Thing #6: More Flickr Fun

I played around with Montage. I did one with roses and with my first initial M, but I could not download this on my post. I will keep trying. This is a fun tool.

Thing #16: Playing around with wikis

I set up my account and added my favorite book and movies. This was fun. I will add more of my favorites to this.

Thing #13: Tagging

In exercise 13 we learned about tagging. I wasn't sold on this at first, because I question how valid the information might be on the subjects being tagged. I do see the benefits of tagging, after viewing the video. This can be a very helpful tool. I do intend to explore this more.

Thing #22: Digital Media

This exercise was to discover MOLDI. This is digital media downloads available through CML. I took a look at the book titles, music titles and movie title available for download. I will go back and try to download each type of media. This was a good exercise for me ,to become familiar with downloading from the CML homepage. It will make it easier to explain downloads to our patrons.

Thing #23: Is This really the End??

Learn and Play was a great learning tool for me. Each exercise taught me something new. My favorite Exercise was #20, using You Tube. Several exercises introduced me to tools I can use on my job, and also for personal use. I'm looking forward to using Google.doc. I can't think of anything at the moment CML can do to improve this. These tools opened a wide variety of sources to me. I will participate in the next CML discovery program. Thank you for the experience.

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Thing #21: Podcasts

I looked at three Podcast directories, Podfeed.net, Podcastalley.com and Google Podcast Directory. I like Podfeed.net. It list subjects you can take a look at to find what you're interested in. I checked out the music podcast, which is something I would be interested in. I found a several podcast for libraries. Podcast could be used in a variety of ways for the library. I work in AV so I found a Classic Films Podcast. www.podfeed.net/tags/classic%20films. Maybe we could do something like this with our Foreign Films list. I definitely think this is something CML should explore.

Thing #19 Explore CML's own Tool Box

Explored CML's tool Box. What a great tool. I knew a little bit about Firefox. I heard it was a alternative to using Google for searching. GMail sound great. I might look into this further. I like the idea of putting CML's tool box on my computer Too.