#23 the end

My favorite spot was the web 2.0 online productivity tools. I was aware(somewhere in the back of my mind) but didn't know where to go. Now I do. This course forced me to look at sites and informatin I would not have done otherwise. Great Job! I'm sorry I let time get away and had to hit it hard the last three days to get done, but I'm glad I made myself do it.

audiobook world

I went on Librivox and persued their catalog. Lots of classics that are required readings for students are located here. It's an option I could give when our copy of Frankenstein is checked out and they need to read it that day. Almost all the teens have an mp3 player. Only downside is the amount of time to download. I experimented with Frankenstein-- a pretty small book-- and the time was 1 hour 22 minutes. Not something they could do here at the library and a lot have an even slower connection at home. But still a pretty cool site! I looked at Brooklyn Public Library and checked out their offerings. Audios and videos to download. Wonder how long the video download is-- does it work like netflicks which is almost instantaneous? I wish we had the $$ to offer the downloadable audios-- they would be very popular.

podcasting

This is my least favorite thing we've done. I just can't get into the podcasting. I like the vidcasting--. I do not have an mp3 so don't take the podcast with me places. I don't like going on the computer to listen to information. I tried to get my teens interested in creating promo podcasts for programs but couldn't get it organized-- schedule conflicts and such so I dropped it. Every once and a while I will listen to podcast on NPR but not very often. I did listen to a podcast on NPR today for this excercise.

youtube

this is a site I go to regularly. I love to play the really stupid videos--and believe me there are a lot of those. It can also be helpful at work. My Rockband footpedal for the drums broke. I went on utube and watched a video on how to repair using duct tape and we were good to go. There were several of these repair videos to chose from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ247OgBAeA

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web 2.0 toys

OMG. too much really fun and interesting stuff to do. I could have my whole life on the computer and never leave my chair. I looked at hairmixer and had fun changing up faces with makeup and hairstyles. I think the teens would really like this site(they probably found it two decades ago!) I also played around on the sports istat site. I am in a weight loss contest with my daughter and it would be ufun to post our results here and visually see how we've done. I noticed a lot of the award winners were sites you had us explore earlier such as flickr, google docs, etc. These apps are really cool , useful and a lot of fun. Thanks again Kam

microsoft office live workspace

This is terrific! I've got an excel spreadsheet I was moving back and forth between office and home. This will be very helpful. I also love Zoho writer and google docs. What a great way to save money and still have the programs needed. Fantastic!

microsoft office live workspace