Finishing line - the course is run

Completion
Well, it's lovely to get here.  Having stalled badly at Endnote and Zotero, my completion of the programme was in some doubt, but I have made it and feel all the finisher's adrenalin. Thanks to the 23 Things team.

Enjoyment and Continuity
I have really enjoyed the programme, particularly the blogging incorporating superb pictures from Flickr - not, alas, taken by me.  Firefox is my default browser, iGoogle is set as my home page and I will continue with both and using RSS feeds to keep up to date

Lukewarm
Facebook still causes me privacy worries, and I think I would rather my photos were on Flickr.  Tweeting leaves me a bit cold: if I follow people with sufficiently interesting lives, real life looks rather pedestrian. The Pandora effect as experienced after watching Avatar.  Note to self - find a good, online therapist to deal with inferiority complex.

  by  Paul Robert Lloyd 

SlideSharing

Slide share is a fantastic resourse.  Many of the training courses I have been on recently have left their slide set on this website, and it is a great place for ideas.  Like You Tube, there is of course a lot of dross here, so atttentive searching is needed and careful use of search terms, but you can find inspiring stuff like this:-

Maximizing Classroom Collaboration Using Web 2.0 Technology

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  by  j-ster 

A view on Google Docs

Sounds a powerful device to share tools that are easily accessible, but the value is only there if they work perfectly every time.

I uploaded a Powerpoint presentation, but was slightly less than impressed since a couple of the Clip Art images had moved across the page.  Doesn't sound much, but they were obscuring some of the data and one had flipped itself upside down.  I would not be happy to give a presentation which contained such gliches, nor would I wish to share one in my name that was flawed this way.

So nice idea, nice try, but not really for me, particularly as I would have concerns about the security of my data and speed/reliability of internet access.  For now, I am happier with a laptop for mobility.

Wiki editing

Stunned at how easy it was to edit a page in Wikipedia - no expertise needed at all!  Maybe the stories about its inaccuracies are right.  Still find it useful though

You tube if you want to ...

Nothing like a  good, patronising video to tell you the blindingly obvious ... I do trust that everyone who ever puts a book back on our Library shelves has been equally well trained - do enjoy!

Flickering away

  by  HÃ¥kan Dahlström 

Now what's not to like about this?  Having ready access to such wacky images as this superb shot, is great.  As I am not a brilliant photographer, I am a little more wary about uploading my own attempts, but found the process straightforward.

Ending on a note, or Zotero

Endnote and Zotero look very interesting, powerful software, which when needed would really hit the spot.  I cannot see them being relevant to most of my day-to-day work, but you never know what may crop up.  Only the other day I was looking at a detailed accounting topic and wanting to use the correct format for references to put in the report.  If only I had done this first.....

 

 by  linh.ngân