She told me I could tell the world!!!

Guess what everybody Lyndal is getting married!

Congratulations to Nico and Lyndal on their engagement.

To Nico's family and friends in South Africa, Thank You for taking good care of Lyndal and accepting her into your lives.

With love from all of your family and friends back in Australia.

#23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning ...

AAAHHHH!!! I made it.
Well favourites sites. I can't say that I have any stand outs. There were many things that I thought were good like LibraryThing.
How the the program assisted or affected my life. Well it certainly added more stress to my life at times when I was already trying to keep up with deadlines for other study I've been doing at the same time.
Take aways or unexpected outcomes. Well I thought, yeah I'll play with this stuff and have a bit of a look, but I must say that I already have a few customers in mind to recommend some of the things I have looked at during this exercise.
As PinkLil said in a previous blog that Zoho.com is certainly useful and will be recommended to customers. I will be doing the same because we too don't have Office Word on our public PCs as yet. Also I have a few customers in mind to recommend LibraryThing to because I know they do a fair bit of online searching for books and are avid readers.

My final word on computers, Learning 2.0 and ever changing technologies.

I'm going bush and becoming a hermit!

#22 Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight ")

Well I must say I was impressed with the World Ebook Fair Site and will have a look at that again in the future.

21. Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.

I am already a bit familiar with podcasts as I currently listen to the Get This radio program with Tony Martin (D Generation and Late Show fame) on Triple Smegheads. So named because the show is axed at the end of the month. Anyway, I did have a look at the other podcast directories and no I didn't add anything to my bloglines account because there was nothing that caught my attentiona and the one that did had no feed.

I will explore more in the future when time permits.

SSSHHH! Quiet please in the Muppet Library!

#20 You too can YouTube

Being a dog lover I couldn't resist looking up dog videos on YouTube. I found this clever little dog that reminds me of Wishbone. If anyone can remember the US kids show call Wishbone that had a little supersleuth dog.

I don't mind YouTube and can see some good use for it. I noticed that some other libraries did post some serious stuff on YouTube and this could be a valuable to other libraries around the world to get ideas. Maybe share training or promotional videos.

I don't use YouTube a great deal and the only time I really use it is when I hear someone talking about a particular clip I maybe interested in, then I'll have a look.
Otherwise one downside I can see with sites like YouTube is that it's a good time wasting tool. But then I suppose that's sometimes why people look at YouTube, to waste time instead of doing other things.

#19 Discovering Web 2.0 tools

Hey, I've found something I like. I had a look at the awards. I wasn't interested in anything in particular so I was just going to pick anything at random when I saw something called Guess-The-Google. It's in the Games section. I thought it had something to do with the guy who does the different Google logos for significant dates. It didn't, what you do is look at 20 montages of images that actually appear when doing google searches and you have to guess what word you would use as a Google search term to find those images shown. For example, one montage had wind turbines and other things that appeared to be blowing in the wind so I guessed the search term to be the word wind and it was correct.

It's just a fun little guessing game to have a go at and to try to beat the clock because you are timed on each guess.

Also I think the directory is very good and I liked the fact that when you move your mouse over one of the images in the directory it shows a little summary.

#18 Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.

Pass, I have no comment on this one.

#17 Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.

Been there, done that. I just have to say that if anyone hasn't added their blog yet to the PLCMCLearning Wiki you don't need to put your URL in brackets. As I saw in comments posted by people who were logged on the same time as me in the PLCMCLearning Wiki. Someone who was logged in said they couldn't add their blog as instructed, not until they did as a another wiki participant suggested and ignored the brackets.

#16 Week 7: Wikis

If I was a teacher I would ban the use of Wikipedia.
I did find the Commoncrafts Videos' demonstration of wikis very useful. I enjoyed watching it and it helped me to understand wikis. Maybe it's my learning style but I found it easier to watch the video demonstration to understand the process. I can see it being useful in the context as shown in the video, but as an authoritative tool I'm still not sure.

I have to agree with some of the views presented in the suggested reading and comments attached that say wikis have the potential to be nothing more than a platform for gossip, extreme negative views or derogatory comments/views against particular people or subject matters.

I still need to find even more positive examples of wikis before I'm convinced.

#15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ...

It's getting to the end of the day and my eyes feel like they're starting to hang out of my head. I have read the other views on Library 2.0. Comment? How can I comment when I'm getting sick of the sight of computers and I want to go home and open a real book and read. You know those things made out of paper, bound together and usually with a lovely decorated dustjacket on it.
I'm starting to relate to those people that suddenly pack in there jobs and 'go bush'. You know live off the land, have no technology to interfere with their lives.

