Jasper's thoughts about the program

We made it.Yay!!! At times Mum and I were on an incredibly steep learning curve, but we dug our claws in and kept moving forward. As we first thought, time constraints seemed to be one of the natural enemies of Life Long Learning. Let's hear it for determination! There were a few little hiccups on this journey but no major cat-a-strophes. Thank you to all of our very helpful colleagues for their support. Some of our favourite things in the Web 2.0 program were, Image Generators, Flickr, Librarything and Youtube. These are great fun to play around with. On the more serious side Mum can see the potential uses of these sites and wiki tools to expand and improve library services. She was also very impressed with Web based applications and tools such as Google docs and spreadsheets, and del.icio.us. So is this the end???? We don't think so. We are now Contemplating using Wetpaint to create our own site (something we would never have dreamed of before!). Big thank yous to everyone who made it possible for us to take part in this program. We have learned sooo much and we really appreciate all of your efforts. Curiosity never really killed cats, or people for that matter, so you are likely to hear more about Jasper 's adventures in Web 2.0.

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Jasper

Has anyone seen my Mum? : lost in image sharing technology.

After my investigation of Flickr I told my Mum about all the fun she could have exploring image sharing tools. It turns out that this may have been a terrible mistake!! She has been off on her own adventure and is now totally absorbed by this technology. My likeness has now been 'beaded' and 'Warholized', and she has even created 'cutsie poo' calendar pages using my baby photos (I really must speak to that woman about uploading some more recent photos). I am finding it rather difficult to drag her attention away from this technology as there are so many aspects to explore. The danger is that she could become lost/stuck at this point in the Web 2.0 program, when we still have quite a way to go before the end. On the up-side, Mum was recently able to see the first photos of her brother's newborn baby in Facebook, hours after the birth. She explained to me that in the 'dark ages' (not so long ago) she would have had to wait for film processing and for a postal delivery to see these photos. Now I understand her total amazement with photo sharing technology, and I'll just have to be more persistent in keeping her on track