The End!

To be honest, I'm really glad it's over. At times it had been extremely frustrating and time consuming (especially any exercise that used RSS feeds) but I had a lot of help from trusted staff (that's the only way I was able to finish some of the assignments). But now that it's all behind me, I can safely look back and say that it was a very good experience.

I can now interact with younger friends, family, colleagues and customers and kinda, sorta, maybe know what they're talking about. In fact, all during the Presidental campaign and especially election night, I heard words thrown about that we had learned through "Learn & Play" (blogs, podcasts, tweets, etc.). I want to give a big THANK YOU to CML for encouraging me to join the 21 century and for making it fun!

MOLDI Mold

I reaaaaaaaaly wish they would change the name MOLDI to something else!!!
That said, I bought an MP3 player just so I could download titles from MOLDI (and soon it's going to be compatible with iPods). It's really easy to use and I now have quick access to many audiobooks (fiction and non-fiction) that I can listen to while I'm walking.

PodCasts

I had no difficulty finding an interesting podcast. I choose one on stress because I was so stressed out trying to add the RSS feed to my bloglines, but with the help of my trusted colleague, I finally was successful.

L'Appuntamento by Ornela Vanoni

Actually, it's not the video I love so much as the accompanying song. A few weeks ago I was searching for L'Appuntamento by Ornela Vanoni (theme song to the movie Ocean's 12) and happened to find it playing on YouTube. So now whenever I want to listen to the song, I just pull it up on YouTube (and I get to watch a great video).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-lKSD8t8E

Bookburroinnnnng

Bookburro is really neat. I love the fact that it opens up a list of libraries, book stores and online services, and gives information about pricing and availability about any book without leaving the webpage. Now, how cool is that!

Go2Web20

I went straight to the Travel category and to Farecast, the winner in that category. Since I was just in Madrid this summer, I played around with flights to Spain. It combined many of the popular and not-so-popular travel sites and really did offer lowest pricing. I especially liked that they explain why these are great airfare deals based on science, not marketing, and give you an idea when would be the best time to buy your ticket.
Again, I'm going to check this site for my personal use, but other than showing patrons how to access the site, I don't think I'll be using it much in the library.

Dr. Google

I think Google Docs would be really great for my own personal use. I love being able to access a word-type document from anywhere and not have to use a flash/disk/CD and, yes, I can see Google Docs seriously hurting (maybe not killing) Microsoft Office. But, I honestly can't see how we would use it in the library except to help patrons.