Thing #16 Wikis

How do you spell collabration? WIKIS

This is an awesome way for a group to organize a party, shower or even a lesson. I really liked the video clip showing how easy wikis are to use for collabration. This might even take the place of meetings how about that! Thinking back to all the planning meetings that I have gone to for school, church or social events wow this could have saved so much time and lots of trees. One thing that I worked on at church before moving to Houston was our 100 year church history anniversary. We were always meeting to check off what had been taken care and a wiki could have been a lot quicker way to manage all of the planning.

I used Wikipedia with students and they like it. I am not sure that they really understand what all they can do with it but that will come.

I did look at most of the wiki blogs and saw lots of interesting things happening. The book lover wiki gave me some thought on developing a book club wiki with junior high students. I spent time looking at the library designed wikis and wow there is lots of information out there. I looked at atomic learning pb wiki workshop because I love atomic learning. I think it is one of the best tools that we have to offer in our school district.

Thing #14 Technorati

Okay I have set the Technorati account and claimed my blog!
I watched the Technorati video and I get it. This is like the old conference calls people use to make, connecting people to people. I like what was said about regular people having conversations about what is interesting to them and not what CNN says is interesting to hear about.
I like searching using tags because that narrows down the information to what you are interested in checking out.

Thing #13 Del.icio.us

I was so excited to see my del.icio.us button on my computer. Wow this is a great way to organize receipes and keep up with them.
My husband and I have colleced cookbooks for years and I will am so excited for him to use this instead of printing out receipes and having them all over this place.

Thing #15 Library 2.0

I read 3 Library 2.0 articles and wow could not help but think back to my first years as a librarian and the job that we were trained to do. The days of the patron signing their name to check out a book, teaching how to use periodicals for research, checking out filmstrips and dukanes to teachers are just a memory. I remember doing inventory using my selflist drawers.
I think I like the computer age better. Students being able to check out books using computers and sometimes scanning their own has made the student more independent. Also, they love computers and getting to do research has been wonderful for them. I know that there are bad things out there for students to get into but with supervision we can guide them away from them.
I read the article 'On the way to the library experience of the future'. It did a great job of describing what our libraries will look like in the future.

Thing # 11 Library Thing

My Shelfari!
I like this one and see how it will work keeping up with all of my books. I love books and buy a lot of them for my own personal use. Sometimes I buy them, read them and then lose them in my bookcases. I have always intended to organize them and now maybe library thing will be just the way for me to do just that. Also, I like to share my books and maybe bloggers can see what I have and just ask!

Okay the video is hummmm good. I just need to get a pink hard hat and a cup of coffee and I will be right back..........

Thing #10 Play around with image generator

I found this butterfly from Free Clip art. This is a great way to make lessons much more attactive. I have always like to use clip art on worksheets, information bulletins, etc. I played with the suggested online generators Comic Strip, Custom Sign, Image Chef, Happy Face and Trading Card Maker.

My favorite was Custom Sign Generator and I have it on my desk top at home cause I could not get the thing into my post. I am still working on that and will have to get bact to you...

Thing #9 Library-related blogs

I did read many different blogs. I seem to get interested in what the blogger has to say and get involved with there thoughts I forget what I am looking for to begin with. I really would like to meet some of these people but know that will never happen so will just be content to communiate via blogs.
I especially liked what Cool Cat Teacher had to say about herself.
I could not open a few of the sites for some reason. Google Blog Search was very easy to read and navigate around. I looked at the rest of them and then they all begin to look alike. Atomic Learning has great videos on RSS.