Summary

Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? It was a lot more time consuming than I expected. I was amazed at how many cool tools are available, some of which we could be using, and many of these are free.

What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? This program was a big bite at one time. I’d like to see is broken down in to smaller parts. Perhaps more people would be willing to commit to several short programs. Maybe Cindy could do a “new learning 2.0 tool” of the month program.

If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you again chose to participate? Definitely, YES!!

Learning 2.0 experience

First, blog about your Learning 2.0 experience. Tell me...What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
In my opinion, the most fun was the image generator and the most useful was the RSS feeds.

How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
The program was a great opportunity to learn about new tools and cool things on the internet. I will continue to use some of them to make my life easier; others I’m glad to know what they are and how they work.

I enjoyed reading other staff member’s blogs.

Rollyo

Wow, one can create their own searchroll. I can see lots of potential for this tool, especially for students and reference librarians. Another cool idea.

LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a good little FREE tool. It is designed for small collections (200 titles for free then they start charging). I like its simplicity, but missed having authority control. It was very interesting to check the tags that other have used for my books. I searched for music titles and did not find any CDs or scores. They could be added manually but that takes away the ease and fun of the program. I enjoyed the social aspects of the site. This is an interesting idea that I would like to investigate further.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/yoyody

Hair photo warholized

Image generators

I played with several of these. The hairmixer really got me laughing. You can see my favorite new do. Then I warholize it. These programs are just too much fun.

Here is the link: http://www.hairmixer.com/

Podcast and video in the library

I looked at the recommended sites: Denver PL, ASU, and others, and think they have some good ideas. For instance we could do a podcast to go along with information about the artist exhibits at Central.

Also I liked the storytime idea at Denver Public. I wonder if we could they put in page turn beeps so the kids could read along? Or maybe make it a captioned video. Are there copyright issues with doing this sort of programming?

This format lends itself to self directed learning; workshops for the public as well as the staff. We have already done one on self serve check out. I can think of many more topics we could teach.

These are great tools. I know we will find lots of library uses for them as soon as we have enough bandwidth so people don’t get discouraged.