The End

Well finally made it to thend. It has been a good experience. I enjoyed some parts more than others. My favourites were definitely iGoogle, Youtube and the social networking sites. It's a real shame that so many of the web2.0 products are not allowed on ouir intranet. Thanks YPRL

Week 10 YouTube

Another go at embedding a video from youtube.
Tutankhamun's Tomb



Yes it worked! well I think this feature is great. I think youtube is a great resource and has lots of educational possibilities. Its a pity its blocked on our hospital network as there are many educational videos that could be used.

Week 11: E-books and Audiobooks

Yay the last activity! started looking around the world ebook fair and searched for some books, however everytime I clicked on a link I got asked for an ID and password. Not again, does this website need joining up? Discovered that it's not free as I thought but you need to pay $8.95 so I went to the project gutenburg site and had a look at a few ancient egyptian tiles. Found a couple of nice old ones that have nice plates/pictures of egypt 100-150 years ago. Also listened to the audio version of an egyptian book. I think it's great to have access to electronic booksespecially for studying. very useful to be able to read parts of chapters etc. Also the audiobooks are a blessing for the vision impaired. However apart from reading the odd chapter or listening to snippets of audio, I still prefer my books in print.

Egyptian Symbols

Egyptian Symbols

Week 10: Podcasts and Vidoes

PODCASTS: I have listened to podcasts in the past in regard to library training. And have also received the odd email with podcast files. Today I found a podcast on ancient egypt. After listening to it I added the rss feed for Archeorama podcast to my googlereader page. The only thing I didn't like is that once again you need to subscribe. However after exploring i discovered that if i add the rss link to googlereader i can listen without subscribing to a podcast service, so I also added a hip hop music rss feed. Cool stuff.

YOUTUBE: I have used YouTube for watching music videos. Fantastic. also have watched some TV episodes. Watched a couple of library videos - very funny. Haven't worked out how to embed a video yet. will try a bit later

Week 9 Rollyo

Thought I'd have rollyo done earlier but have been away for over a week. Have had a look at lots of different rollyos on my two favourite topics of ancient egypt and hip hop music. Interesting to see results limited to certain websites, but even so for some searches I still got thousands of results. Not another login!!! The one thing that I am over is having to login to so many of these services.
I tried importing some of my favourite bookmarks but having a little trouble getting it to work. I followed the instructions but when finished I got a blank page that said done. Not sure if I like this site. I can see that people might find it useful to search a few particular websites, however I manage OK with the websites I have bookmarked and also as they tend to require specialised search techniques I think that in my case its not so necessary. For more general purposes it would be good such as school kids doing homework on particular projects etc.