#19 (Week 8). Discovering Web 2.0 tools

In fact I have not visited individual sites to make my judgement on who was better than the other...In actual fact, there has to be a winner somewhere ...but for me they all are ...It is like every individual has their own talent...so every site has their own features...it may have something more and less than the other..Don't you agree :))<

#18 (Week 8). Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.

Zoho Writer the word processor designed outstands the word and microsoft word. It is for the upcoming generation.It is built using another NEW Techology known as Ajax. It has so many formatting options, and also u can use the same keyboard shortcuts as with any other word processing application for accessing these functions. A time saver, it has a very friendly tool bar and the functions are just a click away...:(There's so much to it, that if I continue writing it will take a whole day ...so why not just get in there and see for your self...take mah word...u'll benefit from all its features ooops now I am angry just like this face....I tried so many times to publish my zoho article via publish options provided....but yeah it DID NOT work 4 me @ all ...ggggrrrrr how annoying!!!!

#17 (Week 7) Playing around with PBWiki

There!! I have added an entry to the favourite blogs page...since we are all in the learning pace "apologies to those who are whizz in this field...am talking about some of us"..The video clip was very helpful and yeah once I had finished my tour It didnot look that difficult.I wont stop here..I will go to checkout more every now and than ...ie..after I finish this blog and receive my MP3. I am so thankful to ACL 2.0 .This whole thing has taken me so far. :)))

#16(Week 7) Wikis

Wiki...mmmm...I would define it as an extra friendly encyclopedia, It is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. There is always a good and a bad side to such options...Lets look @ da Goody bit...
Simple syntax
Anyone can make changes
Free and open source options
Flexible and extensible And the Baddy bit is
Disorganized,Too open
Not enough control
Vandalism and spam Other uses of Wiki's are Conference planning, Collaborative editing of documents,Meetings (posting agendas, discussion prior to meeting, etc.) Project space, there's more to it ...but less space for me ;))
Very useful for creating online communities ,particularly for libraries...with different groups of patron...it is kinda one stop shop for all age groups be it schools, social groups and many more, from which we can learn and share @ da same time. but yeah with caution as all information may not be so called "Correct".....the best part is that we can just go and correct it ...we donot need HTML. For us libraries,a very good communication tool.

#15 (Week 6) OnlLibrary 2.0 & WEB 2.0...

Library 2.0 is future for our libraries, but its not an overnight thing, it will surely take another generation to cope up with the pace of current and incoming technology . After enrolling with this course and actually working on the exercises made me realise how behind we are with the new tech .

#14(Week 6) Getting not so Technical with TECHNORATI

This is tough, too many choices, blogs, news, videos and on it goes...there are so many ways to search so many things, that my mind is zooming in and out of no where...i did a web 2.0 search and ended up with these many reasults 113,344 results for web 2.0,ooops yeah i didnot tag with any "tag" or "key word" in simple english...but I am pretty sure if we do, it will narrow down the search..it is helpful but than the whole game of TECHNORATI I would say is on tagging...you do it right you get it right....but nah not my cup of tea:-(

#13(Week 6) Tagging..bk mrkng in Del.icio.us

del.icio.us...it does sound very tempting aye yeah "DELICIOUS"..prior to this ACL 2.0 learning programme I would have thought it has something to do with taste or food.but nah its nothing like that but yeah you can tag yah yummy recipes as it says "Cookbook - Whenever you find a great recipe on a website, save it to del.icio.us. Tag it with the recipe's ingredients or style of cooking, and then when you're wondering what to make for dinner, you can use your saved bookmarks to help you remember the perfect recipe".for eg..if I had to cook a chicken dish I would tag it with chicken and it will bring up all chicken dishes I had chosen and put on del.icio.us...but than again this site is everyone's favourite ...someone some where has already done the work of finding...so we just contribute and share I would say

#12 (Week 5) Rollyo

Select...Celebrity GossipcookingSearch The Web

Having so many features the RollBar lets you search whatever site you're on, or use any one of yah searchrolls from anywhere. we can also add sites to existing Searchrolls, and create new ones on the fly...but to be able to do this or say able to have yah own searchbar was,mmmm.....I would say, I found it a bit difficult...I spent an hour and was on the final steps when it came up with the ERROR message saying that "opening tag doesnot match yah closing tag" yeah yeah!! so I deleted the whole stuff and went home...now its all done ...and yeah my friend was there again to rescue me from this...finally S U C C E S S Fullll:))

# 11 (Week 5) Library Thing

Ohhh!!! wowow! managed to get these done today ;). I liked the Library thing. I have added a couple of my favourite childhood reads .This site can be excessed from anywhere even while travelling...yeah via yah cell phone..cool aye. Anyways now my fellow bloggers and people out there who will visit my catalogue will surely know what Fruity was upto when she(sshh! dats me;) ) was in Primary school. I pretended to be da character :)) yah I really did!!!...Wanna know what I was upto...visit this site...

http://www.librarything.com/addbooks.php

I love this series and can still read a hundered more times :))

Fruity Image

image generation was a new experience for me and i was so fascinated to see the various ways to beautify ur name or wateva message u wanna convey to the bloggers out there. "hey isnt it wonderful 2 c ur name glitter 24/7?" i went on a number of sites but i found dis site intriguing.
http://www.glittertextgraphics.com/CHEK IT OWT

Wk 4 Excercise 9 Library related blogs

http://pewforum.org/

http://feeds.wired.com/wired/topheadlines

http://www.sciam.com/section/id/news

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/animals.html

http://www.variety.com/

So these are the Reader Feeds that I have added to Bloglines. My colleague helped me earlier and with this also. I infact was looking for somehting library related but you know as i said TIME starts to catch up wid me...so I am going to give another try ..lets see if I become succesful dis time .

http://www.lib.usm.edu/about_us/library_rss_feeds/current_library_news_rss.html

aha!! here I am ...oh yeah I've done it :))...hope it's correct ;)

Excercise 6,7& 8

I have checked out mashups and have also commented on RSS feeds.

The technology bit I learnt during ACL 2.0 is RSS. Personally I would add RSS feeds of the websites which I visit everyday for eg. NZ herald, Fiji Times. By adding RSS feeds to my blog I can read all the news of my interest at one place rather than visiting individual websites