lesson # 23 Summary with unspeakable joy!

Only twice in my life have I really appreciated the number 23, ending this lesson and when I was 23 :)). The lesson was not that hard, but I could not get to them every week, so keeping up was one of my challenges. Some of my favorites discoveries was that I could actually do this lesson and it was not as hard as I thought. I am a little intimidated when it comes to technology. As far as my goals I plan to take advantage of some of the websites that interest me and use them for practice, personal or business purposes. I have a log at my desk of potential websites. This was a real learning experience for me, but I did not like signing up for every site just to complete the lesson and some required several attempts. Most of those I'd probably would not use again.

I would most definitely repeat this class and recommend you offer more computer learning skills at our desk top making it interesting. Practice makes perfect and builds confidence in what you do. I can recommend some websites to customers, friends and family. Of course I would need more experience, because I know there will be questions and I would feel foolish not knowing the answers.

I'm looking forward to my MP3 player and with that, overdrive is on the top of my list of things to do.

lesson # 21 itunes

I use itunes for my ipod to import and export music, books on tape, and some free podcast from websites. I find it easy and fast. I have created a itune library and have much information stored. I'm still learning how to transfer my itunes library to another computer, but that's OK.

I have hundreds of songs and at no charge. Now there are some podcast and music Cd's that ask for a small fee, if that's your choice. The music on my device are Cd's I own and exported specifically for certain things I'm doing during the course of a day. My itunes library consist a variety of my favorites. I can also work at my desk while listening to my itunes library

with headphones not disturbing others.

I did not like podcastalley, I'm very basic on the computer when it comes to personal use and Odea, I just did not want to do another registration. I tried to watch some of the videos and it required membership, not again!

Overdrive #22

I would love to use the Overdrive to download books but it's not compatible to my iPod, and even if it was compatible we can't

access or download Overdrive to our work computers. I have read the instructions and looked at some of the titles on the websites, best-sellers are listed. I would probably download some materials from Overdrive, just to know how it works, if I had the right audio player. I really can't rate the site because I've never used it. In the past I've had customers to call regarding the Overdrive and staff had limited knowledge. I am not comfortable with the Overdrive at this point and time. When I get my MP3 player, I'm sure I'll feel more confident after using the overdrive for myself.

Lesson # 20 YouTube

I like YouTube. I get lots of video through email from this website, news, entertainment,personal, and comical. The only concern is while watching the videos they are sometimes fuzzy or the video freezes for a moment or two. I wish it was some kind of construction that would eliminate these problems. I did I say sometime this happens? What I mean is most of the time this happens. But it's one of the most favorite websites known and used.

Here is one of my favorites "The Gay Weatherman" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TPc4p7uxEs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ML5ymlCFA

Just for fun

Web 2.0 Awards #19

http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0 http://www.flickr.com/

http://answers.yahoo.com/ http://www.fixya.com/

I will be doing more research on these websites. There are lots of resources stored on Seomoz and not enough time to examine the features. But so far I've checked out the Yahoo Answers and that was ok, I would definitely recommend that to teens. Fixya is not my cup of tea, maybe my husband would be interested in this web on repairs and technical stuff. Flickr is ok, that was one of the lessons and it's easy, even for a beginner like me. I had no interest in this stuff until I started these lessons. I guess that's whole the purpose.

Zoho Writer and documents #18

Note: From the GRR

Thank you for volunteering to work in the GRR of the Main Library on Sundays. GRR can be a fun and busy place for someone who is self motivated, alert, disciplined, and compuer literate. Our goal is to provide outstanding service to our customers-assisting the to sign-on the Pharos, to print, to access websites, and to use various Microsoft office products. GRR staff must also ensure that JPL policies for omputer and Internet use and the code of conduct are followed.

In an effort to make you more aware of your responsibilities during your temporary Sunday assignments, the GRR staff helped me compose a list of do's and don'ts. I hope this will assist you in making the most of your time there.



Lesson # 18 Zoho Doc
Zoho Writer is pretty interesting. I played around with documents and it reminded me of Word in some ways. It offers severals features. It offers links for simple tasks, planners, things to do, customer invoices, business, company invoices and keeping records on paying personal bills. I also thought of Quick books while messing around. It has a lot to offer.