Week 10:

Podecasting - up to the minute technology. Download is the way to go!
Going to use my MP3 player for audio books and some music.
Love the ebook/audiobook feature.

BTW - One of my absolute all time favorites -Prairie Home Companion has it's own site for all the news from lake woebegone. Access it at http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/ It also gives you the radio stations that carry the show and the time slots to listen to it.

Week 9:

Liveplasma -cool. Like the integrated tree design spinning out to like or similar music and then to near genre.
Copyright info - essential.
Digital Music copyright info -also essential, especially since I'm a musician/singer and work with musicians on original works, performances, independent movie soundtrack/sound fx, music, etc.
Copyright for Libraries and Educational use - very valuable info for our daily business.

Bookmarked the sites for reference.

Digital copyright stance - It's a good ideal, but it's hard to regulate cyberspace. Sites have to be willing to self regulate and there is still no guarantee their users will follow suit.

Week 8:

Interesting to see the different methods for protecting intellectual and artistic items such as the common protections here. Check out "Copy Left" (vs copyrigtht) for open source code programming. It's along the same lines only the other direction. Rules for keeping software open source code.

Week 7:

Trainco -Interesting and good information. May help people stay focused.
Catster - Ahhhh, cute kittys.
Dogster - Puppies!!
Blufr - Fun! Right up my alley as a history major, didn't fool me on most of them.
Chugged - Ok.
Bottletalk - Ok also.
Puzzleplayer - Right up there with bored.com.

Just reinforces -there's something for everybody out there in cyberspace. If not create it!

Week 6

Mashups:
Propsmart - map does not function very well at all.
Found OCLS and UCF on the Learn 2.0 interactive map.
Facebook, myspace, Networking - one word CAUTION!

Week 5

Meez - ok cute, but useless.

Week 4:

utube/youtube: been there done that before, some business, some educational, some funny, LOTS of garbage. Some view it as their chance at 15 seconds of fame.
MySpace: ditto.

The web is like anything else that's totally open to the public - buyer beware.
Example: if you are doing research on a topic XYZ-university site is a much better bet for acurate information than "This is my cool page on X!".

Also, there ARE errors on Wikipedia. Just because it's on the web doesn't mean it's gospel. Double check your facts. The internet is everything from National Enquirer type stuff to Oxford University and MIT, always consider the source of the information.

However, if you just want fun, waste-your-time stuff, try www.bored.com!
Popping virtual bubble wrap can relieve tension.

History fun for the day:
Napoleon once won a battle because the bugle boy only knew how to play CHARGE!

Week 3:

Ok, connected to 5 RSS feeds. Good luck with having time to look at them!
Did - Sweden weather, (I'm going there.) Quilting, butterfly gardening, astrology, and OCLS technology. I can see where they might be useful to some, but the time savings is debatable.

Grokker however was a waste of time for me. I use wikipedia constantly (directly) and Dogpile another search engine that searches Ask, google, yahoo, and 1/2 a dozen others at the same time. No, its "grouped" listing was not that convenient for me.

Week 1-2:

Hey Ya'll!
Hello to 1 and all! Here's lesson#2.
Enjoy your experience Blogging.
History is not a mystery. It's a detective story!