23rd Thing

Well, I had my doubts when I started, but I made it through to the 23rd thing. I am surprised at how much I enjoyed working on this learning project, and at how well it went! I learned that you don't have to be technical genius to do a lot of this stuff. I can see how someone could get hooked on these tools, especially if he had a lot of time to experiment. I don't know how much I'll use what I've learned, but at least I have a much better understanding of what web 2.0 is about.

The thing that might be my favorite and the most likely thing that I will continue to use is flickr. I also enjoyed Library Thing, del.icio.us, and of course YouTube.

Overdrive

I took the Overdrive guided tour and watched the "how to" videos. I don't use mp3 players, but I think that the tour explains downloading clearly enough for me to figure out how to get an audiobook downloaded to a player. The video on burning to CD seems to do a good job of explaining things. In my opinion, it would be very difficult for non-techie types to figure out how to do this stuff without very clear explanations. We've got a long way to go as far as simplifying things for ease of use.

I tried searching for audiobooks by subject and didn't get much in the way of hits. I had to resort to searching for best-selling authors. The selection of books beyond best-selling authors appears to be pretty limited. I might be tempted to try using audiobooks if the selection was better.

Podcasts

After stumbling around a little, I was able to subscribe to a podcast through Bloglines. I am a little confused about podcasts, but NPR's podcast directory has a Help section which cleared up some of the questions. The various sites that I visited were set up in different ways and that added to the confusion. It would make it easier if there was some uniformity between sites.

Summer Reading Program

I chose the Summer Reading Program video. I had trouble using Blogger's "Add Video" button, but I was able to post the video by just pasting its code into my blog entry.

Youtube is great because it's got so much in it. I can track down old TV shows and video of musicians from decades ago. I've even gone to it for research purposes.

One thing that our library might do is videotape some of our more popular programs for adults and children and place them on our website.

Wufoo

I tried out Wufoo which I used to make a form. I was surprised at how easily it went. I created a form with check boxes, drop down menus, etc. I was just goofing around without a specific goal in mind. It might get a little tougher to create a form for a specific purpose.

Zoho Writer

I tried Zoho Writer and had mixed results. Creating the document was similar to using Word, so it went well for the most part. But somehow I deleted a table and had to go back and recreate it. Naming and saving the document was no problem, but I couldn't find Zoho's equivalent to a file/close command. My previous post was published from Zoho.

zohotest

So, I'm trying out Zoho, and it seems to be working fine. 

 

Bold

 

italics

 

centering

 

"Undo" didn't work exactly as I expected. all the time.  Neither did "redo." 

 

 

Bullets:

• One
• Two
• Three 

 Tables

abc	def
ghi
			xyz