THE END

I never thought I would make it. I must be the biggest technophobe I know but through the cajoling and coaxing from others and tremendous support from mumbaichic, I have made it and had my eyes opened to the seemingly endless amount of possibilities with the web.



I most enjoyed flickr and can see me making great use of this site when I find the time to spend researching my family history. I shall be able to add images and to also sort and file them in the correct family groups and hopefully be able to view images that others have put up for the different families.

Although I encountered numerous frustrations with the slowness of the internet, I persevered as can see the benefit of keeping current with what is available. RSS Feeds proved to be particularly frustrating and I was ready to give up at that point but my colleagues encouraged me through that hurdle.

Thanks to Jane for her help and for the positive feedback from the team. It has been a very worthwhile exercise. I just want to add that my blog is only focused on the exercises and is so boring when I look at the others. With time I may be able to lively it up!!!

Week Nine

This is the Dance of the Dying Swan from the ballet Giselle, probably my favourite ballet. To see this live is an amazing experience-look at the ballerina's arms, they are so fluid. I have had a lot of fun looking at YouTube and can see why it is so popular.

This site has an entertainment and youth focus on first glance. It could be used as an instructional aid in teaching information literacy, database and catalgoue searching similar to some of the videos we have viewed during this course.

The podcasting exercise was frustrating to say the least with the internet at an all time slow pace. Eventually I managed to attach a feed to my blog, http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheWorldAtNoon.

I am not sure that I would use this very often , happy to turn on the radio but can see the appeal of the visual plus the audio.

Had a look around Netlibrary and ebooks-certainly has its advantages: being able to search content is great but I am not sure how far the indexing is taken. I found a Family History book and a book on careers that I have added to my favourites and will look at both again.