Web 2.0 Experience

I'm giving myself a pat in the back. You should too!

Before this training, I already have a personal blog, http://eya-familylife.blogspot.com/,

I thought I know everything about blogging.

I Am Wrong!

I learned so much from this training. And the convenience of doing it is amazing.

My favorite discovery was FLICKR. I discovered all the services they do. It's awesome.

If there's another discovery program in the future, sign me in.

Thank you for this amazing journey!

Downloadable Media

Downloading Videos:

When JPL first introduced this service, I think my family is the first ones who tried it.

And we love it. It's great! Just download it and viola! You're watching a movie in your computer.

Too bad they discontinued that service.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I think we can only download audio books now.

Podcast

I chose humor as the topic for my podcast and chose: http://shellyspodcast.com/

YouTube

I made this slideshow when the Friends of the Bradham-Brooks library sponsored a Pre-Mother's Day Breakfast in cooperation with Applebee's.

Discovering Web 2.0 tools

Being a picture person, I selected the category: Photos and Digital Images. I found out Flickr is number 1. So I explored http://www.picnik.com/, which is number 2 on the list. PICNIK is described as; an online photo editor with tons of cool features, you can use Picnik to edit and enhance images on your computer.

Picnik is still in Beta. The site smoothly performs many of the tasks that most users want from a photo editor. When you first visit Picnik, you are faced with four large tabs: Your Photos, Edit, Creative Tools, Save & Share.

The first, allows you to add photos from all sorts of places. You can upload images from your computer, take them from flickr, or take them from any other website.

When you have finished playing–oops, editing–you have numerous options. You can save images on your own computer, send them directly to flickr, or to several other websites, including Costco and Wal*Mart. cool, huh?

I found Picnik to be useful, fun, and easy to use. Try it and see for yourself. I think the library can use this tool for working with pictures . We now have the JPL blog and it sure will be a great help to edit pictures before publishing them in the blog.

Library Poem

I'm just playing here in Zoho and i choose this library poem to play with.   MY LIBRARY by Varda One It's only a room with shelves and books, but it's far more magical than it looks   It's a jet on which I soar to lands that exist no more.   Or a key with which I find answers to questions crowding my mind.   Building my habit of learning and growing, asking and researching till I reach knowing.   Here, I've been a mermaid and an elf I've even learned to be more myself.   I think that I shall never see a place that's been more useful to me.   With encouraging kind friends with wit Who tell me to dream big and never quit.   It's only a room with shelves and books, but it's far more magical than it looks.

 

Zoho Writer's

So today I’m trying out Zoho Writer to see how it works. I haven't used Google docs in the past and I'm so ashamed to say I haven't even heard about it.

I found Zoho really helpful. Before, when it came to crunch time and I needed to get my document edited quickly and reading for print, I went back into Microsoft Word to create the final product. Not to mention, I have to log in to http://www.remote.coj.net/ to get my documents from Word from the reference desk computer.

Just from the looks of it, Zoho Writer seems to be much more robust than Google docs. Some of the features in Zoho Writer that I found I like:
Page Setup
Web publishing
Library of Templates
Tables and Images
Special Characters, subscripts and superscripts
Comments
And more!

JPL Learning 2.0 Sandbox

I had the hardest time logging to the sandbox. Thanks to Eric from San Marco I was able to log-in, finally!
After my "troubled" sign-in, I found the sandbox fun. You can add your input practically anywhere. And at the same time, you can see other people's input.

I noticed when you go to favorites and click on the favorite blog spot, you can't edit and put your comment there, like the rest of the choices.

Here's the link to the sandbox favorites:
http://jaxlearning20.pbwiki.com/Favorite+Blogs

WIKI

What's so great about wikis anyway?

It's obvious:
They are simple, efficient tools for managing knowledge and collaborating. They're particularly convenient in today's busy and international workplace.

With wikis, knowledge doesn't get buried in emails, locked into file systems, hard drives or servers, intranets or extranets, or closed in more specialised data management systems and knowledge management systems.

Wikis are online so users can access, collaborate on, and share content, knowledge and files anytime, anywhere.


Why use a wiki?

A wiki lets you and your teammates collaborate online. It's easy, efficient, and intuitive to use. Every user gets a voice and everyone's contribution is seen, heard, and can be commented upon. In this way wikis improve and democratize communication -- no one misses the 'memo' and anyone can send it. Wikis get information to the right people -- important information (documentation, processes, ideas, communication, etc.) is available to the people who need it, not locked and buried in one person's in-box.