Thing #23 Summary

Finally, after a whirlwind tour of 23 Things on http://www.library2play.blogspot.com/ I have finished. I loved so many different parts of the journey, but I guess I would have to say exploring with Big Huge Labs , delicious , and Zamzar are in the top 10. I had seen friends who had blogs and was envious their fearlessness to meet the future. I didn't have a clue where to begin until this class! (THANKS! Dr. Bishop)
This activity has heightened my awareness of web 2.0 and the many applications that are available. (many for FREE) I wish I had had more time to explore each of the items on the list, but the deadline was closely approaching! I know I will be sharing the things I learned with my friends and colleagues, as well as, reviewing many of the activities again and again. This is just an awesome activity! I can't wait to begin Library2Play2! Wahoo!!!

Thing #13-Tagging and Discovering Delicious

OMG! Delicious is so addictive. It is a website where you can bookmark your favorite websites and tag them. Tagging is basically giving one word descriptors to help you "file" something. Amazon.com is famous for their tagging. With Delicious you choose the tags that you want. There are often reccommendations but you are free to create your own tags so that you can search for the items when needed. For example: DeweyBrowse.org is a website that has links to other websites that are catalogued according to the Dewey Decimal System. I tagged it under the following tags: library, cataloging, Dewey, library, kids, links, research, school, websites, resources, and DeweyDecimalSystem. These are all ways that I would used to search for this website again. It is like a personal search engine of my "favorites". There is a program that if you use internet explorer as your browser to easily download all your favorites. I was not that fortunate. I have been using AOL for forever it seems and had favorites bookmarked that I wanted to add to http://www.delicious.com/. I had to enter all the favorites "by hand"---copying and pasting URLs and labeling the tags. I was so OCD about it one night I stayed up until 3 am. It took me a few days to do, but it is finally done! On the plus side, I was able to check links to see if they were still hot and some were definitely not! And then I also wondered what was I thinking when I saved some of them in favorites, because they definitely weren't ones I went back to much.