Putting 23 Things to Use

I created a wiki for my team to discuss options for some money we've generously been given. I used pbwiki and was impressed with the ease of setting everything up. I really felt like I was putting the things I learned in 23 things to use and I'm sure this is just the first of many times that I will use the information I learned while doing those things.

23 Completed Things

I really enjoyed completing 23 things. Some were things that I had done before like creating a blog and using Flickr but other such as bloglines were new. My favorite exercises were probably you tube (those videos are hilarious), Library Thing and creating the avatars. All of those things were enjoyable.
I am always interested in learning new technologies. And this gave me an excellent chance. Nothing really surprised me but some things were a little more complicated to figure out then I had thought at first and there turned out to be some new aspects to things I had used before.
I thought the program was really good. However it would have been nice if the blogs on the participants page were organized by branch instead of birthdays. It would have made it a lot easier to tell which blogs belonged to which people.
If a program like this one were done in the future I will definately participate again. I really enjoyed it. I really thought this program helped keep me up on new technology in a fun way. the "things" or exercises were easy to complete but definately taught lessons and allowed me to experiment with things I wouldn't normally have sought out and tried on my own.

Downloadable Audio Books

I explored the various web sites connected with downloadable audio books. I was impressed by how many title were available to checkout. I followed the directions on the overdrive tutorial. I used my fiance's laptop to download overdrive and actually listen to a bit of an audio book just so I would actually know how to to do it. However there are a bunch of titles that are missing such as the Harry Potter books, which are amazing in their audio versions. I thought Project Gutemburg was really neat too. I hope in the future more and more titles are available online although I know patrons will probably have mixed reactions to that. I ended up downloading Bread and Roses Too by Kathrine Paterson. It wasn't a book that I was really eager to read but I had seen a review of it while ago and it sounded interesting.

Podcasting

I've listened to Mugglecast, which is a podcast about Harry Potter before. Although I always downloaded it through itunes because it so much easier! I used Yahoo! Podcasts to look up various podcasts although I added the link for my bloglines account from podcast alley. In addition to a few Harry Potter podcasts, which I only listened to the begining because most of those are quite long I also looked up and listened to some book reviews and one podcasts about booktalking. I really enjoyed the book talking one since it was nice to hear a short and sweet description of a few children's books. I tried creating my own audio but it was taking forever for the studio to connect and I decided it wasn't worth it. Anyways I really didn't have much to say other then "testing, testing, testing" "can you hear me"? Maybe I'll try later.