Week 2 of Learn 2.1

For those of you who weren't part of the course before, my name is still Kelly Head, and I still work at the Main branch of OCLS. I had a great time last year with Learn 2.0, and I hope that Learn 2.1 will be just as gratifying for everyone! I'm hoping to find some new and exciting web applications through this course, for fun and for information, and also to show up my programmer roommates with my new knowledge!

While the Blogging Song wasn't as well recorded or produced as the song in the Adventure activity, it had more personal flair, as well as being funny. For a similar thing, check out a more Bollywood-inspired Blog Song. There's just so much out there, what with nerdcore rap and geek music, a lot of people love to sing about the internet.

I was really extremely impressed with the WWI blog. To spend so much time making something like that as a tribute to your grandfather and your family tree, and to coincide it 90 years in the future, is really quite a feat. It kind of makes you realize the spectrum of things available online, they can be poignant, funny, dumb, or sad, anybody can put anything out there for everyone to see. it blows my mind, the sheer scope of content available.

I checked out the Adventure links, and I do really like The Shifted Librarian. I also remembered a blog I found in Learn 2.0, The Librarian Avengers. There's a great post with links to Etsy "librarian" and "read" necklaces. I also re-found one of my favorite ongoing book discussions, Fine Lines, which pretty much talks about all of my favorite books from my childhood, from an adult point of view. Ladies of the 80s, remember the books that made you who you are, and how bizarre they seem now, looking back!

Week 1 of Learn 2.1

Hello again! I haven't used this blog since the last Learning module, but I figured what better way to start a new project than with a blog that hasn't gotten much love since then? The video for the first week was a lot like the "Machine is Us/ing us" one from last year (which, interestingly, was recently featured in a talk given at the Main branch by local author Allen H. Kupetz for his new book The Future of Less, about the trend towards a paperless economy). It makes me wonder how many similar videos are being made around the world, attempting to catpure the intrinsic flow of the information age.

I'm excited to see what's new on the web, last year even my techie roommates were impressed by the sites we visited (especially the Yahoo Pipes activity, which was pretty difficult for them to believe I had done). The concept of Web 3.0 is not really a stretch to anyone who's a fan of modern science fiction, but I think that the worlds put forth by Cory Doctorow and Rudy Rucker maybe a while coming, yet. I just hope I'm still around in time to enjoy the benefits of such a permanently connected society!