(pat, pat, pat)

That was the sound of me patting myself on my back. Because I finished all 23 things. Yay!

I'm very grateful to the Discover 2.0 Program for all the cool and interesting things I learned. Chief among them that I'm not as tech-savvy as I thought, but hey, if I were perfect I wouldn't be able to experience the joy of learning! Seriously though, I had no idea many of these sites were out there, and probably never would have discovered them without Discover 2.0.

I just re-read my entire blog to refresh myself on everything we covered, which was a lot. Here are the sites I have actually used in my day-to-day surfing, in no particular order:

• Google Docs. Like I said, this site saved my butt, and now I save a copy of every document I create here.
• Spacebook. I go here occasionally to keep in touch with out-of-state friends.
• Songza. When I need a soundtrack for surfing, this is where I go.
• Del.icio.us. I finally have the spelling down! This is where I go when I want consumer input/opinions on things or information that is highly used.
• Goodreads. I've rated 50 or so books here, but don't visit very frequently.

Even if Google Docs was the only discovery I had made, it would have made the whole program worth it. Thank you to everyone who put this program together!!

Hmmm, suggestions for improvement. It would have been nice to get feedback and comments as we went through the program. Perhaps some time built in to peruse other people's blogs and learn from their discoveries? I did a little of that, but most of the time was taken up with doing the items. In fact, it would have been nicer to have more time for the whole thing period. I think I was only able to check out 70% of the provided links, and most of those links only briefly.

Otherwise, I liked the concept of blogging to keep track (for you and for us) of things and thought it was a great experience.

Google Docs Rocks!

This is an addendum to my previous post, Google Docs Ditty: Google Docs saved my butt last weekend. It was Sunday night, I was finishing up my school assignments that were due to be emailed by the following day. And guess what happened? The computer crashed.

Luckily, just THAT DAY I had saved a copy to Google Docs as a backup (actually, I was procrastinating earlier in the day, and thinking what else I could do on the internet before continuing with my school work, and the thought popped into my head "I could save a copy of my Word files to Google Docs as a back-up." So I did. Yes, I have a jumpdrive, but I was too lazy to go get it. I mean, the internet is right there.). What a freakin' coincidence! I was able to access my file from my roommate's laptop and finish my assignments on time, thanks to Google Docs. The ONLY downside was that some of the formatting was lost, but that doesn't matter as much as the actual data. I shudder to think what the outcome would have been had I not just learned about Google Docs at work. Thank you Discovery 2.0!

Google Docs Ditty

I grabbed a book
and took a look
and what did I behold?
A brownish spot
that smelled a lot,
and no, it wasn't mold.

I like to call the above ditty "The Joys of Delivery." I composed it, and this whole post, on Google Docs, which I think is an excellent invention. We should have Google Docs bookmarked on all of the computers. That way when patrons forget their jumpdrive and we no longer have floppys, they can still save their work, and better yet access it from home (or if they don't have internet access at home just save it and come back later with a jumpdrive). Actually, there are other programs we've been learning about that would also be great to have bookmarked on the PALs, like Goodreads and Librarything. What a great reader's advisory tool! Much more user-friendly than Novelist, I think.