and now the real journey has just begun

Some of the equipment needed for my e-journey. And the big bonus I didn't need to be at the airport by midnight.

Oh joy of joys I have finished my learning 2.2. I did let a bit of doubt creep in at times and I had the 'I will never finish this' feeling but finish it I did and now I look back and think that wasn't so bad afterall. Actually it was at times totally frustrating. Just trying to get the time and at times finding a handy little helper available when I needed them was the hardest bit. No on second thoughts understanding what it was that I was reading or supposed to be doing or actually getting it to work the way that it was meant to work was the most frustraing part or maybe it was stareing down the endless list of things still left to do... Anyway on my e-journey I have encounted many many things that I would never have known about and now I have a little understanding of a lot of these things. It is now up to me to build on what I have already learnt and make this e-journey truely worthwhile.

audiobooks

This is only the beginning. Great to see so many out of print and hard to find books made available through this media. A lot have been scanned which must have been hugely time consuming. You would really need a passion to scan your whole collection. I also had a look at Dymocks and for around $8 you can instantly buy a downloadable audio book for your ipod. Think of what is available now and what will be available in 5 years time.

podcasts, smodcasts

While doing my rounds of the podcasts and something to do with libraries etc I came across Sunnyvale Public Library www.sunnyvale.ca.gov/Departments/Library. Fantastic. I’m still trying to work out exactly how to get a feed from their site to my blog. Guess I will have to wait until I am able to find he who knows everything. If I put a few nice treats in the fridge I am hoping that that will bring him out into the open. Sunnyvale public liibrary is definately worth a look.

you tube cont......

Oh boy. This was fun and totally frustrating. I was in a car riding into a thunderstorm, on the side of a motorbike riding into Derby WA, I saw some beautiful historic photos of Conegliano Italy and watched a couple of guys sitting by the fridges outside of Euston enjoying an ale or two and 'talking' to the big trucks as they drove past. Then I found this wonderful card trick and decided that this was what I was going to add to my blog. This is where the frustration began. After trying many imaginitive ways to put this in my blog, I looked up instructions by doing a google search. It still didn't work. I eventually dragged one who knows all away from his homework. Oh thats easy he said full of know how. Uh uh no it wasn't. I did however have the right idea it was just that my video was also linked to a web site and when copying the embed info we had to copy piece by piece leaving out the www.http and then putting it back into the code after we had copied it. OK I think I hear you laugh there is an easier way than that. There may be but this worked for us.

you beaut you tube

web 2.0 tools

Wow there seems to be something for everyone and I guess knowing what is available is the first step in being able to find what you are looking for. I decided to investigate Picnik an online photo editor. I found it interesting but not what I was really looking for. I use Picasa and find it great for organising my photos and giving me easy access. It is very simple to email photos from Picasa and it automatically resizes them as well.

These are a few other sites that I thought sounded good or interesting. I did explore a few other sites at well but some seemed to be inhabited by 12 year olds and though they sounded fun didn't live up to expectations.

photolinko free photo hosting

trugo a personal way to express yourself

orca a computer desktop on a homepage

fam fridge connecting families closer together

my blog zoho

Well this has solved the problem of what to write about in Zoho writer. Feeling impatient I went back to Zoho sign in and clicked on the link ... if you have not received a confirmation email and it suggested the email may have gone to my junk mail folder and bingo there it was. So I am turning into a real wizz at this compter stuff. Now I am going to see if I can easily import this page into my blog. I guess I will find out if I am turning into the wizz kid I think I am as I have no handy little helper on standby.

LOOKY LOOK this has worked. Can you believe it, it worked. How easy was that?

Zo this is Zoho

Zoho sounds fantastic. I think - apart from the blog this would have to be my favourite thing so far. Now I say sounds fantastic as I signed up to Zoho and have been eagerly awaiting my confirmation email ever since. Well OK it has only been a couple of hours but I thought the email would be instant and I can't wait to have a really good look around at this and to do a bit of experementing. If it is as good as it sounds I may never use Word again. How great to have access to all documents no matter which computer I am on and being able to access templates messenging and nearly anything else computer wise that I may desire all from the one source.

Sandbox play time

I've been here before as well. Guess it is not doing me any harm to do a refresher on this section. And I definately know that I haven't been any further than here. I had already added my blog to the ERL section of the favoutite blogs page so from now on this learning thing is going to become a lot harder as I haven't been there and done that before. It is now after midnight but it has been worth it to get a bit more done to my blog. It has been one of those little guilt things that has been niggling away at me. What I don't get done in the next couple of weeks though will just have to wait as I will be taking a couple of holidays yay. Actually I think the holidays are just a good excuse not to complete the 23 things. Isn't amazing how inovative I can be in finding diversions to take me away from my blog.

Wiki

Once again I've been here and done that. Obviously I am just not good at keeping my blog up to date. I have used Wikipedia a lot. I find it very useful when try to find authors works etc. Up until now I have not really taken the time to find out how it worked but now I have a better understanding of it. Like a lot of things you cannot believe everything you read but I do find it a very useful tool. I suppose in some ways if anyone can add, edit or delete content it would help to keep content honest. And how do you know which version is the correct one. If an article is altered severely who makes the final decision as to which is the correct content. Actually the more I think about this the more questions I have so maybe I had better do a bit more reading.
Wiki a Hawaiian word for fast was originally described as the simplest online database that could possibly work. Someone in another article suggested Wiki stood for What I Know Is! Oh well guess I'd better keep reading.

library 2.0 web 2.0 & me 2.0

I read and could see onward and upward and outward was the way for libraries to go to stay relevant. About the only thing the articles didn't suggest was broadcasting the library message as a Beatle song into the universe to try to capture an as yet untapped market.
It has been with great trepidation that I have ventured to write something about Libraries 2.0 etc so I will leave it at that.

Technorati

Wow I am ahead of myself. I realised this looked familar and found that I had already signed up for it. Now to the next step of finding out what it is all about. Well very interesting and I have found some great blogs and websites as well. Still looking around but have put 2 into my favourites and given them tags.

Christmas was a month ago!

I am sure I must be reading the calender wrong. A whole month since Christmas and even longer since I last accessed my blog. And the amazing thing is I still remember how to do it. It is Australia Day tomorrow so I guess that makes the date correct. Now that I am back maybe I will get started on the L2.2. - when I work out where I am up to.