Task 21. Podcasts

I have investigated podcasts and had a look at some. I have downloaded one onto my bloglines account. It is called Grist environmental news. Myself I am not very fond of listening to radio, but I can see you could listen to an interesting talk as you drive.
You can see my choice at my bloglines account
http://www.bloglines.com/public/cbellair

Task 20. A Quick Tour of the Gail Borden Public Library.

Seems well resourced- a drive-in library!! I did it! I posted a video on my blog!. Mind you I didn't find much useful stuff on public libraries but I suppose we can be amazed at all the features American public libraries have and we might get some ideas.

Task 19. Web Tools

I had a look at the awards and chose to do a new customised home page with Google. It is great. I have got BBC world news and Economist news and my Yahoo email along the top.
Underneath I have got To do, Calendar, Weather australia and Wikipedia.
Below them I have currency converter and a Google map centred on Daylesford.
My only criticism is that the calendar is American with the months and days back to front!
I might change the home page around a bit but I am certainly sticking with it.

Task 18. web based applications

I have created a document in Zoho and saved it , but when I click on "publish" in Zoho and then click on "publish in blog" nothing happens so I cannot transfer it across. I will try again tomorrow.
Zoho seems like word to use and I have emailed my document both inline and as an attachment, but I feel frustrated not being able to publish the recipe that is my document.

Task 17. Learning 2 wiki

I have added an entry to the favourite holiday spots (I did Tuscany and Rome) and added my favourite animal (goat, which no-one had got on the list!)
I also added my blog to the list of favourite blogs. I wish everything wasn't so American. If its not going to be Australian I'd rather it was English.

Wikis

I have long been a fan of wikipedia, which usually seems to provide good information for secondary students. I have been looking at the library wikis and really like the book review ones like the Princeton public library one
http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/Princeton%20Public%20Library
That is a great way for people to discuss and recommend and get ideas as to what to read.
I know Anita is interested in getting one up and running for Yarra Plenty
I can see how they can be useful for instance if a group of people were collaborating on writing some document.
Also if one were created for an event like a conference.
Also for a group. For example my husband has a motor glider and a few hundred people round the world have similar ones. It would a great way for everyone to contribute information and edit contributions.

Image generators

Here is a calendar made from a photo from our walking holiday. It is of the shipwreck coast