Week 5, Thing #11

I explored Del.icio.us, the social tagging Web 2 app. I created an account, added some links-- kid lit book vendors, awards, blogs. I figured out how to share this on my blog-- see the kid lit blogs I follow to the right. The whole social nature of Web 2 applications is intriguing, but I'm sure I don't totally get the value of sharing links and seeing what other people think are valuable links. As I added more links I wondered how I could organize them, grouping the blogs together, kit lit awards and annual best of lists together, etc.. Seems like you could only order them chronologically or alphabetically.

Week 5, Thing #10

Comic Strip Generator



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billboard from fd's flickr toys

Week 4, Thing #9

I created a bloglines account and added the blogs I'd been following "manually" for the past year. These include Educating Alice, I'm a Reading Fool, The Miss Rumphius Effect, Big A, little a, Kids Lit, and Voices from the Inglenook. I couldn't find a feed for A Fuse #8 Production, my favorite blog, which recently moved to the School Library Journal online website. I found Bloglines really easy to use, more so than Google reader.

Week 3, Thing #5

After exploring Flickr, I thought about what groups would be of interest to school librarians. Maybe bulletin board displays, lounge furniture and chairs and arrangement, shelving units. I searched for such groups but didn't find anything specific to K-12 school libraries. Maybe we could start one in the fall.

Week 3, Thing #6

I created this with Warholizer from fd's Flickr Toys using a photo of one of our foster kittens Nym.

Week 2, Thing #3

I created a blog a couple of years ago for a teacher who wanted have a book discussion blog for her middle school students. To experiment with Blogger we decided to do this over the summer with parents at the school. We selected a book, had them sign up and introduce themselves. The teacher had difficulty posting and gave up. Because it was the summer I wasn't able to help her use Blogger in person.

Week 2, Thing #3

I set up a book discussion blog for a teacher a couple of years ago with Blogger but it was unsuccessful in the execution. She wanted to experiment with discussing books using blogging, so we chose a book that was our county's one-book reads selection and asked parents at our school to sign-up.