Thursday, July 10, 2008
23 Thoughts
The online applications will be very useful in the future when I go back to college and thus will definitely help me with some of my goals. I was suprised by some of the more difficult exercises. Like the tagging, the RSS feeds, and Technorati. All these were new to me and were slightly difficult to understand so I was suprised that we were exposed to them here. Though they were interesting nonetheless and they provided useful knowledge into the many diffferent uses of the internet.
The program's concept was a very good idea. It helps us keep up to date with the internet and its many uses and allows for us to see how the library can be incorporated in many other areas as well. The format was well layed out yet sometimes it seemed there was a lot to do one week and not as much the next. However every exercise per week usually related to each other, which was helpful. I would participate again in another discovery program such as this.
Digital Audiobooks
Podcasts
YouTube video
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Last
Zoho Writer
As I continue along on these weekly exercises in 23 things, I learn more and more. For example I had NO idea that there were free word processing software on the internet that could be accessed from any computer. This is a great idea and one I REALLY wish I knew when I was in college. And who knew about the spreadsheets and slide presentations on Google Docs? I sure didn't! There were so many times in college when I forgot my zip drive or had to use my email to get my documents from one computer to the next. I had no printer the last year I was in college thus was constantly in the computer lab printing and I never failed to have problems with the transfer. But if I knew about this software on the internet all I would have had to do was just type the paper (spreadsheet/presentation) here or upload it here and just get it on the next computer with internet access. Zoho Writer has all the features of Microsoft Word thus it is not that different and easy to use and figure out. I guess the only potential problem with this is internet connection. If it goes out and you don't have a back-up copy that could be a problem. But of course that is always something that has been necessary...always have a back-up! Now to try and post to blog.....