21.5 a bit more

I did put the create your own podcast link into my favourites to look at later, this could become really useful in making podcasts that the local schools could maybe link to from their home pages showing the kids that libraries really aren't uncool! and that just maybe we could help them with their school work. You could have podcasts on how to use some of the libraries databases to search for school assignment topics, how to use the library catalogue from home, you could podcast about new music cds and dvd's in the library, anything to get them in, once they're in they might stay.

21 Podcasts and everything

Well, this is something I think I could get really into. I did however find the directories full of stuff I really don't want, and it was hard to find what I did want. So I then went to Itunes as I am lucky enough to have my daughters old Ipod, lucky me! This was reasonably easy, a lot of the podcasts were free and easy to download, you could download more than one at a time and I now have a couple to put onto the ipod and then I can listen to them anywhere, sounds good doesn't it.
I then tried to add a podcast to my poor neglected bloglines account. This was really easy as well and I have now suscribed to Mugglecast, and as I am typing this I am listening to a podcast how cool!
I had actually already suscribed to a couple of podcast but didn't realise it, silly me.
I will need to spend some time on locating the good podcasts as this was a problem. Itunes had a lot, but surely don't have everything, and this is just something that will take some thinking on how to find good relevant stuff.

20 Well I can You tube

The first go didn't work, I found this silly clip of people doing a broadway song and dance in a library, but I couldn't copy all the code needed to put it into my blog, so I tried this one. It is a trailer for "The Hollywood librarian" a documentary film on Hollywood Librarians. Enjoy!

P.S. You could waste many many hours on You Tube couldn't you!

19 Discovering Web 2.0 Tools

Well, I just may be a little web 2.0'd out. I picked music to look at as it is probably the one I would most likely be asked about at work. Working through the list, Pandora wouldn't work, so I tried last fm. I had to download it to my computer and then create a playlist so I could get a widget to put onto my blog. Now you all know my weird music tastes. Anyhow, it took a while and I would have to spend longer to try and fully understand it, little things like there only seems to be 30 seconds of each song there as I was quickly picking them to try and generate the list. And I now have another username and password to add to my ever expanding list!

Zoho ho ho

Or in this politically correct world should that be Zoha ha ha. The previous post is actually a zoho document that I published to my blog, not that you can tell that, very cool!!!

limerick

A happy young lady named Mary
wanted all of the books she could carry.
"Books and info I'll get,and some time on the 'Net...
And it's all for free at the Library!"