Saturday, February 13, 2010

Social Bookmarking and Wikis

After visiting Delicious and setting up an account I realized that I should have done it at school instead of from home since most of the sites I wanted to bookmark are at school. Almost instantaneously I realized that that was why I needed Delicious, so that after I get the websites from school added I will be able to access them from home. Clever. Once I get the information from the two computers together I'll be able to plan lessons from home much more easily. I'm looking forward to that.

Moving on to wikis, I am very familiar with wikis and have always had a concern about the fact that anyone can edit anything on a true wiki. That is why I have a modified wiki on my school website where students can add to their classmates' comments, but can't change them. Kiera, go look at what your new second-favorite movie is on our HEB 23 Wiki and you'll see what I mean.

Friday, February 12, 2010

LibraryThing

I really enjoyed using this site and created an account to keep track of my autographed books. So far I have added a couple dozen hardback books to the account. I'm using my new avatar as my profile shot. If you want to check it out you can access it at http://www.librarything.com/profile/ElizabethDoyle.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Playing around with image generators



I've explored many image and text generators today. Have had some great success with a couple and some frustration with others. My greatest frustration is clicking on a site that I think will provide a service and getting an ad-filled site with multiple other links posted and no indication as to which one does what I went to the site to do. When that happened I just moved on and found something less complicated to use. I'm posting my two favorite products from today's exercise here - my cartoon avatar and a book cover. I hope you like them. Be sure to read the speech bubble in the book cover. It reflects how I feel about all the cool Web 2.0 possibilities and the lack of opportunities to use them with students.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

RSS Feeds

I've been adding several RSS feeds to my Blogline account this past week and have found some wonderful sites. Today my husband told me about a show he heard on KERA radio that was an interview with an author of a book about libraries. He only heard part of it but thought I would enjoy it. He gave me the title of the show and a short Google search later gave me the radio broadcast to listen to. I've added the RSS from that show to my account. Go to My RSS Feeds on the right and choose the KERA feed, then go to Feb. 4's Think show and listen to the host, Krys Boyd, interview Marilyn Johnson, author of This Book is Overdue, How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. It will make you very proud to be in our profession.