THE END

At last the end - and I don't even have time to be really detailed! What a pity!!
Most of what I learnt has been blurred by the painful computer stuff that there's no way I learnt and just repeated or wrote down and copied and will probably not use again in the near future - and by the time I do - I won't have a clue. ALl the Http cut and paste stuff to blogs or bloglines etc.
Overwhelmingly I think it is a pity that Australian/Victorian Libraires have to use an American training programme - one that is just SO american that our Blog records that we are doing this in the middle of thenight because we are on American time.
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there whose priority is to sit on the computer and chat in virtual space -it's not my idea of fun - adn I can't see what I can teach my chidlren about learning and living life skills through blogging. Ditto to my clients at the Library on a Saturday morning.
A couple of the exercises were good - like Library Thing - and others would be if you were specifically into it - and had time.

Had a quick flick through the audio Library. I have seen this is action in the prehistoric days (10 years ago) in a Library I worked in where illiterate people came in booking the computer to listen to books

Managed to find a podcast quite easily - wow! Only problem was it then took me 20 mintues to connect the RSS feed to my Bloglines - still not sure it''s even on my blog even though it's in the Bloglines.

Video

Had a look at Youtube - tried to find anything on the Environment - nothing as usual. Tried to find something on Australian parenting - some very weird videos - but a rather cute one about an Australian magpie feeding it's chick. Unfortunetly by the time I'd served a dew customers and got back to it I couldn't find that one again - so had to seetle for the ordinary magpie video.
I guess that experience in itself details just how practical using YouTube as a staff member on a busy Saturday at the Library a couple of weeks out from Christmas really is.

We 2.0 awards

I had a look at the first winner in Music - but Pandora was very very sorry they were down and not accessible to people outside of the US. Not a good start - and more highlighting of my concerns about the whole Americanism of Learning 2.0
I am familiar with Google maps and also Library Thing. Also had a look at Lulu and Biblio under Books - bit concerned about the whole commercial aspect of the whol marketing thing - but Biblio offered a "find an out of print book" search which could be useful.
Pretty unimpressed that the only environmental award that I could see at a glace was third in Philanthopy - seemed to have been awarded because they received that many donations....hopefully I got the wrong impression.....?

Zoho Spreadsheet

Using spreadsheets and other word processing functions (sorry - applications!) that can be accessed by people working from a variety of locations could be very useful.

Had a look and added my blog to the list - not sure what else to say - as it seems all very similar to the Wiki part of this weeks work - so cf. with my comment for that.