibrary.

Project Gutenberg - I read the top 100 E-books from yesterday. I looked at titles
available on downloable audio books. Some of the e-books for free had a format
to use MP3 for audio books.

#23 My favorite discovery exercises are: using the on-line generator in thing 10,11.
Making my own Ben & Jerry ice cream and the chalkboard message. Podcast - listening
to a live broadcast of the beer song (thing #21). Thing #20 Youtube - watching old
tv commercials, Captain Crunch, etc. I enjoyed the Library Thing cataloging my
favorite books.
I loved exploring the Web 2.0 Awards List.
Yep Baltimore is interesting, especially looking at Baltimore's entertainment and
restaurants listings.

I liked the downloadable audio books section. It is good to know the different
sites to use to download audio e-books. Overdrive, Netlibrary and Project Gutenburg
are good reference tools to use.

My lifelong learning goals are to keep abreast of what is new in technology for
the future of libraries. The 23 Things informed me of what other library systems are
doing to keep up with technology and blogging is new to BCPL and other library systems.

If you are going to offer the 23 Things in the future, please do not offer
in the summer months. Staff are on vacations, job assignments and training are
being done and last but not least the Summer Reading Programming is very busy time
for staff.

If you offer another discovery program (not in the summer)I would be interested
in participating.

The program is a good learning tool. It is time consuming and should be
done in the winter months when the library is not as busy. Each person learns at
a different pace, I needed more time than a half an hour or one hour. I spent
maybe two hours on each group of things section depending on the reading, tours,
exercises, etc. Some of the tour sites didnot work at the time I used them and
the blogger was down a couple of times. Overall - I enjoyed the 23 things program.
It is a long and involved program.

Week 8 Thing 18-19

#18 I created an account and did an online word processing document.
The document is titled Zoho writer testing document. I created a browneyes wiki
document. I viewed a few of the Zoho Writer templates.

It's amazing you can create a document (a public document) and it has all the
features of a microsoft document and you can save it and move it any place you
want to place too.

#19 I explored Seomoz games Arcaplay. The game I played was Luck Balls. I tried to add this game to my blog, it would not add it.

I explored the Web 2.0 awards list. I liked the Yelp website. I was able to look at
the Yelp Baltimore site. I wanted information about vegetarian restaurants in
Baltimore. I found out their are four restaurants. The Zodiac located at 1726 N.
Charles Street. Homicide filmed an episode at this restaurant. The other three
restaurants are: Foodtopia, Frenk's and Liquid Earth.