Monday, March 31, 2008

L22

The information on the Greater Phoenix Digital Library site about the structure of the site is superb.

The title I found is the Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1-6. It will be the first item I download to my mpc3.

Michael Su

L21

This is a great tutorial. I am not sure I now know how to add an RSS feed for a podcast to my bloglines account but I will continue to play with this until I do ( maybe not by April 7 but soon).

A site which has captured my attention is LearnOutLoud, especially the Great Speeches in History series. I will be spending a lot of time at this resource.

Michael Su

L20

The admonition in the You too can YouTube lesson about encountering a "lot of trash" on these types of sites was certainly true. Nonetheless, nuggets are to be found among the content.

Michael Su

L19

My exploration of this site took me to farecast.com. What an interesting idea! I will have to play around with this site at home to determine whether it is just another sales venue (with a unique gimmick) or if its assertions about the timing of purchases truly separates it from others.

Michael Su

L18

I am not sure I derived as much from this exercise re Web-based apps as was intended. At some point, I will have to explore this subject at home and learn more about this array of applications .

Michael Su

L17

I enjoyed playing around in the wiki sandbox. I did acess the spls Learning 2.0 Wiki but I am not sure if I was successful in creating a login account. I was successful in acessing the Favorite TV page and did add a comment about Animal Planet.

Michael Su

Thursday, March 27, 2008

L16

Wikis appear to be non-authorative as sources of information, in essence nothing but glorified chat rooms. I was struck by the admonition in the Library Successes posting about recent vandalism. My impression of this whole wiki experience is that it should probably be the last place anyone should access for reliable information.

Michael Su

Friday, March 21, 2008

L15

I enjoyed Rich Anderson's comments on the threats to a full implementation of Library 2.0.

It is laudable to seek to eliminate barriers between patrons and information, especially as it relates to research. I would caution those who continually push the technological options in libraries to remember that in certain areas, e.g., books of fiction or children's picture books, hard/print options will rule for a long time.

I do not ever want to reach the point where my only option at a library to obtain a best-seller is restricted to a non-print choice.

Michael Su

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

L14

The more I learn about technorati the more I am interested in continuing to explore its possibilities.

My search for Learning 2.0 gave me 17,543 results. Wow!

Michael Su