Saturday, November 17, 2007

At the end of the program


I had a great time with this program as I went through each activities, I find how amazing that people could do so much on the Internet. It is fun and very educational, I wouldn't mind to go through another program like this one. Lol, I had successfully completed it with in the due day, what a feeling.

Podcasts, Video & Downloadable audio


After went through each of the websites as required, I have find they are fascinating. You Tube and podcasts are great places to express one's self and at the sametime enjoy other's experience and creativity. Ebooks are very cheap to subscribe and some of them are even free to download, which are very convenient for people to use at the comfort of their own home. As I flicked through them, I learned few tips on cooking, how to download movies (still struggling with it) and how to apply eye makeup, isn't that great. As Internet become so popular these days, I sometime just wondering if in the near future all our public library's collection will be net based instead of having a physical location for people to visit. As for my own opinion, I still prefer a real library site for the public to come and pick they own material and at the same time meeting with other people. As humans we are socialized animals, we can not sit in front of a PC just by our self day after day, it would isolate us from the realistic world that we are currently living in. Which would be rather sad, don't u think?.

Online applications and tools


After experience with web based applications and tools, such as wordprocess and spreadsheets, I have find that as long as you have some basic knowledge of Microsoft office and Internet, learning to use these online based applications will a be very easy task. I think online applications and tools will be very well used by the public libraries in the near future, the reasons are: they don't cost a bucket of money to subscribe and they have provide most of the functions that within the Microsoft office package. I think they are great.