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Fontana Regional Learning Things: April 2008
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Thing #6: Finding More Feeds. Thing #6: Finding More Feeds. Now that you've practiced adding some Fontana Learning blog feeds to your Google Reader account, try finding other RSS feeds that interest you and add them to your account. Check out some of these resources. Use the search tool on Google Reader. Look for the RSS icon on your favorite websites. If you don't see it, it's possible that they use a slightly different version of the symbol. How can libraries use this? A quic...
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: Thing #21: Podcasts
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008. The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the ". Word of the year. By New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the past few years, it's easy to see why. Center for Disease Control. Account as well, so t...
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: Thing #20: YouTube and video sharing
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Thing #20: YouTube and video sharing. We're down to the last FOUR things! Congratulations on making it this far! Thing #20: You Tube and online video sharing. Online video hosting sites have exploded over the past few years, allowing users to easily upload and share videos on the web. 79 million users with three billion videos in January of 2008 alone. YouTube-sponsored 2008 Presidential Debates. Teaser trailer for this year's Big Read selection, My Antonia by Willa Cather.
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: Thing #18: Online Productivity
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008. Thing #18: Online Productivity. Thing #18: Online Productivity. No, this term doesn't have to be an oxymoron. The availability and use of online productivity web-based applications (think word processing and spreadsheets) has exploded over the past few years and for good reasons! These powerful applications provide users with the ability to create and share documents over the internet without the need of installed desktop applications. To finish Thing #18:. Sites You Might Like.
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: Thing #22: NetLibrary
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008. The collection of databases that are available for free to all NC residents and students,. We have access to over 26,000 titles in both e-book and audiobook formats on NetLibrary. Just click on the NetLibrary link on that page).for free! You can listen to these audiobooks, which range from fiction to language lessons, on your computer, or on your new mp3 player, if you choose that as your incentive! Unfortunately, the NetLibrary files are NOT compatible with iPods.). Fontana Reg...
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: Thing #23: The End!
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Thing #23: The End! Thing #23: The End. This is it- the very last exercise you have to complete for the Fontana Regional Learning program. You've all worked so hard to make it to this point, and I am so appreciative that you've stuck with it the whole way. I hope you've learned a thing or two and had some fun. To be true to what we've explored and learned, I've created and uploaded a video for you to watch. The video to watch appears below:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: June 2008
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Thing #23: The End! Thing #23: The End. This is it- the very last exercise you have to complete for the Fontana Regional Learning program. You've all worked so hard to make it to this point, and I am so appreciative that you've stuck with it the whole way. I hope you've learned a thing or two and had some fun. To be true to what we've explored and learned, I've created and uploaded a video for you to watch. The video to watch appears below:. Wednesday, June 11, 2008. To download...
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: Thing #19: Your Choice!
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008. Thing #19: Your Choice! Thing #19: Your Choice! 1) Select any site from this list of. Nominees and explore it. With so many to choose from, it might be handy to first select a category that interests you (like Books or Personal Organization) and then simply select a tool/site to explore. Here's the short list if you'd prefer it.). Be careful to select a tool that is free. And that doesn't require a plug-in or download. The majority of these free, so this shouldn't be a problem.
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Fontana Regional Learning Things: Thing #17: Your Turn with the Wiki
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Thing #17: Your Turn with the Wiki. Thing #17: Firsthand Wiki experience! Sandbox" is the term that wikis often use to describe the area of the website that should be used for pure play and experimenting. For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set up a whole new wiki for you to play with:. Fontana Regional Learning Wiki. For this explore-and-play-with-wikis exercise, you are asked to add an entry or two to the. Fontana Regional Learning Wiki. 2) Add at least one favor...
