Learn Spanish

Hola! How about learning to speak Spanish? Of course I'm already fluent in one sentence - I have two sisters - but how far will that get me in Spain? Hmmmm.

The BBC has a 12 week/episode Spanish learning course called Mi Vida Loca where you can learn Spanish via an interactive programme where you'll find yourself in the midst of a fast-paced mystery drama set in Madrid.

Podcasting how-to

I've got a feed to the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) web 2.0 23 things programme, called Learn & Play @ CML. (Don't, whatever else you do, look at the Home page and see what incentives they're getting!)

There there is a couple of links to how-to's for pod-casting. With all due respect to the SLNSW, I feel that's what's lacking in this Library 2.0 course - the how-to's. It's all very well to show us stuff but, I for one, need more meat (or nuts, or lentils, coz I don't eat meat).

Anyway, here at Thing 21 there are some links for how to do your own podcasts.

Week 9 - Podcasts and Audio

This week was a bit harder for me to get into as I am much more of a visual person than audio - give me a YouTube demonstration any day! However, I did find this Storytelling session on the Orange County Library website:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/oclspodcast/september08kids.mp3

And I added the podcast feed from the British Library to this blog. Have a look down the side....

Update from SLNSW re Library 2.0

Here are some websites and blogs the State Library suggest we check out:

You might like to see how some New Zealand libraries are using web 2.0 tools. Have a look at Dunedin Library on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunedinpubliclibraries/ and on YouTube http://nz.youtube.com/dunedinlibraries

Pew Internet have released two new reports.

Podcast downloading http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/261/report_display.asp shows that more people are listening to podcasts, but it is still a small audience. They have trend data and a demographic breakdown of those who listen.

New E-patient data http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Health_Aug08.pdf includes an analysis of people who get health information online