Twitter

I listen to KRMG every morning, and Joe Kelley mentions what they are tweeting almost every day. But I have never bothered to follow them on Twitter. I created my Twitter account last year, but never posted anything until this morning. I think Twitter is great for networking.

Audio books

I use audiobooks a lot. It’s so awesome that OverDrive has audiobooks, music, and video for us to download. I wish we could have more titles available. I've downloaded A good woman by Danielle Steel.

I wish I could download the OverDrive on my work computer.

Podcasts

I had never taken the time or interest in exploring or subscribing to any podcasts prior to this exercise. My son has lots of music in his MP3 player and then iphone, but I’ve never even bothered to ask him how and where he got all the songs.

I’ve checked out all the four podcast directories, downloaded iTunes, and subscribed to Games in libraries by Scott Nicholson. I also subscribed to Book Talk on npr.org.

TCCL can definitely use podcasts on the homepage to publicize all the interviews, programs and events.

YouTube



I am a visual person. Maps always help me better than verbal directions. After watching this clip, I think I might have the guts to change my flat tire some day. I like the features available on YouTube such as rating, duration, time posted, number of viewing, and esp. closed caption. The only downside is that you have to watch some commercials, but it's reasonable considering the fact that everything is free.

TCCL may use online video to show users how to use some online databases or self-checkout machines.

Discovering Web 2.0 tools

I finally set up an account in Twitter. The thing I did not like about Twitter is that I had to disclose my password for my email. So I had to switch from my primary yahoo address to the secondary gmail one. Of course I forgot about the password, and to retrieve it I had to type the letters in the distorted picture five times for Google to confirm I was a human being instead of a dog, or fake or something. Thank goodness, I only got 5 friends to invite to Twitter rather than 50 if I gave out my yahoo email.

Then I could not access my blogger account this morning although I had no problem yesterday with the same username & password. So I had to reset a new password for it.

Web-based applications

Since I don't have Publisher on my home computer, I find Google Docs extremely helpful. I like the feature that you can invite people to view or edit your files. I sure wish that more templates would be available in the future.

PBWiki

I felt more comfortable posting in TCCL wiki than in Wikipedia simply because the former is my pond while the latter is the vast ocean.