Monday, February 18, 2008
Week 4 Thing #8
RSS - Really Simple Syndication. I tried to get an account in bloglines but still haven't received a confirmation email despite having given a second email address and going back numerous times to ask for another confirmation email. They must be having trouble today (I'm sure it can't be me :). Anyway, I then decided to apply for a Google Reader account which I successfully applied to the bottom of this blog! Google Reader has you sign up for packages unlike Bloglines which has you choose your own RSS feeds. Google will let you delete and add though. I will just begin with their news package. I did get a little sidetracked and thought that making an iGoogle page sounded like a great idea for a home page! I also added the Librarian Blog Page to the bottom that was suggested by 23 things. Now, I need to find some time to play today!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Owen and Jake Make The Cover!
Jake and Owen got to visit Washington DC in June of 2007 with Jake's 6th grade class. His Dad went with him! Lucky!
Week 3 Thing #5, 6 & 7
As you may have noticed, I really enjoyed the Flickr site and even got caught up in another site that helped me to put together a slideshow with photos from my library. Now, I am trying to figure out how to upload it to my webpage at Hulstrom which is proving to be difficult.
I attended Librarian Days at Metro State recently and one of the classes that I attended talked about upcoming trends for public and school libraries. They were all technical related trends and were geared toward attracting teenagers to the libraries through audio music and books. The public libraries are beginning to put their music collections on ipods and are developing listening centers with the ipods which can hold many cds at once. They also are downloading their books on tape to the ipods for listening centers. They aren't yet checking out the ipods.
Another trend was the introduction of Playaways. These are essentially books on ipods that hang on a lanyard. They are usually one book and come with earbuds for checkout. The presenter was very impressed with the warrenty which essentially replaces the playaway for almost any reason during the first year. Libraries are having huge success with the checkout and popularity of these playaways. I have ordered some for Hulstrom's Library and am interested to see how they do when they get here!
I attended Librarian Days at Metro State recently and one of the classes that I attended talked about upcoming trends for public and school libraries. They were all technical related trends and were geared toward attracting teenagers to the libraries through audio music and books. The public libraries are beginning to put their music collections on ipods and are developing listening centers with the ipods which can hold many cds at once. They also are downloading their books on tape to the ipods for listening centers. They aren't yet checking out the ipods.
Another trend was the introduction of Playaways. These are essentially books on ipods that hang on a lanyard. They are usually one book and come with earbuds for checkout. The presenter was very impressed with the warrenty which essentially replaces the playaway for almost any reason during the first year. Libraries are having huge success with the checkout and popularity of these playaways. I have ordered some for Hulstrom's Library and am interested to see how they do when they get here!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Week #3 Thing #3
I uploaded my son's Washington DC trip onto Flickr and we have been tagging the pictures and remembering his school trip with his Dad. The slideshow feature is great!
On Friday and Saturday, I attended Librarian Days at Metro State. We were exposed to wonderful technology and 21st century learning and reference tools. I took a 1/2 day class on wikis and will be using those more for class research projects. I am surprised at how easy Web 2.0 is to navigate and write to the web. Digitizing the Libray of Congress and making those primary resources available through American Memory to everyone worldwide is such a gift and an incredible use of technology for good!!! I can't wait to use that site for teaching. Tomorrow, my goal is to take and upload a picture of my library from Flickr to my blog. Wow! Somebody pinch me!
On Friday and Saturday, I attended Librarian Days at Metro State. We were exposed to wonderful technology and 21st century learning and reference tools. I took a 1/2 day class on wikis and will be using those more for class research projects. I am surprised at how easy Web 2.0 is to navigate and write to the web. Digitizing the Libray of Congress and making those primary resources available through American Memory to everyone worldwide is such a gift and an incredible use of technology for good!!! I can't wait to use that site for teaching. Tomorrow, my goal is to take and upload a picture of my library from Flickr to my blog. Wow! Somebody pinch me!
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