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Thing # 23 Is this really the end or ..............

I enjoyed the whole learning process. It was both fun and rewarding. I actually looked forward to getting back to each "thing" every morning.

I have always considered myself a life long learner. I've never set any goals in this area, its just part of my character. I probably got it from my 94 year old father who still loves a good learning challenge.

I will look forward to your next learning experience for me but I hope it does not wait until web 3.0 arrives completely. I'm sure it has already started. Also I'm hoping you leave this exercise up for those who have not found it yet.

Suggestion for future material. Maybe you could offer them in smaller bites? Of course I did all 23 "Things" in about 10 days since I did not learn about it until this month while reading the printed version of NLCommunicator.

As I said in my blog, the one area I'm particularly interested in is Wiki's. Another "thing" I see as very useful to me is podcasting. Lots of potential there.

I thank you for bringing Nebraska Learns 2.0 to us here in the Great State of Nebraska.

Steve

Thing # 22 Podcasting

Boy are there a ton of them out there. Most of the ones I look at did not interest me. But that does not say I won't run across some of interest in the future.

I have been listening to StoryCorps.net for the past year. It is a super project. I became so interested in it I played some of the stories to the library advisory board and library director. The director like them too so I suggested we could do our own oral history recordings and also take some excerpts and put them as podcast on the library web site. Well it is in the process of happening.

One of the local banks donated 7 office cubicle panels we are going to use in our meeting room. Four panels will be used to a create space for the kids story hour and three for a recording studio to do our oral history recordings. From the recordings, with the person's consent, we will post excerpts for them and create our own story podcasts.

We will use the free down load software Audacity to make the recordings then export the file as an MP3 file.

If you are interested in the storycorps project here is the link to its home page:
http://www.storycorps.net/
Steve

Thing # 21 Youtube.com

I've actually been using Youtube for quite some time. I have a virtual domain under my domain for a friend who is an artist and does paintings of fallen NE soldiers. A year or so ago a Omaha TV station did a news story on him and his project. I contacted the station and they gave me permission to use the video and sent me a copy. I uploaded it to Youtube then embedded it on one of Dick's pages on my site.

I also have a couple more videos on Youtube, one a comic life training video and the other about life on a train.

Here is Dick's web site of paintings: http://www.mccookdirect.com/budig/budig-pics.htm

He is the Dick Budig video.

Thing #20 Discovering Web 2.0 Tools

I am truly amazed at the number of tools there are out there and most of them for free. I joined "Myheitage, Linkin and Pandora". I also used Google Maps to create a picture trail up the north inlet near Grand Lake, CO. There are so many sites out there I could not look at a fraction of them.

I plan on enjoying Pandora radio music this summer when I'm at the cottage in Grand Lake without a TV or radio but with Qwest DSL.

I also started putting in my family's family tree in Myheritage.

I joined Linkin and started looking for business acquaintences who are already Linkin members.

It's almost mind boggling the number of potential web 2.0 sites out there that could leand to great discoveries.

I hope others are enjoying this exercise as much as I am.
Steve

Thing #19 Online Applications like Google Word

I actually went in and created both a doc and spreadsheet in Google. It was easy to do and I discovered you can copy/paste documents you created in MS Word and Excel into google documents. I tried to share them with myself but google was have technical problems and I failed.
I also tied to do a presentation but that did not work either. Maybe next time.
I can see me using this feature of Web 2.0 particularly the spreadsheet. If I have them out on the web I can access them from almost anywhere.
Steve

Thing #18 Playing around with BPwiki

Fun and I can see how it would be used to keep in touch with others. Form my personal use I doubt I would use any of the featured ones on the Favorite ones. I did join the group and add my edit comment about my favorite vacation spot. Here is the location of my comment: http://nebraskalearns.pbwiki.com/Favorite%20Vacation%20Spots#comment1232040252=undefined&view=page
under my name Lakeverna.