Thing 23

• Did you have fun?
  Yes - I had a lot of fun. I learned several new things.
  
• Did you find tools that you could use at work?
  Yes - there are several things that I think could have useful applications in the library.
  
• Did you find tools that you could use personally?
  Yep - some things i've already adopted - others I think I might adopt in the future.
  
• Did you enjoy working with your buddy?
  I didn't really have a buddy. I was pretty much on my own b/c I didn't keep up with the weekly schedule.
  
• Are you ready for another Learning 2.0 experince?
  Definitely!
  
• How could we have made this experience better?
  I liked it and really don't have any complaints. Several of the things I already knew about, but I learned new things as well. I liked that I was able to do it at my own pace b/c my schedule can be crazy.
  

Thanks to the committee for all of your hard work on this. Job well done!

Thing 22

Okay - I must say this one is an easy one for me as well. I've been listening and viewing podcasts via iTunes for awhile. folks at my previous institution introduced me to them and i started out by listening to Car Talk but i've since started to explore them for a variety of topics. Again - good PR and educational applications that lots of institutions are taking advantage of. I've never created a podcast - but from what i understand they are fairly easy to do.

Thing 21

Oh YouTube - what can I say - it's a whole lotta fun. There's a lot on there and you can punch in the craziest thing and find videos. Many librarians have made their own YouTube videos and it makes sense b/c there are a lot of PR and educational opportunities with YouTube.

Thing 20

Google Maps Satellite View of TCU

I love Google Maps. I have spent many hours on different occasions messing with Google Maps - I love the Street View. I've looked at houses/blocks, etc. using the street view. If a friend moves to a new house - I look at the Google street-view. Yes, it might be a little stalker-ish - but it's cheaper than a plane ticket to go see the house.

I've also played with Google Earth some as well. I love the fact that i can go to areas that I don't have street address for and "wander" around. I didn't realize that the purple buildings had additional info (maybe that's new since I played around with it??). Very neat and a great tool for teaching - esp. at an elementary level.

Thing 19

Wow - I've known about this for a little while, but never looked at it. It sure would've made my life easier on numerous occasions. We easily could have used it for the Assessment Committee Report on seating and I could have also used it with the MLA program review group.

Thanks for getting me to try it out. I'm going to introduce my husband to it as well.

Thing 18

Wow - posting and making links in PBWiki is a lot easier than the wiki i've used in the past. Much improved from my previous experience!

Another day of Catch-up

Okay - i'm getting ready to move and go to TALL Texans - so as of tomorrow i'll be out for almost 2.5 weeks. I figure i've got some time this afternoon, so i'll try to finish up all of the Things. Thing 17 was easy. I've explored the various wikis and have used wikis at a previous institution. I had a love/hate relationship with my wiki - but have come around to them. My biggest issue with them i think was that i didn't have any training on how to use it and the text editor wasn't very good. i didn't know the wiki code that well and found it frustrating that i couldn't just cut and past MSWord docs. In retrospect I see that the benefits outweigh the negatives.

Oh and the task of typing in a noun and wikipedia being in the first 6 hits on Google - amazing! Has anyone ever beat it? I typed in some weired words and there wikipedia was in the first 6 every time.