Summary of Learning 2.0

I have enjoyed the opportunity to learn about these tools in a systematic way and hopoe that other such opportunities will present themselves to stay abreast of new tools as they become available. Congratulations to the creators of this program.

Gutenberg Project

An interesting project but restrictive in its applicability to public libraries if the only books in the project are out of copyright i.e. classics. There is a limited audience for classics anyway, and plenty of competition as they are cheaply and widely available everywhere in ye olde paper form. The computer audio recording I listened to of David Copperfield sounded awful - I can't imagine anyone wanting to listen to that. The human voice audio recording of The Little Matchgirl though was very good.

About YouTube

YouTube seems to be a very easy site to use, and as usual, appears to be a place you could spend hours in if you chose. I was impressed with how easily I was able to find a particular video I was looking for through the simple search bar. The related video sites are also useful. It was easy to post the video to my blog.

YouTube: Mona and the Children

Care2

I checked out Care2, which won the SEAmoz first prize for the philanthropy category in the Learning 2.0 awards. Its an interesting site that looks to me rather like what we used to call a portal, but I suppose more interactive. I had a closer look at the GLBT site in particular and can see that I could spend all day just browsing from one link to the other there. Very useful if you are particularly passionate about that cause I guess, but I still wonder how people find enough hours in the day to browse and use all these sites and tools.

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Oh rose thou art sick

The invisible worm

That flies in the night

In the howling storm

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

 

William Blake