Summary Post

This exercise makes me feel like I am falling behind the learning curve for Web 2.0. Again, "the more I know about the internet, the more I know I don't know about it." I am still not sure of what I am going to do with the knowledge I gain, either from this exercise or any where else. I love to learn about the world around me and what other people are learning.

My favorite discovery was the posting of driving experiences on U-Tube.

I want to set up a personal wiki for my cousins to post ancedotes about their experiences and stories about my grandfather. His father fought in the Civil War. My grandfather came across country in a covered wagon to homestead in Oklahoma, and he lived long enough to see men land on the moon.

I should be blogging and recording my life experiences, but I never took time to even keep a journal before the paradigm changed.

I enjoyed this experience, and I will encourage my staff to take part in it even more so now that I have finished it.

I would definitely participate in additional discovery programs such as this. It has been easier for me to participate in my spare-time rather than in a classroom setting.

NetLibrary / Guttenberg Project

I created a logon fpr Netlibrary, and displayed the "Mathematics and Statistics" booklist. There were 50 titles listed and most of them seemed priced rather high (2 out of 50 were priced below $50.)

The Gutenberg Project site was more to my tastes because it provides free downloads. I looked at the "Top 100 Downloads" and noticed that "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe was listed. This version was a French and English translation illustrated by Gustave Dore. I had a dnice Bibliographic record as well as copies of the illustrations.

I was interested in posting a digital copy of books we have scanned, so I clicked on "How to Donate." I discovered this was how to donate funds to support the Gutenberg Project.

YouTube

The video I chose was "Petite du Toure Lotus Seven JPE" It does not a have an application to our library's website. It is fun to watch a Lotus Super Seven being driven: curves easily passing by; mini-van impeding a sports car enthusiast's fun; the shear joy of driving in an open car.

I have not visited YouTube until today, and the videos of people driving their Lotus Super Seven's inspires me to get my back on the road.

Web 2.0 Award Winning Sites

I looked at "Wayfaring" in mapping. I have some experience with Google maps, so I thought I would try something else.


First I tried the "Build a map of your event." The first thing I noticed was how slow it was to load, and I waited for the map to come up I noticed that it was "Powered By Google." It was taking so long to load that I had time to notice that it was loading "Hybrid" so I clicked on "Map" and it came right up.

Clicking on the middle of the "zoom" scale caused the page to slow down again. I am using a 100 Mbps link, and 2 full minutes to update the map seems to be too much of a delay.

I switched back to "Create a map of your life." The posts by various people to the "BilOregon" map which was the default were in several different languages. But still not map after 2 minutes, just a lot of numbered "push-pins" that did not link to anything. I abandoned "Wayfaring" because it took so long to load the maps.

Next I tried "Frappr!" It appears to me that this site is a social networking site with a world map as the main entry point with various subjects linked to it.

Zoho Writer

“My favorite car is the Lotus Super Seven Series 2, but the Lotus automobiles are all interesting to me. The early Lotus Elite was fascinating, and the modern Elise is keeping in the tradition of light, fast cars.”
Being able to save this document to my computer is a nice feature.

I was not able to post it directly to my blog because it is not on "Blogger" or one of the other default blog sites.

I was not able to save the file as HTML on my computer. When I tried to save it as a Rich Text Format file, it only kept the formatting for the outline.

I saved it as a “Word” document to my desktop and did a “copy/paste” to put it in this blog.

Wiki's

Wiki's could be useful in reviewing books and recommending books to other library users. You could have an online book discussion group using wiki's.

I also see wiki's as a way to collect and preserve local history that would normally be "oral" histories.

My Views on Library 2.0

Some of Web 2.0 is being incorporated into library's policies and procedures; some changes need to be done by library suppliers and venders so libraries can utilize Web 2.0's technologies; some newer technologies have not gotten enough attention on the web to be applied to libraries; libraries and librarians will find what is being used on the web and apply it to their librarys.