Thing 23 -- The End

I found the 23-thing discovery program to be worthwhile and would certainly do it again. It has definitely impacted the way I think about my work, different ways of communicating, sharing information & ideas, social networking, etc. Have found some favorite blogs that I track. One thing to remember --> Gartner has identified five laws for companies participating in the virtual world. The 3rd law is to Be Relevant and Add Value. When mixing and remixing information in this new information landscape, remember to be relevant and add value.

Thing 22 -- Audiobooks

I downloaded a book onto my hard drive and am waiting to see what happens after 2 weeks. Once I get my MP3 player, I'll see if I can load one onto it.

Sam Mull

Cool Slideshows

Technology is THE tool ...

Something to think about when kids come in w/school assignments and tell us they "can't use the internet" from David Warlick's 2 cents worth blog entry on March 19th:

(back in the day [my words]) ... We were using the computer as a tool to help students learn to do things that we were, by and large, still doing on paper. We were using computers to continue the paper training of our children — and these tools were pretty good at it.
Today, however, computers are THE tool. Computers and the Internet are today’s information landscape. It is where we manage commerce, communicate, play, and access information, even the information we use to look up in an almanac. Twenty-eight years ago, those sixteen kilobyte computers were useful tools for helping children develop what were still paper-based skills.

The disturbing question today is, “Does paper represent an adequate tool for learning skills related to a digital networked information world?”
If not, why are we acting like it does?

Thing 21 -- Podcasts

Found some interesting podcasts:
The Library Channel gives news, information, and announcements forArizona State University Libraries. It includes lectures, roundtable discussions, announcements and tips in the latest trends for research libraries, recorded at ASU and released weekly.

The Kankakee Public Library Podcast broadcasts programs and events from the Kankakee Public Library.

The Johnson County Library's Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series delivers readings from locally and nationally known poets brought to the Johnson County Library in Kansas to present their work. Each reading event typically lasts an hour with two poets each month; each event is broken into two podcasts.

Hennipen County Library's TeenLinks Podcasts features audio recordings by teens for teens, including movie and book reviews and other topics of interest to teens.

Armin Brott, a nationally recognized parenting expert known as Mr. Dad has a Daddycast that provides the "knowledge, tools, encouragement, and support you need to be the kind of dad you want to be and that your family needs you to be."

Using bloglines as my web podcatcher, I added an RSS feed from the NBC5 News Podcast.

Thing 20 -- Video Hosting / YouTube

I could spend a lot of time in YouTube, and in fact, I do subscribe to geriatric1927.
For those of us who do storytimes for preschoolers, cullensabcs might be useful.

Thing 19 -- Web 2.0 Tools

Had fun looking around at various sites listed on the seomoz.org Web 2.0 awards list from March 2006 and set up a new homepage for my home computer using Pageflakes. Looked at Wetpaint and JotSpot for setting up hosted wikis; however Jotspot was already gone, having been bought by Google, which once again brings up security/ownership/longevity issues brought up in previous post when a site disappears.