#23 End or beginning

I enjoyed participating in the Learning 2.0 program although sometimes I had hard time. This program keeps us on track to learn new stuff out there. Otherwise I never would have done all the exploring on my own. The Web 2.0 tools that I will probably use again are blogs, wikis, Flickr, YouTube, online word processing/spreadsheets/calendars. It's nice to get permission to use work time to learn fun things. I'd do it again. I'd take web 2.1 next summer.

#22 Face to Face Space: Social Networking Communities

I have to see 'My space" and "Face book' are good ways to find info about your friends or whoevery you want to find. Many parents use it to check on their childrens' friends or roommates. The bad side is: you have to give up your personal info to get other people's info. Also it takes lots of time to update your page.

#21 Podcasts, shmodcasts!

Podcasts are useful, sometimes are convinient. For example: you can start a audio book from podcast at your kid's bedtime, so it can free you to do something else. Another example is: at office break time you can start a yoga or meditation session to relax yourself so you can be recharged and energitic to finish rest of your day.

#20 YouTube

I selected 'Li Yundi playing "La Campanella"'video and placed it inside my blog. I like this video because I like classic music. Li Yundi is one of the finest pianists in the world. He plays piano beautifully. I think YouTube can be used as an educational tool. For example: If I play piano I can record the piece I am working on and put it on YouTube. Then I search for the title of the piece, it will come up all kinds piano players who is playing this same piece. So I can listen and watch their playing and learn from them.

Li Yundi playing "La Campanella"

#19 Discovering web 2.0 awards

It was amazing to found out that there are so many web 2.0 tools out there for us to use. I checked the winner list and choose the real estate "Zillow". I found it out if you input an address it will come up the value of the house you inputted and the value of the neighbour houses. It is good information if you want to buy or sell a house in that area or neighborhood. But too bad Athens is not listed.

I also checked category Travel with "Farecast". It comes up with cheapest tickets for you to choose. This way just with one search I can find out the prices with different airlines and make comparison.

I didn't have time to explore more from the winning list. I am sure there are many great tools that can be use for library setting.

#18 Web-based apps

I explored "Google docs & spreadsheets" and created my own account. Then I created one doc and one spreadsheet. I invited collaborator and viewer to share my docs. I think Google.docs & spreadsheets is very useful tool for several people discuss and share their thoughts on same topic or same article.