End thoughts

There are some very clever tools available on the Internet now. Creating your own maps interests me. Creating my own Favorites using Delicio.us was fun.
As a person who is will probably not share my opinions readily with the Internet multitude, some of the other social sites are less attractive to me.
I am pleased to be able to keep up with the technology in this context. I am contemplating how to incorporate blogging into my computer class teaching.
Balancing out my desire to keep the classes low-intensity, low-jargon, one person-on-one computer in the classroom -- and on the other hand, high-intensity, high-tech, jargon-rich, broadcasting to the faceless multitudes -- there are certainly pluses and minuses on both sides.
Might lead to some interesting philosophical dialogues on the goals of public library computer training programs.
Hopefully yours ...

Suffolk Wave

In my second of two visits to SuffolkWave, I found the same results. Books that I would like to listen to are either not on SuffolkWave at all or are not available. I even tried for some books that are no longer under copyright protection. There was only one copy of the Bible available and it was only the New Testament. The Koran was not found/available. Dorothy Sayers was not available. Neither was Sherlock Holmes. Disappointing.

Podcasts

None of the podcasts I found would play on my pc. Also some of the links on the 23 Things page did not connect: "Not found"

Google Video brings in the family trees

The Birmingham Public Library has created a clever video advertizing their genealogy resources:

Cute video -- like a silent movie, with "Peeps."
I found it through Google Videos.

Goowy Webtop

I signed up for and tested the Goowy Webtop: desktop, email, games. I changed the skin, sent an email, changed my profile. The email is great and you can create mail rules for your email. I'll try more later. Not sure about the games.

Tied out Zoho Writer. Typed part of the Building Safety ... definitions page.
The page kept reformatting itself during periodic backups. It changed the line spacing 3 times to single space between paragraphs. I would change it back and save the file and then it would reformat on the next periodic save. Annoying.

Since you print out from Internet Explorer, it printed the headers and footers from the Internet Explorer settings onto the page printout. Also annoying.

The Spell checker stopped at a misspelled word but did not automatically change the word. Marginally annoying.

I would use this if nothing else was available. But ...

PBWiki

Added some favorites to the PBWiki Sandbox. Woo-hoo.