Week Iwa - Part 2 Podcasts

Last Lesson

Podcasts were a fun lesson. The topic range varied considerably. I visited both sites listed. I definitely preferred the graphics of podcast.com but the selection and categories were better in podcastalley.com.
It is a great way of sharing information especially random radios by unknown with views to express. I listened to a variety of reviews on Harry Potter, one in particular from the Harry Potter Fan Fiction site. It was interesting because it was many persons reviews mixed.
Not sure if I will be using it… it is actually like YouTube for audio? Also added the RSS feed to my bloglines account.

Week Iwa - YouTube

YouTube is really quite old. I haven't heard of alot of things when it has come to this Learning 2.0 but YouTube I definatley have. I have seen lots of different clips including music, the k1 fighting, stupid clips of people hurting themselves like "jackass", new movie trailers and recently they have come across a situation because people have been putting TV shows on there and they aren't very happy because it is taking away possible profits for the network. I can't really choose a favourite video but I really like the music clips and it is cool because you can load the clips from YouTube straight onto your bebo page so it is saved for you on there for whenever you want to watch it. Thinking about it one of my favourites is the little girl Bianca who won Americas got talent man can that girl sing! and she's only about 11 i think, she is really going places. Oh and the little boy whos like 5 and raps all the lyrics to LiL BowWow's song on stage in a suit how CUTE!

Week Waru - Part 2 Web 2.0

Well for the Web 2.0 sites, I went straight for the award winners and the one that caught my eye was Cocktail Builder which was awarded 1st place for fun stuff. I agree with that it does look like a very good site for cocktail connoisseurs even though Im not one at the moment but it does give some good ideas of some cocktails that are possible to make and help you look the part. You can even type in what spirits you already have and they give you a list of what you can make or the extra mixers or spirits you need to complete the cocktail or shot. The website isn't the most eye catching but they are looking for a web designer and it has the bare necessities and still made it to number 1 without it so just imagine after it has been given a total make over.

You can even stock up your collection of bar supplies such as shakers, different types of glasses etc. You can put up your own cocktail suggestions to share with others. And the BEST thing they offer is that you can type in what you have in your bar and a menu comes up with all the drinks your guests can choose from so you just print that out and your an instant bartender!

I've also obviously been through Del.icio.us which is rated 1st in the bookmarking category and I've signed up to that and have made myself an account.

I had a little play and put in some random ingredients and this is my outcome:

Ingredients:

Absolut vodka Baileys Irish Cream Midori melon liqueur

Kahlua coffee liqueur Alize cognac Malibu

Orange juice Peach Schnapps Sprite

Ice Milk Coffee

Cocktails and shots

baby guinness	3 ingredients
1 1/2 oz of kahlua coffee liqueur baileys irish cream ice fill a shot glass with kahlua near the top of the glass and top with bailey's.
black russian	2 ingredients
1 1/2 oz of vodka 1 oz of coffee liqueur stir with ice and serve either straight up or on the rocks.
blow job	2 ingredients
1/2 shot of kahlua coffee liqueur 1/2 shot of irish cream serve as a shooter topped with whipped cream. remember, patrons can enjoy this drink but they cannot use their hands!
kahlua martini 4 ingredients 1 oz of kahlua coffee liqueur 1 oz of vodka coffee ice build in a rocks glass. kiss of an angel 4 ingredients 1 oz of kahlua coffee liqueur 1 oz of vodka 1 oz of irish cream milk build in a whiskey glass with crused ice and stir. also good shaken. maggots 4 ingredients 1/2 oz of vodka 1/2 oz of peach schnapps 1/2 oz of baileys irish cream 1/2 oz of kahlua coffee liqueur pour into rocks glass in exact order. do not mix. once all ingredients are in glass, slightly shake. it will look like a glass full of maggots... great for halloween shooters. melon ball 3 ingredients 1/3 shot of midori melon liqueur 1/3 shot of vodka 1/3 shot of orange juice layer in a chilled shot glass. menage a trois 3 ingredients 1 oz of alize cognac 1 oz of kahlua coffee liqueur 1 oz of cream (or other milk) build in a highball glass, add a splash of club soda and stir. qf 3 ingredients 1 part of kahlua (or other coffee liqueur) 1 part of baileys (or other irish cream) 1 part of midori (or other melon liqueur) get a 60ml shotglass. then do equal layers with kahlua, midori and baileys on top white russian 3 ingredients 1/2 oz of vodka 3/4 oz of kahlua (or other coffee liqueur) 3/4 oz of light cream or milk mix the vodka and kahlua together then float the cream on top. add ice if desired.

Week Waru - Zoho Writer

Now Zoho this was shaping out to be a very good site that I was going to recommend to my friends but the last time I tried to write this it froze on me and all my comments were lost so I will see if it turns out better this time now that I am on the computer. It looks like a good program and it looks like it would be very helpful for group work when it is hard to get together as a group but I will have to test these features and see how well it does work, but the good thing is, is that I am willing to trial there features because it does look like a promising site.

And if your reading this now it means I have been able to write up my blog on Zoho and publish it so woohoo for me.

Just show that this has been written on Zoho I thought I would change the colour of some words and give a different coloured background

and put it some emotions

Week Whetu - Social Networking

Being a young cat I've had a bebo page for about a year now and I find it very helpful because I have some friends and family overseas so it is good to be able to keep up to date with their lives (as long as they are putting up regular photos and comments), you can leave comments and "bebo" each other, its a good way of keeping in contact even with friends. I find that even though we still live in the same area we see each other less and bebo is just another way of keeping in contact no matter where in the country or world they are.
Myspace is just another music and video site I think I prefer you tube, however you can search for people on myspace but i dont find it that exciting or original.
Face book, i have a few friends on face book and have checked it out before but I barely get time to go onto my bebo site that im abit weary of creating yet another page for people to hound me to check. But I think I may give in and join the facebook revolution. The cool and possible original thing about facebook is that you can send other facebookers presents or bomb them and they actually show up on screen so it looks a bit more fun than bebo but we will see.

Week Ono - Part 2 (Library 2.0 &Web 2.0)

I read through two of the web 2.0 articles and those were Into a new world of librarianship and To a temporary place in time. These were just the basic new age articles on the ever incraesing technology and how it is going to effect the library and the librarians. It is just normal that with technology comes advancements in all other areas of life its been like that forever, its just how we deal with it that is the thing. We can let technology take over our libraries and take over our jobs, but I believe the librarian will never be obsolete no matter how fancy the libraries get whether its Web 3.0, 4.0 or 10.0 some customers just enjoy the library atmosphere and the riveting conversation with the librarians.
It is important to keep up with the trends and be able to offer those services to the customers as well as the original library service but it is getting the right mix that is whats important

Week Ono - Del.icio.us & Technorati

So far I think Del.icio.us is an awsome bookmarking site as it would be very handy to have all your regular sites saved to the net rather then on your own personal computer making them accesible from wherever you have internet access. I have now signed up to Del.icio.us and have got all my favourites and most regularly visited sites all there waitning for me I think it is very handy and pretty easy to use too.

Technorati, I think this would be very good for you if you are into news and sports and enjoy reading and talking about it with others and finding out others opinions on subjects. Im not really into this kind of thing as I dont know it just doesnt really interest me quite plainly I guess. You get different search results when you look up a keyword search on Learning 2.0, different i mean as in the posts or search's by tags show up stories that people have posted while blogs seem to be more of a learning 2.0 focused blog where the posts or tags are just certain stories about learning 2.0.
The favourites at the moment are quite amusing as Jennifer Garner is at number 4 and men at number 5 under the top searches.