Things #17

Rollyo was another site I found to be very helpful. I created a few different search engines. I made one for shopping, news and education. I do love to shop online and I always do it from the same places so this is going to be very bad for me! I generally use the same websites for lesson ideas. This will be great a having them all at the same place. This will be another tool I will be able to take advantage of.

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Things #16

I really enjoyed reading about Wikis. I know we talk about them alot but this exercise really helped me to fully understand what a Wiki was and how it worked. I found the librarian teacher wiki veryhelpful. Something like that would be one way I could use a wiki in my library. I liked that it had must read books set up by age level and genre. That would be something the students could really benifit from. I also liked the book trailers site. The copyright information would be a way to benefit your teachers. A wiki in your library could really have a never ending list of uses for your students and staff.

Thing #15

After reading about Library2.0 it tells me that in my field I am going to have to always be up to date with the lastest trends in technology. I think it is great the way the library is changing. Our world is changing and so are our students. If we want to keep out students interested in the library we are going to have to have a library that they can relate to. Kids are becoming more and more technologically advanced everyday. Coming into a library and using an automation system will be no big deal to them. Most of them alreay have blogs or are familiar with blogs, tagging, google, flikr and many of the other things we have been discussing. One of the articles did make the point though that libraries are people. I think it is alwasy important to remember that no matter how much technology takes over in our lifes we have to continue to keep human interaction a part of everything we do.

Thing #14

These sites have made me realize how important tagging can be. Tagging helps to make searching much easier. I did not like this site though as much as I have like others. I really enjoyed de.li.cious because I was able to find so many websites with great lessons and information on them. I like Flikr because I am always looking for images to use. I however do not honestly see myself reading that many blogs. The ones I would read are going to my Google account now. Technorati was a neat site but I did not find anything spectacular on it and honestly think I would choose any of the other "things" to use before I used it.

Thing # 13

This has been my favorite thing so far. I have found so many amazing things. This thing took me forever because I found myself stopping and working on lesson plans for when school starts because I was so excited about what I was finding. This is the first way teachers can use this tool. It is great way to find wodnerful ideas for your classrooms as well as share ideas. This can be a great resource for research because of the tagging it allows you to do. I loved this thing!

Thing # 12

I enjoyed the article The Ten Commandments of Blogging. I thought it was well laid out, easy to read, and full of usefull information. Two of the points I thought were most important were read before you write and contribute. It is always inportant to read before you write. This will help to ensure you are making a valid point and not just writing something that has already been addressed or making a point that is way off topic. The next point I thought was important was to contribute. It is always easy to write things such as great idea or I really agree with that. Comments like those say you do not have anything to really add to the conversation or that you do not care to take the time to come up with something insightful.

Things #11

I really liked LibraryThing. One of the things I really liked was the recommendations it gave when you clicked on one of the books in your library. I love to read but am not the best at picking out books. Almost every book I read is a recommendation from someone. I also like that it gives you so many recommendations. With that many it would be hard for at least one not be one I would enjoy. This would be really cool to have your students create accounts and be able to use it to find other books choices and to talk with other students about the books they are reading. I went to two of the groups. I went to the Librarians the LibraryThing and the Girlybooks groups. I really thought this was a great way to keep up with people that have similar interest to myself and what they are reading and working on.