# 23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning?

Patted myself on the back (see a suitable flickr image on left). It certainly was an interesting but often frustrating journey. From a person who rarely uses the computer and used to rely on more computer savvy teenagers to acess any information for me, I found it very time consuming because as well as understanding the various sites I also had to refamilise myself with the computor features. However Learning 2.0 has made me so much more confident and interested in using the web and its many new capabilities.

Some of the highlights were:

• The discovery of free eaudiobook site. As a using of audio books I certainly will be using this site while awaiting free eaudiobook from libraries.
• Learning to use podcasts.
• Flickr and YouTube were sites I have heard so much about and now I can confidently use them.

While I certainly enjoyed the challenge I would have preferred that the program was structured more as a tutorial rather then explorational base program. This would have been less time consuming and may have resulted in a more consistent outcome.

And yes I would certainly participate in future programs.

# 22 Audiobooks

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/

I was unable to create an account for Netlibrary so I decided to play around with other EAudiobooks sites and discovered the above site which offers free download for a selections of Eaudiobooks. I downloaded a Mark Twain book "1 million pound note" which was of quite good quality. There were many site selling eaudiobooks for a fee.

#21 Podcasts. Smodcasts

I looked at two of the podcast directories but decided to search the ABC radio site instead, because as a regular listener I have heard them advertise their podcasting program and I have always wanted to visit it. So I went to their site then pasted the selected POD url to my Bloglines feed reader. Now I can listen to the new broadcasts as they arrive.

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/happypappy.

Exercise 20 - Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shlzG-LZteA
What a find! My favourite TV show Get Smart. This should tie me over until my Get Smart complete dvd set arrives.
This site was great fun although annoying because the videos that interested me were not complete. I was also concerned that it seems very easy to post videos which might upset and offended people.
Try as I may I can't think of any YouTube site features or components that are applicable to the current library website.

Exercise 19 Discovering Web 2.0 Tool

Golly that took awhile! Heaps of interesting sites to explore. I tried to post to my blog a short video but it took so long for the email to complete registration to arrive that I couldn't wait. So if its there next time i check my email, I'll attempt it. However the site which interested me most was the podicast site odeo.com. As a ardent listener to talkback and current affairs radio when houseworking, gardening exercising etc, I will find it very handy to be able to download programs which match my interests so that I can listen to them when it suits me. Theo Odeo site had a simple classification by topic which makes it easy to find what you want. I imagine that this type of thing could also be useful in a library where people want to access broadcast information about specific subjects.

Exercise 18 Zoho

These applications must be of great concern to Microsoft. Beside having all the keys features of Microsoft's office, the most attractive feature I think is the fact that you can sit at any internet-enabled computor and access your documents without having your usb stick,cd,or floppy disc. I made a couple of attempts to post my documents to my blog but unfortunately was unsuccessful.

Exercise 17

I enjoyed telling everyone about my favourite TV spy spoof Get Smart.