Friday, September 7, 2007

# 23 Is this really the end?

Top four favorite discoveries: Del.icio.us, Bloglines, LibraryThing and Wikis. Professionally and personally, I use all four regularly. I use del.icio.us to keep track of websites. It is so easy to use and keep the sites organized for future reference. I use Bloglines regularly to read the blogs I've added there. It's convenient to have them all in one place. I like LibraryThing suggestions for other books I might like based on my collection. I've found some enjoyable reads this way. I am thinking of creating a Wiki for the library. I am going to talk with an education class next week about setting up a Wiki for their class.

I enjoyed learning using this method. We covered a lot of different technologies in small bites with the opportunity to go into depth with anything that caught our interest. It was great having links to the resources within the text of the blog - enough resources to make it informative and interesting, but not so many that it became overwhelming. I am coming away from this with a greater awareness of all of the technologies we covered and some great new tools to help me professionally and personally. Thanks to everyone involved in this project.

I must admit that I would have done this project anyway, but the prospect of the free MP3 player at the end of the road kept me going to the end!

#22 Face-to-Face

MySpace is more accessible to the public which is a good feature if you want to check it out to see what it is all about. Facebook is less accessible which is good if you want limited visibility as a user. I am not sure how well they work for libraries - maybe because I don't have an interest in them, my imagination fails me.