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# 23: The Beginning, Not the End

I want to thank CTLS for offering this course. I've enjoyed it and learned so much.
I've enjoyed traveling through the course with co-workers, who are so helpful. I learned things that I will use personally and in assisting patrons. There is so much on the Internet, I'm continually amazed.
What and how to do a blog, Flickr, RSS, and an avatar etc. are some of the things I learned about. I think my favorite discovery was Yahoo Music.
The course was organized well and directions and links were very helpful. I realize I could go back through the course and learn even more. But, in the mean time I feel so much more knowledgeable about new technology.
I would participate in another program.

#22: Audiobooks

As I write this blog, I'm listening to Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs, read by Allyson Hester. I just went to the web and easily picked a title from the list. I didn't know if I could listen to it, it sounded like I might have to download something first. But, I just went to How to Listen and clicked, and followed these directions:

“right-click/save as” the “zip file of the entire book” onto your hard drive

It only took a few minutes and I was listening to the story, using Windows Media Player, already on my computer. After all the video and images, we have seen, I was surprised to find the audio reading so interesting.

I think having the audiobooks on line is even more convenient than the Talking Book Program. My father used it when his vision failed. Living by himself, even though the program made it as easy as they could, it was some what hard for him to send and receive requests.

Podcast= pod + cast

I learned that podcast can be audio or video. Some of the podcast couldn't be viewed until something was installed, but some came up fine. At podcast.com, under library, some good audio was available. They talked about oral histories, that's a great idea for libraries, and the author interviews. I remember just a few years ago, local history classes making oral histories on VHS tapes, to store in the archives room, what a change in audience size.
I looked at Just One More Book, a podcast recommended by Julia, it did look good. I'm sure some searching would bring about a lot of useful ones, that would be good to subscribe to.


“podcast” comes from the combination of iPod + broadcast

YouTube: Positive Thoughts

I visited You Tube. It's so easy, any subject in the search brings up videos. This one I picked is very pretty. It contains positive thoughts.
"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost". ZigZiglar

For the library, I think it would be fun to video summer programs and activities. I don't know about legal issues.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIpQCkfORgc

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