#14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

As I said in my previous post I've had a look but I don't think I'll be using this either. It doesn't mean I won't recommend these tools to people who will actually use them and find them useful, I will certainly pass this information on to others.
Whatever floats your boat, but frankly it doesn't float mine!!!

#13 Tagging, folksonomies, etc.

Well I've had a look and I'm getting sick of this sharing with anonymous people in cyberspace.
I've already shared way more information about myself then I ever normally would just to be able to complete this Learning 2.0 training. If I sound like a whingeing stick in the mud then too bad. I can see it's purpose but I'm not using it.

#12 Roll your own search tool Rollyo.

Well I've come this far. I've created a Rollyo account and added my search roll to my blog, but until I have time to really have a good go at Rollyo I think it's of limited use to me so far. I can see how it may be very useful for many people. Especially for someone who travels a lot or doesn't have a dedicated PC they use that would already have their favourite sites loaded.
I shall explore Rollyo more at a later date, but until then I will continue with trying to get 2.0 completed before the deadline.

A huge thanks to PinkLil

I must say a huge thanks to PinkLil for saving my sanity this morning by helping me with adding my random books powered by LibraryThing as seen on the PinkLil Blog.
And just to show how clever PinkLil is I've been able to use the information I have just been given to add a list of 'My websites of interest'. PinkLil is my first well admittedly not website, but blog to go on my list. Feel free to check out PinkLil's blog because I have always had a great respect for PinkLil's knowledge of literature (that includes picture books) and you never know you may find an interesting new title to read from PinkLil's list of random books powered by LibraryThing.

#11 All about LibraryThing

I have added only five books as suggested, but at some stage will obviously add more to LibraryThing. I like the idea of LibraryThing and have already thought of a few people that I can suggest it to. I'm thinking especially of those people I know who are happy to browse the net to find books and books related information in their own time. LibrayThing might just add another useful element to their book searching experience.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/colourpatch

#10 Part 2

These are the offerings I have from yesterday after I worked on #10 in Learning 2.0.
I'm still trying to get my head around blogs and how to post. I suppose it's all
with time and practise.

Anyway, the top three are images I used from LetterJames, one of the image generators we were to try out and the little fantasy pony is from one of the sites off The Generator Blog. You have to make a combination of colour choices for both a mother and father fantasy horse and if they had a pony this is supposed to be what it looks like. Just thought it was fitting to have a horse/pony theme for Melbourne Cup day yesterday.

By the way, Half Man Half Biscuit are a real band. They're from the UK. Check them out on iTunes. Especially their albums Achtung Bono and the Cammel Laird Social Club. Possibly two of their best albums.

#10 Play around with Image Generators

I've just played around with the Image Generators and had some fun and some frutration. The Generator blog has some great stuff and I had a look at a number of things. I played around with a few things that I didn't have to sign up for and I even have something to show for it. Well I thought I did because i can't get the images I mde in letterjames.com and in the fantasy pony site in Generator blog off the PC I'm working on. AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

If I can figure out what I've done wrong I'll have to post them later. Otherwise you'll just have to take my word for it.

The FD Toys I found a little frustrating because I didn't have any photos to use.
Hang on just had a thought. You may not see it in today's post because I'm running out of time, but I might try to figure out which items I could use in FD Toys so I can show the images I produced using the other two image generators today.

Leave it with me folks!!!

P.S. If you haven't already done so check out some of the name generators in Generator Blog, they're an absolute crack up. I had a go at the name generator that works out an elf name for you and frankly I'm keeping mine to myself. Yeah I know that's not fair, but hey at least in Elf Land I'll know who I am.

#7, #8, #9 RSS Feeds

Oops, I blogged about #7 on the 26th of October and got all excited because I thought that I had finished this bit of 2.0 and have just realised that I haven't blogged about #8 and #9.


I've just counted and I have a total of 15 RSS feeds and I can honestly say that six out of the 15 feeds are all library/literature related. I have added some of the library related feeds as suggested and I thought I'd add in an extra, 'The Warrior Librarian'. However when I looked I couldn't see the RSS feed symbol anywhere on the site. If I simply haven't looked properly and someone finds the RSS feed symbol, please feel free to leave a comment. I thought the Warrior librarian would be a good one for some lunchtime stress relief.

#6 Flikr fun, etc

My apologies but I forgot to post about Flickr Fun, etc. I've had a go at it this afternoon and being a bit of a dog fan I found a fun site where you can make up comic strips with photos already posted on the site. So have a look and hopefully a bit of a chuckle.

http://www.pimpampum.net

The url above is what I looked at.

Dog Gallery by Rover T Dog