Fini! I found this to be a very enjoyable and enlightening experience and I am grateful to HCL for the opportunity to be exposed to so many new uses of technology and to have the work time to do it. Although there are certainly some aspects of it that I will not embrace, I am happy to know that they are out there and the basics of how they operate. The "things" I will certainly go further with are RSS feeds, LibraryThing, audiobooks and maybe podcasts. I will give this experience an A+ and would welcome the opportunity to do more. It might be desirable to do this in teams with a more knowledgeable person on each team to make it go more quickly.
Sorry to say, that as my knowledge expanded, so did my waistline. Every time I sat at my computer facing a new challenge, I did so with a Diet Coke and a Snickers at my side. Oh, well - small price to pay!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Thing 22: Audiobooks
Audiobooks, now here is something to which I can relate. I have long been a fan of books-on-tape or CD and now I can have even more choices with downloadable books. Because we are no longer subscribing to NetLibrary, I did not bother with that and because there were not many titles of interest to me on Project Gutenburg, I only looked at that for a minute or two. But, I saw many titles on interest on Overdrive which I plan to "reserve" and download to my new (thanks to the library) MP3 player. I still have more to learn about the downloading process, but I am on my way.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Thing 21: Podcasts
After exploring both Podcast.net and Podcast Alley, I had a preference for Podcast.net because of the ease of searching. The categories are similar to Yahoo.com categories Business, Entertainment, etc. I started with the Learning and Instruction category and listened to Unbellavista. How to Tour Italy. It was a relatively short podcast and was informative. However, I'm not sure I will be a frequent listener - too little time to sit at the computer listening.
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