# 23 The End

The future is limitless. I have enjoyed every bit of this program. Technology is changing at an alarming pace and it has been great to learn a few new things such as flikr, blogging and wikkis. I will certainly continue to try to keep up with these changes and explore further. Thankyou to all who made this learning experience so valuable and enjoyable.

# 22 Audio books

I am a Huge fan of audio books. I listen in the car, when I am ironing, and when I am walking. The World Ebook fair is a great site for downloading ebooks. I listened to the Grimm fairy tale Briar Rose from the computer, as I don't have an ipod. Will libraries subscribe to ebooks in the future for our borrowers to download? I like the idea, that when the loan expires the audio file is deleted. No more overdues, fines, missing discs or cleaning and repairing discs.

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# 21 podcasts

In week 4 I subscribed to a couple of podcasts, but now had more time to explore pod directories. I found podcast.net the most easy to use. Finding Australian content a little bit harder but it was there. I have added Radio National Book Show and Radio National Book reading to my RSS feeds. There are numerous uses for this technology in libraries, training and education, podcasts via our web page of book readings for children, teenages and adults. The list is limitless.

# 20 You Tube

I already had an account with You Tube, but only used it to watch videos sent to me by friends and family. After exploring this site further, I discovered that you can save videos to favourites, post to blogs etc.

You Tube could be used as a training and educational tool in libraries. Information is not just contained in books any longer it is also contained in all forms of media, this is a great tool to share information contained in video clips. I have chosen a favourite video of Leon Davis's highlights.

AFL Leon Davis

A Collingwood star!

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Keith Urban is one of the many artists performing at this years' Point Nepean Music festival, Easter 2008

# 19 Discovering web 2.0 tools

These tools are certainly enabling users to create and share content online. I looked in the winners category for the web 2.0 awards. The city guides grabbed my attention, although the three winners, Yelp, Judy's book and yahoo local were all based on American cities. These guides are a great idea where anyone can add favourite city sights, local facilities and favourite restaurants with reviews.

Eventful however was more relevant as it is worldwide and had a great variety of upcoming events in the three Australian states that I looked at, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Not only the usual upcoming music events are listed but charity functions, learning and educational events as well as politics and activism events.

Eventful - Events