Finito!

Well, this certainly has been an interesting trip. I've tried a lot of new things, some I'd heard of, some I hadn't.

The best thing I've discovered personally on this journey is Flickr. I'm so glad that Learning 2.0 inspired me to take the plunge and join up on some of these sites. I love Flickr, and I love that it has resparked my interest in photography. I've also enjoyed blogging more than I thought I would. I always thought that I never really had a reason to do it. This has shown me that you don't really need to have a reason, a blog can just be for yourself.

I'm also very glad I finally had a good look at the tagging type thingy's. I've seen all those little buttons all over the place, but never really took the time to understand how it worked. I like Del.icio.us, and I'm still using it now, so I can see myself continuing with that.

On a professional level, I think the most important thing I'll take away is the need to play, and keep up with things as they develop. I'll be taking my 15 minutes a day from now on! I don't want to miss out on any great new tools.

I've go no plans to stop blogging now, so I'm keeping this blog open, perhaps I'll post on our progress with using these technologies in our library. I am hoping we will have some to show you!

I'd also like to thank everyone on the Learning 2.0 team. It must have been a massive job, and I've greatly appreciated the opportunity. Thank you!

Downloadable audio

Ok, I've failed step 1 of this exercise. I searched, I clicked, I got a password screen. So, I've gotten kind of bogged on this one. Needless to say I've found these pages bit difficult to navigate. I went to the Gutenberg page, but I ended up with text files, not audio.

In the past I've used a site called Librivox, which I found pretty easy to use.

So if you're a bit thick like me, maybe you could try that.

Podcasts

I'm used to using iTunes, which I really like, but it does have one drawback in comparison to the other search options I looked at which were Podcastalley and Podcast.net. That is, that the search results are displayed by episode, rather than by podcast program, but on the plus side its easy to browse by genres, so it's good if you're not really looking for anything in particular. The other two displayed lists of programs, but I found the searching a bit hit and miss. Podcast.net found 9 results for "libraries" and podcast alley found 29.

There would certainly be uses for this technology in libraries, like this one which I heard about at the Spun Conference I attended last week, from Coffs Harbour City Library

Voice Of Time Project

Like all of these things, its a matter of having useful product to offer.