My Learning Experience...

I loved learning about wikis and zoho. I think I will be using youtube more for fun flaky vids to put in my blogs. There are a lot of cool things on there. I have learned about things I was interested in but never had the time to discover like flickr and RSS feeds. I'm going to try subscribing to a podcast to learn Japanese. That should be fun.

I was actually surprised by how much fun I had completing this program. I would love to do something like this again. It was a lot of fun to play and discover new applications on the web. Even if I don't use them myself, I can now teach others about the opportunities of web apps!

Audio Books

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost

At age twenty-six, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to a remote South Pacific island. The idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.
This book tells the hilarious story of what happens when he discovers that the island is not the paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles with stifling heat, deadly bacteria, and polluted seas in a country where the only music to be heard is "La Macarena." He and his girlfriend, Sylvia, contend with incompetent officials, alarmingly large critters, a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis), and bizarre local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the so-called Poet Laureate of Tarawa, a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life.

This book sounds SO funny. It is presented in a rather dry style with an British narrator. I can't WAIT to listen to the whole thing. *fan-girl squee* Also, I here tell that you can now use your iPod for these audio books. I'll be trying that out later, too.

Podcasts

I had a difficult time trying to find a podcast that would work and that wasn't annoying. Unfortunately, some of these podcasts remind me of talk radio, which I can't stand. This one looks interesting http://www.japanesepod101.com/feed.xml but it wouldn't work on the work computer where I'm doing this so I'll have to check it out later.

I'm also going to have to retry bloglines when I get home. Our computers weren't loading the page today. :(

For some reason the computers are also freezing when patrons try to get on myspace. I don't know what's up with myspace this week, but I sure am tired of logging back into the computers 20 times a day. *sigh*

You Tube

YouTube is easy to navigate and search. The advanced search even gives you an option to search by duration of video. Neato. Just this Sunday one of my coworkers found a hula video she wanted to show in her storytime to teach the kids a hula dance. It was a great video, unfortunately, she was out sick for the program. D: But it would've been awesome. ;)


I chose this video because it has a sort of library-esque theme (what with dancing books and all) and I absolutely LOVE stop animation.








In fact, some of my peers may remember the Mtv stop motion intros they used to have in the 90s. One of my favorite performers, Voltaire, made them. :O I never knew that until like, last year. Who would've thought that an artist I discovered in high school created some of the cool and interesting things from my childhood. Weee. Oh btw, he's also very handsome. Icing on the cake and all. :D