summer reading could now become summer listening?

When I created an account on emusic.com, I received 50 free downloads and a free audio book. This was the first time I had heard of such a thing. This website seems to have hundreds of books titles I could get for free (silas marner? i think yes.) as i said in my last post, i learn the best by listening. putting a audio version of a book on my ipod could be very convenient..

podcast

I use podcast all of the time. Mrs. Phebus actually creates podcasts of her lectures in biology. She posts them on moodle.com (the website she uses for organizing our class documents instead of using blackboard) and we download them to study. i am a person who learns the best through hearing. i listen to her audio podcast and watch her video podcast and they are seriously the reason i pass that class. I also have gotten podcasts off of itunes.

youtube

I loveeee youtube! I think it is absolutely brilliant. You can search any random word and find hundreds of videos. It think the most fascinating thing about youtube is how you can literally become a CELEBRITY. So many people have spent a couple minutes making a video, they post it on youtube, and soon they have millions of fans. It is so crazy.

there is a show on mtv that discusses some of the best music videos ever made. one of the more modern songs is "here it goes again" by okgo. youtube actually seriously helped okgo's career! OK Go's treadmill-choreographed music video is among the winners in the first YouTube Video Awards.

rollyo and delicious and tagging

I actually think this is really cool. I had never heard of anything like this. I made an account http://www.rollyo.com/tess3112/ and a “searchroll” (for some acting websites I use often).
i also made a delicious account (http://delicious.com/tess3112 ) and now I have all of my bookmarks saved. So when I get my computer reimaged, I will have them all saved on this sight!!


If I am looking for something particular, I can search a word and see what things have been tagged with that word. It helps to specify my searches.
If you tag your post with popular keywords, then more people will search them, find them, and read your blogs. Technorati is another blogging tool besides blogger that you can become a part of it and search for entire blog post using key words.

library thing

· I have never cataloged books before, but I love books. I cataloged of few of my favorites. (http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=tess3112&deepsearch=) I collect old books and I have them all over my room. My mom also loves books and we have a library in our house with hundreds of books. She would probably be interested in this website and I will share it with her so she can catalog her own books.

flickr

· I already have a flickr account. I use it to get my photography and art seen. Photobucket is fast and convenient for uploading pictures if you want to get the link to put on your myspace or facebook. When I want to share photos with friends or family, I prefer flickr. It is more organized and has less advertisement.
· Jim Bumgardner, or “Jbum” on flickr, created his own program called “flickr color picker.” By clicking on any color on the color wheel, it shows pictures that have been uploaded on flickr that match that exact color.

Computer Architecture

woohoo!
i finished the projectt
even though it took a while, i think it was interesting to discover so many different sites that i probably wouldn't have found on my own.
i have actually shown people some of the things i've learned and their first reaction is "how do you find these?!"
even my mom thought the library catalogue site was cool :)