Podcast

podcast This is the link to the podcast that Thom, Shell, Kathryn, Crystal, and myself made. We had a lot of fun making this and hope you enjoy it. We discussed all of the weeks of Blue 2.0 and things that we liked and didn't like. Overall I learned a lot of stuff. Making the podcast was easier than I thought but getting it uploaded was difficult. As I say in the podcast, one of the best things that happened during the Blue 2.0 experience is that I created a blog for my daughter, Hannah, who is 6 weeks old. I probably wouldn't have made one if I hadn't have had to make this one first. I also won an ipod shuffle. THANKS Blue 2.0.

Social Networking

I have been using Facebook for about a week now and I like it. My Facebook address is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1192892599. I have uploaded a picture and added about 9 friends.

I have also signed up on MySpace and until tonight was unable to commit to an url. However I finally decided on http://www.myspace.com/radioheadbamafan. I like MySpace but so far I feel that Facebook is easier to use.

I also joined http://wastecentral.ning.com/ Waste Central Network at Ning. This is a cool Radiohead site. I am glad I found this place. Right now I think I really like Ning and Facebook better than MySpace but with my limited use it is hard to tell for sure. I am pleased to be part of a group on Ning that enjoys Radiohead so much and it has a great deal of Radiohead information. It seems that Ning has a more immediate impact for beginning users. It will take a while for me to develop a MySpace and Facebook network, however it seems that in the long run Facebook and MySpace may be more rewarding. Right now my Ning experience seems to be more like a regular website with a chatting feature but it does have lots of other features like videos. However I believe most of the videos can be found on YouTube.

Well that is all of the Social Networking assignment. I still have to do a Podcast. Maybe tomorrow night. Once I have done the podcast I think I will have completed all the assignments for Blue 2.0. It has been fun!!!

Flickr

I just posted 3 pictures on flickr. It was really easy to post the pictures. I will invite some of my friends to view the pictures. Now it is time to work on my podcast.

YouTube

After viewing about 7 videos on YouTube, I finally found one I liked pretty good. Most of the ones I saw were not really very helpful if used and some that I clicked on were just plain too long for this exercise. One was more than 70 minutes long. I liked one on the Otis public library the best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS28qydjfsg This is the link.

I think this video could be better but it was more of what I was looking for. It was a video that basically explained what services were available at the library. I liked some of the humor in the video. They showed viewers their facilities and introduced their staff. I think this could be cool to watch if you lived in this town and knew these people.

I liked what the video that was 7o minutes was doing. This video was a presentation on 2.0 technologies and how to incorporate them into the library. I actually will probably watch this at a later time but not right now. I have not really thought of YouTube as a way to broadcast a presentation to anyone and now that I have this idea, I think it is extremely useful. I have watched some webinars on educause and this could be very similar although you don't have the live chatting feature.

Play WeekI

Tonight I created an account at Wikipedia, but after looking for errors on numerous pages, I did not notice anything to change. However, Wikipedia is really neat. It is amazing how so many people come together and write so much useful information. I know that it is not an authoritative source but it appears to be mostly accurate when I have used it. Now that I have an account when I find something to correct I will fix it.

I also used two of the photo generators but I really didn't come up with anything great. I liked some of the effects from the Photo Spread Effect Generator including the bubble and lightning effect. I looked at some of the e-cards on Letter James and may send one of them on someone's birthday. I often send free e-cards from Hallmark or some other website. I thought the Warning label Generator was really neat and I made one that I think is fairly funny. I did notice one error with the site. It often cuts off the last letter that it will let you type in.

I also played with one of the games listed in the award winner section. I liked Guess-the-google. It pops up a group of images that all relate to one key word and you try to guess it. It is fun.

Soon I plan on trying some of Second Life. More on that later.

Link to my Del.icio.us page

This is the the link to my Del.icio.us page. http://del.icio.us/hallbenjamin

Hannah Kaitlyn Hall

On February 27, 2008 Hannah Kaitlyn Hall was born. She has a blog at
"http://hallhannah.blogspot.com" .