final thoughts.......

Well I have to say that I'm kinda sad that this little exercise is coming to end. It wasn't nearly as painful as I had thought it would be. I have some fond memories of discovering new goofy things that are out on the web. I am finally a blogger, I really thought that I would never find a need for blogging, but after discovering Tumblr, I can say that i have found a new way of blogging that works for me. I feel so much more tech savvy than I was before. I feel like I have much better grasp of what kind of interactive sharing tools are available how they can actually be useful to me in my everyday life.
I had a situation the other day where I had forgotten the text to a story I'm trying to illustrate with my sister. I remembered though that she had placed it on Google docs! I was able to go online where I was at and pull up a copy of the text and stay productive that day! It was awesome! I'm definitely going to try and keep up with all the new technologies.
I'm also a big fan of Bloglines. It is great not having to to go and check ten different websites to see if there is any new info posted, or whether my favorite blogs have any new info. Thats another thing, I never even looked at blogs before web 2.0 and now there a few that I have to checkout each day because they are so cool and informative.
Thanks to all of you who gave me the opportunity to check out all this cool random stuff!

Tumblering, timbling, down

I really think that this tumblr is a way wicked cool fast way of doing a blog. Instead of having to go through all the trouble of having complex blog , or a separate connection with tags like delicious, you can do it all quick and dirty with tumblr. I don't know what other people plan on doing with tumblr, but I plan on using it to post art that I do, just sketches or maybe a week by week page from my childrens book that my sister and I are working on. What is also cool is the ability to see some cool photo and add it quick and easy to your tumblr where you'll be able to find it later. I really like it for art, as you can see. I can also see it used for posting quick little installments of a story or an easy or two.

internet video killed the radio and the tv star

So I ran around looking at all the sites. While many of them are very fine and dandy, I would say that YouTube is still boss. I mean literally you can find anything on that crazy site. What I ended finding that was something I hadn't thought about looking at before were the how to videos. There is a guy on there that does quite a few videos on how to watercolor and the many techniques involved. So basically a Bob Ross video on watercoloring, but at my own speed and for free. How cool is that?! I could easily see those do it yourself and learning tools being applied to our library website. Wouldn't it be great if we even had more videos about how to use the library and the tools within the library. For example, show some videos of how best to look up items using the catalog, or show a video on how to use the microfilm machine. Or even better you could have information videos about art like what I found, or how to build a fence, cement a walk, whatever. You could just keep adding to it all the time.