Thing #21

I will be giving a workshop on Monday, Aug 3 on Podcasting so I will post something here once that inservice is complete.
I have looked at Photostory before and feel confident that I can make one with no problems. I would like to do one on the current Bluebonnet books as an introduction to the program for the 2009-2010 school year.

Thing #20

I am VERY frustrated! You Tube was very easy to use and find videos, however Teacher Tube was HORRIBLE! I tried logging in to Teacher Tube on 4 different computers and all of them would load part of the site and then BAM!! You would get a notification that Internet Explorer had encountered an error and had to close. Then you would have to shut down the whole computer before you could get it to unfreeze. I noticed that it would have it's issues when it was trying to access a ..................googleads/xxx.html.
I know that Teacher Tube has many great videos and lots of possiblities for use but this has been a terrible experience.

I have tried everything I know on my computer to try and solve the issues but nothing has worked, maybe it was on the Teacher Tube site and I will try again later.

So I have no video to post from Teacher Tube since I could not get that site to load,
however I really can relate the the Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblrRs3fkSU
I have included a link above because I can not seem to embed the video. On my page all I see is a box with small box in the top left corner.

I think this would be something to share with faculty just for them to think about at first.

Thing #19

The Web 2.0 awards have awarded many of the sites we have looked at in these 23 things. I use iGoogle and have a page set up that gives me all the gadgets and tools that I like in one place. This will be very helpful next year during school since I will not have to look around at all the different websites to get the information I need.
I have created a Delicious account, a Library Thing account, used Google Docs to share and edit files, used Flickr, looked at Google Earth and Google maps, and used Rollyo and Youtube.
All of these are execellent sites and will be very valuable, I will just need more time to really use them and become familar with them, but they all offer tools to make our lives easier.
After looking at the list the one I really looked at was Wikispaces. I created 2 wikis, 1 for the AR comittee at our school and one for the Bronco Lunch Bunch which is our book club at school. I plan on using the AR wiki as our virtual meeting place for the committe to collaborate and for the Lunch Bunch to use to discuss the books we are reading as a group.
I like the fact that I can have multiple wikis all under my account and that I can chose to make them public or private under one account.

Thing #18

I have heard about Open Office before and I do like the office products, however I already use the Google docs and do like it. I am planning on using this to edit our AR folder and logs with the AR committee. I see this as being a great tool for collaboration. The students can use this when they are doing their collaboration for research.
Some of the advantages to using an online tool is that you can see the changes or addtions/deletions instantly. I know that many of my teachers have a hard time saving an attachment to their computer and then trying to use the markup tools in office is well impossible and then asking them to attach the file and send it back is really too many steps.
A disadvantage is that you will have to register and then a short training will be needed to use the sharing.
I do feel that this is similar to a wiki, but just centers around one document.

Thing #17

Rollyo is wonderful. I see this as a wonderful tool for teachers to use in the classroom and for librarians. I created a blog roll called Library Resources in which I put all the websites I go to for lesson plan ideas and other resources to use in the library. Now when I search for a lesson on the Dewey Decimal system for example, I can quickly search all the different sites I included instead of going to each one and trying to remember where I found them.

I plan on setting a Roll for Texas sites that our 4th grade teachers can use when they do their research unit on Texas and one for dinosaurs that our 2nd graders use when they do their dinosaur project. There is truly no limit to the things you can do with this. Personally it will be great to create one for recipes to search the recipe sites I use most frequently.

I put a link to my Rollyo on my blog and you can search for different lesson ideas right here.

Thing #16

Wikis are wonderful. I can see so many applications for using a wiki. One way is for our CIT (Campus Improvement Team) to create a wiki just for the different discussions we have monthly. We do not take formal notes in the meetings and this would be a great way to have the grade level leaders go back to their groups for the input that our Principal needs. Each group could just cite it on the wiki and it would cut down on the emailing back and forth.
I can also see this being used with our Bronco Lunch Bunch groups. The lunch bunch is our book club. Students, parents and teachers just need to have read the book by the date and then we bring our lunches into the library for an extended period and eat and discuss the books. I am thinking we could have the students create a wiki entry for each book centered around a question or two prior to the lunch bunch date.
The possibilities for wikis are limitless.

Thing #15

Tom Storey says the embodiment of Web 2.0 principles are simplicity, rich interactivity, user participation, collective intelligence, self-service, novel and remixed content. In a previous post I defined Web 2.0 as anything that invites participation from the global community. I think that as librarians we need to be open to the possibilites that Web 2.0 provide for us.

In Into a New World of Librarianship by Michael Stephens he says we need to embrace these Web 2.0 tools and that this librarian recognizes how services might be enhanced by the Read/Write web and how new services might be born in a climate of collaboration.

I think the future of libraries will revolve around Web 2.0 tools. We will have to listen to the needs of our patrons and shift the way we create our spaces and collections, especially to include the interaction of what the new Web 2.0 will have to offer.Librarians will have to become involved with and engaged in these tools ourselves..