#16 Week 7

I'm back at this - I had hoped to finish before the conference but it didn't happen. So, for the third time, I have looked through the wikis listed, and am overwhelmed by the amount of information! I love the Subject Guides on St. Joseph County Public Library's Wiki. For my personal use, I like the idea of posting book reviews on a wiki. It would be a great way for our (elementary) school staff to share what we are reading with each other. I also really like the idea of doing an online book club, which I didn't see here but have seen mentioned other places.

Library Success has so many great ideas! I found the section titled "Selling Your Library" very timely, as I was told at the last school site council meeting that library techs would be on the chopping block next year in our district.

It's great to be able to see how other folks are using these technologies to promote literacy.

#15 Week 6

Well I read most of the articles listed, and I am glad to have a (very!) basic idea of what Library 2.0 is all about. Technology is great, in fact it's pretty darned amazing! I think the interaction and communication between 2.0 users is way cool - it beats the daylights out of sitting in front of a computer and just reading what someone else wrote. To be able to comment, or edit, or create content is empowering. I am just not seeing much of a purpose for a lot of the new technologies in an elementary library setting. Maybe that's just because the staff at my school is older and not technologically literate. (Half of the staff cannot handle using a new email program for crying out loud!) And I am only willing to do so much as a part-time library technician...

Have you seen those purple bracelets? I'll change my to the other wrist now. :}

#14 Week 6

I, too, search Technorati for School Library Learning 2.0 and got 1600 + hits, but went back and put quotation marks around my search terms, "School Library Learning 2.0", and got a much more manageable 201 blog posts - mostly about Thing #14. I found 14 blogs using "School Library Learning 2.0," and 45 photos, but I don't see where to search tags! In the advance search - duh. Found the same stuff again.

I can see where tagging articles, etc., would help the web live community develop networks of information on specific topics. I think I don't have the time for it right now. As with so many of these new web tools, they are very time consuming to start with.

I am hoping to take just a few web tools from School Library Learning 2.0 that I can put to use.

#13 Week 6

I have had a delicious account since shortly after the 2006 CSLA conference where I attended a session by Allison Steinberg about Web 2.0. I really like having access to my bookmarks from any computer. This, too, is an overwhelming amount of information to manage! I really liked The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Delicious Users - VERY useful information about using delicious in a nutshell.

I can see a huge potential for researching some current or cutting edge topics, but that is not on my radar at this point. I am working on my new role as Secretary for our School Site Council, and I did not find anything about site councils in delicious!

Time to review the CSLA Toolkit...

Week 5 Thing #12

I have clomped around several times at Rollyo and find it slow to return search results. It doesn't fit any of my immediate needs as my school is mainly focused on reading in the library program. I will inform our computer lab tech about Rollyo and send her a link to it.

For now, I need to be done with Rollyo and move on!

#11 (Week 5) Web 2.0 from awards list & Ning

I have looked through the awards lists a few times, several days in between, to discover that I had already looked at the things I thought might be interesting. YourMinis was a site I looked at twice but I had to go to wikipedia to find out what a widget is... so was not impressed. I took a quick look at Google Apps, but didn't see any uses for an elementary library run by a tech. So I decided I would re-visit my account with Delicious which I set up after last year's CSLA conference and a Web 2.0 session presented by Allison ? I think it would be very useful to have my bookmarks available from home and work computers, not that I have put it to much use :}

I signed up for Ning and joined Library Technicians United last week and Teacher Librarian Ning tonight. And my brain is feeling stretched to the max, so good night!

#10 (Week 5) Online Image Generators

Here's one sample of an image created using Dummiez Book Cover Maker 2007.

#9 (Week 4) More RSS

I have spent way too much time looking at this "thing." I find it very interesting to read other library blogs and could get totally lost in that. I didn't much like Feedster - nothing I searched for seemed to get many hits. From Topix I added a feed for my home town, which is sometimes interesting, but mostly not as my home town is just mentioned in passing.

So I am moving on now... because I feel stagnated here! And I go back to work Wednesday and had hoped to be further along with 2.0.

#8 (Week 4) RSS

I have spent more time on this exercise so far, and maybe can see less use for it in the (elementary) library, but more use for me, personally. This will make it much easier to keep up to date on things that are not always on my radar. For example, I added Wendelin Van Dranaen's Jog Blog, http://etrtr.blogspot.com/ (I need to find out how to link things!) to my feeds because I want to promote Exercise the Right to Read when school starts.

I can't find the "share" tab on bloglines to make my account public, so if someone could help me out, that would be great. Thanks!

#7 (Week 3) Technology

Technology sure can make some things easier, but it also can eat up a lot of time playing with the different things. It's fun to play and I am glad I am doing it during the summer.

I have seen some really nice blogs with lots of great links. It almost seems like reinventing the wheel to create my own blog with useful links. I am hoping to be able to use some of this technology in the classroom as I may not be in the library in 07/08.

#6 (Week 3) Explore flikr 3rd party apps

Thinking Cat
Originally uploaded by justreadit

I don't know if this counts as a mashup, but I thought the caption maker was interesting. I think students would love to see their pictures as wallpaper on library and lab computers with captions!

#5 (Week 3) Explore Flikr

Well, I am finally getting back to 23 things. I managed to use my yahoo avatar as my budy icon on Flikr... posted three pictures... it was pretty user friendly. I had more trouble trying to edit out the faces in the library pic than anything else! It came out pretty ugly, but hey, it's a library picture. I REALLY appreciate being able to take this tutorial this summer!

library edited
Originally uploaded by justreadit

Here's my library photo. Forgot I was supposed to do this so had to back and set up flikr to "blog this photo." Piece of cake!

#4 (Week 2) Register blog with CSLA

I am now registered with CSLA for 23 Things. I am thoroughly enjoying learning how to blog and looking forward to learning some of the other things, like flikr, and rss feeds, and ??

#3 (Week 2) Set up your own blog

You are looking at my blog - yeah! I like this, it's pretty cool. I did already have an avatar set up for my yahoo account, but it was fun to go play with them some more. (The "beach librarian" may show up sometimes...) I always seem to have trouble picking screen names.

#2 (Week 1) Lifelong Learning Habits

So... having just completed my multiple subject credential program in my second college career, I think I have the life long learning thing down. I am pretty good at being responsible for my own learning. What I have trouble with is using technology to my advantage. I seem to have trouble implementing what I learn. I am thinking maybe this is a goal setting problem - when I don't have a definite goal in mind, I don't put what I learn into service. I plan to use this technology in the next school year! I think it will be a great way to keep parents up to date on what is happening in their child's school library.

My first post!

This is pretty exciting! I have actually wanted to do this for a long time, but just couldn't get started on my own... hmm? Probably a clue there about my learning style...