LibraryLadybug

Week 9 Thing 23

2008-07-29T16:43:00.000-07:00

It is hard to say what I liked best about this class. From the Life Long Learner points at the beginning to e-books at the end, there were so many great things. One thing I am most glad about this class is learning how to set up a blog. I still need to learn more about it, but...I like having some of my RSS feeds now too. I hadn't realized there were the different online word processors. too. That is something I may definitely start using. The online image generators are something I'm glad to learn about also. I want to make podcasts of my booktalks. I think I may really can use them for AIS library. I did wish at times that maybe the class should cover fewer things (maybe be divided into two) and take a little longer with each "week" so that we could actually have more time to create something with the image creators, learn how to actually make a podcast or something, but maybe that's for another class! I understand this class was really more for the "information of it',and that has been great! I am really glad I did it! I think we'd better sign me up for Web 2.1!

Week 9 Things 20, 21, 22

2008-07-29T15:41:00.000-07:00

I had never really played around on You Tube before, but I really enjoyed seeing some of the old commercials from the 70's, and the toys from the 70's, etc. That brought back some memories! I loved Conan the Librarian! March of the Librarians was so all of us at TLA! The Librarian Manifesto really makes you think.

As far as podcasts, again, I haven't listened to them or downloaded them. I really didn't get how to operate in the Educator one, but it looks like it had some good information. I did find one I wanted to to download in Podcast Alley. I downloaded the Learn Spanish Coffeebreak into my Google Reader. I still hope to learn it someday! I still want to make podcasts of some booktalks.

I am so glad to get all the sites for e-books and audio books too. The World Fair has a lot of good ones, and LibriVox is good too. Most of the ones I saw actually find the book on the Project Gutenberg.
I have spent a long time today looking at these today. I am still marvelling at the amount of stuff out there and what all you could do with it.

Week 8 Thing 19

2008-07-21T17:49:00.000-07:00

I cataloged 11 of my books in Library Thing tonight. It was fun to look back at some of my old favorites, and it makes me want to read them again (some of them I've already read several times-but hey!) I want to read Gone With the Wind, Christy, Jane Eyre, and more again-but I guess that's why they're still classics or at least still popular after all these years. Library Thing is a great way to keep up with what books you have if you have too many to count or keep up with!

Week 8 Thing 18

2008-07-21T14:30:00.000-07:00

I tried the Zohos and the GoogleDocs. Again, some neat tools I learned about! The Zohos seemed to be very user friendly, but I'm kind of a Google person. I'm guessing GoogleDocs is still kind of new, and they'll tweak it and make it more user friendly before long. I may use try both again before I decide which I want to use for sure.

Week 7 Things 16 & 17

2008-07-21T13:13:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed seeing what people do with wikis. I do want to set up a wiki or blogs and see if I can get students to participate in online "bookclubs" or whatever. Not quite sure how to get that started though. Any ideas out there?
I did post onto our Sandbox.

Week 6 Thing 15

2008-07-11T10:04:00.000-07:00

Wow! all these things this week are overwhelming to me. There's just so much more out there, than I'll ever have time to look at and use, but it's great to know it's there if I need it. Creative Commons is a good thing. I liked the cute online comic book about copyright too. It is daunting for me to think about 'What is coming down the road?' with all this interactive internet going on now. The tools available to us are awesome though!

Week 6

2008-07-11T09:40:00.000-07:00

I have looked at Del.icio.us and Technorati, plus Fickr. I think I understand what tagging is, but I just can't quite see how to do it. Somebody tell me how I'm missing it!
Melanie

Week 5 Thing 12

2008-06-30T15:44:00.000-07:00

I have created my search tool with Rollyo. I kind of relate that to submitting all my recipes I make to be put into a cookbook our church made. All my recipes were in one book!

Week 5 Thing 11

2008-06-30T15:08:00.001-07:00

I found the site Lulu which lets you publish your own books and other things. It looks good, but it's foreign currency. I have had students ask me before about publishing a book, but I didn't really know off-hand where to tell them to "go." Does anyone know of another site out there that's here in the states that let's you do that? Lulu also says it's free with no publication fees, but of course, nothing's for free, but I don't think it was that expensive. Any comments?
I was also looking at Library 2.0. It looks good too, but I need to explore it a little further to see if I want to "join up."

Week 5 Thing 10

2008-06-30T14:48:00.000-07:00

I looked at some of the image generators today. I had to reload some of my pictures onto our computer from a CD for some reason, but I finally used Captioner ( I found through the FD Toys Generator) and put a caption on this picture of our dog. I could really have fun with this!

Week 4 Thing 9

2008-06-27T15:43:00.000-07:00

I found some neat librarian feeds. I did one from the Librarian's Internet, the Shifted Librarian, and I can't wait to look at Library Thing some more. There are so many more (some with book reviews too). I even found an interesting article in one of them about some books that were returned to a library in Peru after 100 years! Apparently Chili had taken them during the war in the 1800's. Wow!

Week 4 Thing 8

2008-06-27T14:56:00.000-07:00

I chose to use Google Reader for my news feeds. I kind of like being able to have the news come to me, especially if I don't have time to sit down and watch it at the time it's on TV, not to mention all the cool library related feeds. I found out very quickly that I set up too many feeds and won't be able to read all the articles, but I can always delete more (I already did some) when I take a little more time and see the ones I want to keep.

Week 3 Things5,6,&7

2008-06-16T14:00:00.000-07:00

This is a fun week. I'm really interested in the Trading Card Maker site. I'd like to make a trading card for myself or use Poster Maker to make some posters for the library. We could use sites like this to maybe have students do a trading card or a poster for a book they liked, etc. There are such neat things teachers can do with their students in the classroom too. I like the cluster maps too.

2008-06-13T08:36:00.000-07:00

Week 1
Thing 1 and 2
I am excited about this class. I think it will take a lot of time, but even the time I've spent already was fun-setting up a blog. It is fun to learn new things. I hope to learn how to make podcasts, and do booktalks on them-or even some kind of slide show or videos. I would like to maybe set up online "bookclubs" on a wiki (if I can get students to do it), where we could all read and discuss books-not necessarily the same one at the same time). Personally, as I went through the life-long learning tutorial, I realize there are some things I do already, and more I want to do. I am working on a Spanish program (on CDs) that we bought for our daughter when she started taking Spanish in high school. I am learning some things, but I'm afraid I won't remember it very much if I'm not able to practice it. It's fun anyway!