life traveller

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Summary

Week 9
Step 23

Wow, I made it!
It is amazing what technology is out their, just at your finger tips. Youtube, flickr,mashups, newreader accounts, wkiks, sandbox, net library only to mention some.
It was well worth taking the time to have a look at what is happpening out there, the rate of change is amazing.
I see that netlibrary has a huge potentional for lots of reasons, as long as you have the internet you can access so much. People with disabilities, problems with distance, languages, sight and time issues can access titles and download them to their computers, ipods and mp3 player and listen to their books, radio sessions or extract from magazines.
I must acknowledge the wonderful assistance, encouragement and patiences that both Denise and Lynette have shown, it has been greatly appreciated.
Life traveller continues ......................................

Net Library

Week 9
Step 22

Have checked net library collection of titles, had a listen to "Clever Gretel" by Brothers Grimm and "The little Match girl" by Hans Christian Anderson.
The quality of the recordings is excellent. The potential for visual impaired people to ultalize this fomat is huge. Once the collection is increased to cater for all taste I can see that Net libtrary will be very successful. Individuals will be able to make a selection of titles and down load them to their mp3 player an have hours of listening please at their finger tips.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

pocasting

Week 9
Step 21

Internet very slow today podcast transmission very staggered.
Some that I checked out where as listed below;
http://www.abc.net.au/science/podcast/gmis.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/am/

Thursday, December 21, 2006

you tube

Week 9
Step 20
Check these out.
You tube is a wonderful way of sharing funny videos with every one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9l19D2sIHI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdAjGXFJw3s

zoho

Week 8
Step 18

I have checked out Zoho, it was very slow. I understand that it very similar to Word and that it can be access from any PC.

Web 2.0 Awards

Week 8
Step 19


I checked out many of the sites, so much information. These tools are would be very helpful in researching.
Having some- one else rating sites shortcut the process of checking for information.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

PBwiki

Week 7
Step 17

Have entered blog into favoites, waiting to get some hits.
The impact of the blogs is on the increase.


Wiki

Week 7
Step 16

Wikis are a great way of sharing your experience to an untold number of people.
Our Wiki for summer reading club should be a great place fo the kids to recomend to other kids what is a good read.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Web 2.0

Week 6
Step 15

With the way technology and the information resources are going, may we can down size our libraries now that the books have all left?
Articles as "just in case" make the future very interesting.

The “just in case” collection Crazy as this may sound, the time has come for us to look skeptically at the very idea of a library “collection.” Building a comprehensive collection of materials that anticipates the user’s every need (without providing wastefully where no need exists) has always been problematic, but it was an approach that made sense when information was available only in print formats, and was therefore difficult, expensive and slow to distribute. But it no longer makes sense to collect information products as if they were hard to get. They aren’t. In fact, it may no longer make sense to “collect” in the traditional sense at all. In my library, we’ve seen a 55 percent drop in circulation rates over the past twelve years, making it harder and harder to justify the continued buildup of a large “just in case” print collection. As a Web 2.0 reality continues to emerge and develop, our patrons will expect access to everything – digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. You think they can’t have everything? Think again. This may be our great opportunity

Monday, December 18, 2006

technorati

Weeek 6
Step 14


A sample of what I found!

Blah
18 hours ago
So I keep disappointing people. Im not trying to but I just keep on doing it. ...I think here soon Im gonna disappoint myself... Nobody knows Nobody knows but me That I sometimes cry If I could pretend that I'm asleep When my tears start to fall I peek out from behind these walls I think nobody knows Nobody knows no Nobody likes Nobody likes to lose their inner voice The one I used to hear before my life Made a choice But I think nobody knows No no Nobody knows No Baby Oh the secret's safe with me There's nowhere ...
...BLAH!...
11 days ago
Sooo.. Im sick of school.. I am trying to study for bio. but that does NOT seem to be happening. I keep getting distracted.. - - Also.. I really want to go and relax and have fun. I want to be able to go out with my friends and just have fun. NO DRAMA! I swear now a days thats all there is is drama. It sucks. I wish that for like one day there was no drama. But I really dont see that happening... - - Well I wrote this thinking it might help me.. But it didnt.. - - WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SO COMPLICATED???- - ...
Going Out!!
157 days ago
Hey there people! Well here in a little bit I am going to go see a movie with my good friend Miss. Brandi! We are going to go see The Devil Wears Prada! Which I have been wanting to see. So I cant wait!Mmk well I guess I am going to go now and finish getting ready! ♥ Love you! Danielle ...
IM STUPID!!!
174 days ago
Well people.. Im soooooooooooo stupid!!! Im so tired of this crap! And you know what.. Pretty much all of you have no clue what Im talking about.. So yeah.. Just ignore this.... ...
Work Scheldule..
176 days ago
Mmk well here is my work scheldule for those of you who would like to know when I will be at work or at home! *Sunday the 25th.. Off! *Monday the 26th.. 11:15am to 4:15pm *Tuesday the 27th.. Off! *Wednesday the 28th.. 12:00pm to 6:00pm *Thursday the 29th.. 1:00pm to 6:00pm *Friday the 30th.. 4:30pm to 9ish pm *Saturday the 1st.. 2:00pm to 7:00pm There we go that is this weeks scheldule! TTYL! ...

tagging/ Del.icio.us

Week 6
Step 13

Some comments from participants.

Citadel of the Blogs » Blog Archive » Starting With Web 2.0 Says: July 29th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
[…] “You are going to do a lot of exploration and reading on the net. You need a way to reference pages and sites. The “web 2.0 way” to do this is with “social tagging”, so open yourself an account on http://del.icio.us - and start tagging pages as recommended in The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users. By way of example, you can see how my del.icio.us account has grown to over 1,000 resources in about seven months only, and even when I hit 10,000 resources; I am confident I will be able to retrieve any page I want simply by combining my own keywords. For example, the list of my resources tagged both with “Web2.0″ and “Trends” can be accessed witha URL formatted like this: http://del.icio.us/Fidelis1970/Web2.0+Trends (”Fidelis1970″ is the name of my account on del.icio.us). Similarly, I know I can retrieve my own list of sites using drupal with the following URL: http://del.icio.us/Fidelis1970/drupal+Example” […]
Citadel of the Blogs » Blog Archive » del.icio.us starter kit Says: July 29th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
[…] The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users » Slacker Manager […]
links for 2006-08-07-- str1ke.us Says: August 7th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
[…] The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users » Slacker Manager excellent tips (tags: article del.icio.us tips reference howto blogging weblog 9rules productivity socialsoftware tagging tutorial folksonomy bookmarking) […]
links for 2006-08-20 Sriram Srinivasan’s blog Says: August 21st, 2006 at 8:56 pm
[…] The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users » Slacker Manager (tags: del.icio.us tips) […]

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Family medical conditions

Week 5
Step 12

http://rollyo.com/createroll.html?sid=86847

http://rollyo.com/search.html?q=McArdles+disease&sid=web

Library Thing

Week 5
Step 11


Books of my choice
Library Thing
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=toooohard


Week 5

Step 10



Lasted addition to our family