Friday, March 16, 2007

Week 9, Exercise 21

Wow, this is cool, an absolute goldmine of manageable chunks of information delivered aurally. Like many of the resources introduced, there's more out there than one can cover in 20 minutes. The risk lies in wandering around out there for hours, possibly missing activities that are fundamentally more important. Nevertheless, I'm glad to have explored this resource as I found many things of personal interest (see list below that I'll be returning to). For one thing, it looks like a great place to find material with which to practice one's foreign language comprehension skills. "Learn Hindi from Bollywood Movies" looked like it could be fun. I learned how to use my French press and make Irish coffee by watching "Art of the Drink: St. Patrick's Day Irish Coffee." Here are some interesting findings. Podcast Alley's "Top 10" included two Harry Potter themed podcasts. The most popular tags today, as posted by Yahoo Podcasts, were comedy, music, news, podcast and technology. Both Podcast Alley and Yahoo Podcasts did a better job of locating library-related podcasts. I added "Libraries Across Cultures" to my Blogline feeds. "The program aims to help librarians serving multilingual, multicultural populations understand how to more successfully reach new people." Another one that YA librarians might find useful is "Game On = Games in Libraries," which "aims to keep librarians up-to-date on gaiming."

Here are my personal favorites from today's exploration:
* Unabellavista: How to Tour Italy
* Creative Photoshop with John Reuter
* NPR All Songs Considered

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