Summary

At first I was somewhat intimidated by this experience. I learned about a lot of new things such and Shelfari and Google Docs. I had some trouble with the image generator but Laura, my co-worker helped me on that thing. Having to create and remember passwords for all the sites was a little annoying but I continued in order to complete the assignments. I'm glad CML offered this opportunity and I'll probably explore several of the sites in the coming months.

MOLDI

I browsed some of the titles and have downloaded a couple books from home. I know customers will be pleased to learn they can download books to their ipods. I think this may be another option for when students may need a particular title right now and all available copies are checked out or they are unwilling to go to another branch to pick up an available copy.

Podcasts

Most of the ones I explored were for entertainment purposes. However, I know they are useful in professional environments. Conferences use them to share to a wider audience what was presented at a meeting. It's another collabrative tool I see useful but some sites could be overused and time wasters.

Web 2.0 Tool Box

I didn't realize all these things were here. I'll definitely use it at home. I'll have to explore more when I have time.

YouTube

I explored a couple sites. My daughter has used YouTube to watch some interesting videos. I watched a person make cheddar cheese biscuits from Kraft.
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Web 2.0 tools

Well, I guess you can find just about everything in a virtual world. I explored Craiglist, Googlemaps, Delicious, and a couple job sites. It's interesting but it still takes time to look and various sites.

GoogleDocs

At first this was somewhat confusing to me. I can see how I could use this personally and could see its advantages in the workplace. Since at CML we have many working groups and collaborations among staff regarding SRC, policies, procedures, and best practices among other things, I see this type of sharing of documents really is more efficient and practical.