The Last Posting

This is my last post and all I can say is that I really really enjoyed this course and thank you very very much for putting the course together :-) I am now waiting with baited breath for the next course :-) (and I am sad that this one has now finished :-)I have learnt some really cool things and what stood out for me the most was the Week of being Creative, with Animoto and Go Animate - I had such great fun with these that I now want to (hopefully) do a course on animation and video-making :-) I really enjoyed the Social Networking and the genealogy exercises as well....actually I enjoyed everything! I think all the exercises are relevant to my job because I will be able to point customers in the direction of these websites and technologies. I would also very much like to try using Animoto and GoAnimate to make short promos for some of the events we have here. I would also like to possibly provide Click and Learn classes on some of these topics. I think the genealogy sites, the social networking sites and Animoto/Go Animate are topics that would be very popular. I am sure that children would love Go Animate - maybe classes could be provided for them as well as for adults. There are many possibilities...

Social Networking sites

Digg is amazing! I could sit there all day looking at all the photos and reading all the stories etc...if I didn't have to do other things (like work) of course :-) I signed up to this site and will definitely be a regular visitor in future - it is a great way to find out what's happening in the world and to expand your general knowledge etc. I read the story "What's a hulu? The origins of 8 High-Tech Names" from the "Popular" pages, and learnt the origin of names like TiVo, Bluetooth, Blackberry and Wii etc. I'd heard of the latter three but hadn't heard of TiVo so that is another bit of technology I am now aware of :-) I also read a story from the Science pages "Extremely rare bird photgraphed for the first time - then eaten," about a Worcesters' Buttonquail which was thought to be extinct. Then one was found in the Phillipines and videoed and photgraphed before it was cooked and eaten! Amazing! And such a shame...I couldn't quite believe it! And I can now say I have seen a 100 billion dollar note...under the Lifestyle pages, there is a photo labelled 3 eggs cost...3 eggs are shown above a 100 billion dollar note supposedly from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe - I'd really like to know if that banknote was real! I'll have to follow up on that one...I also signed up to Stumble Upon and now have the Stumble toolbar installed on my home computer...and using the toolbar and my selected interests I stumbled upon Scribbler, where you can do scribble drawings, and "Collected quotes from Albert Einstein" - my fav quote was "Imagination is more important than knowledge", and I believe it is 'cos with knowledge but without imagination, I am sure that many of these web 2.0 technologies would not have been invented in the first place. I have set Scribbler and the Einstein quotes to My Favourites, and I am sure I will be stumbling upon many more interesting websites/webpages using Stumble Upon...and saving them to My Favourites...the only problem is that I am likely to end up with hundreds and thousands of websites/webpages listed under My Favourites! ...if my computer will store so many! :-) I also joined up to Reddit and read about an asteroid that recently came very close to Earth. And I joined up to Newsvine and read the story of the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team. So I now have all the news and articles I could want just sitting their at my fingertips. I really enjoyed all these sites.

Go Animate, Animoto and The Klingons' Library Card

I embedded my animation, "The Klingons' Library Card" from Go Animate in my blog. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see it. I had to put it there because if I had put it at the top (and I did try that), I couldn't figure out how to make it bigger so that you could see the whole thing. I had great fun doing the animation and got carried away a bit :-) I could have done a lot more if there were no constraints on my time. I did wish that all the text could be made bigger - maybe it can, but I haven't managed to work out how yet. The text just seemed to get smaller the more you wrote so that it would fit inside the speech bubble and so I felt a bit limited there as to how many words I could use...and I guess there is a size limit on the speech bubble :-) I enjoyed my week of being creative. I really enjoyed Animoto and Go Animate and I can see these being used for short promotions of events maybe in the library, also as you have said, for Click and Learn classes. I can imagine that animating and setting up videos would be something that a lot of people would be interested in learning. I am sure these technologies could also be used to produce our annual Xmas cards...and I will definitely be coming back and playing around more on Animoto and GoAnimate in the future...and I am even inspired to maybe do some sort of further course on producing videos/animations etc...