Week 8 Online application tools

A reflection of the program so far......

Well..... it has taken 44 blogs for the first one to be named "The evil librarian" .
You can read what this librarian is doing on the ATO partcipants blog

Online image generators have been a great success with some great images being posted on peoples blogs.

The following two are just examples of what can be done through some imaginative interaction with web 2.0 tools

Not many people seem to be inspired by "Library Thing"...perhaps not many aspiring cataloguers among us, or maybe the cataloguers just want to keep their jobs

Anyway I hope you are having fun playing with these web 2.0 tools, and learning about new applications as you go.

Week 8 see us exploring the following two exercises:

#18 Online productivity (word processing, spreadsheets) tools.

For this exercise you will use Zoho as an example.

Follow this link to a podcast and discovery exercise # 18

I am using google docs (another example of an online productivity tool) to track your progress through these exercises

#19 Examples of Web 2.0 excellence

Follow this link to Discovery exercise #19 where you will be looking at some web 2.0 applications that are considered to be outstanding...and have either been nominated or won awards.
[There is no podcast fo this exercise]

Learning 2.0 ...discovering web 2.0 technoloiges through PLAY!

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

Wow! Congratulations!!

You’ve reached the 23rd thing.
Be sure to give yourself a pat on the back for completing the program.

There is just one more discovery activity for you to post to your blog

For your last and final exercise for this program please reflect on your learning journey and post a few thoughts.

Here are some questions to prompt you if you're drawing a blank ...

What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?

In closing, I want to thankyou you all for joining us on this learning 2.0 journey.

This ATO -23 Things Program has been based on the PLCMC Learning 2.0 program developed by Helene Blowers of the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County.
Many thanks to Helene Blowers for allowing us to use her program.
Learning 2.0 is licensed under Creative Commons

#22 Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight ")

Podcasts:
The ABC Radio has a host of regular Podcasts.
774 ABC Melbourne invites you to put on your walking shoes, turn on your MP3 player and discover Melbourne’s secrets with the ABC Melbourne Podtours: Eat, Drink Melbourne, Death, Dirt & Disease and Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows.
Whether you are a visitor to the city or a born and bred local, you’ll be surprised at the stories you'll uncover in Melbourne’s hidden lanes and historical buildings.
Join Derek Guille, Jon Faine and Red Symons as they guide you through the sights, sounds and smells of Melbourne town with the free audio tours that you can download to your MP3 player.


Downloadable eAudiobooks are becoming more popular in library situations.
Subscription services such as Netlibrary and Overdrive enable libraries to purchase audio files, so library members can download them onto their mp3 players.
The beauty of this is that after the loan period expires, the audio file is deleted from the mp3player.
Wow...NO OVERDUES OR LIBRARY FINES !

The Net Library Link from the '23 Things' Blog is unavailable, please use this Fantastic alternative.

For this discovery exercise, you merely need to familiarize yourself a bit with the structure of the World EBook fair site (a free siteDownloadable eAudiobooks site)

Take a look around and locate a few titles of interest.

Discovery Resource:

• World EBook Fair - Gutenberg's Audio eBook Collection

Discovery Exercise:

Click on the eAudiobooks link and explore some of the titles

These are FREE downloads here from the Gutenberg Project.
If you have Real Player or Windows Media Player installed you can listen right there or download to an MP3 device

Interesting links can also be found at the

• World EBook Fair site


• Historical Childrens EbookseMovies


• Other collections

Create a blog post about your findings.