Wiki

Talk about keeping it short and simple. Wikis are simple to use. I like the idea of using a wiki to get/provide information and ideas for a group. Some of the public library wikis that I explored had interesting community notes on places to eat or events in the area. These are helpful for the community as well as persons visiting or new to the area. I thought in school it could be used by teachers and students to do creative writing--especially doing a progressive story where one person writes something and the rest of the group contributes until they have a complete story. Also, I thought teachers/librarians could post ideas and resources utilized with particular units of study and grades. Another way to use it in the library is to compose collaborative lists of special books that students ask for such as "scary books." Something else I read was to use wikis in the catalog but I wonder about inappropriate remarks. http://heb23-favoritethings.wikispaces.com/Favorite+Book
http://heb23-favoritethings.wikispaces.com/Favorite+Movie

Delicious

I went to the education tag on Delicious. What appeared was that there were tons of resources on the topic--just like I thought. What I liked was that I could keep narrowing the search. I narrowed it to science, then natural resources. While I was searching through some sites to see the content and relevancy, I found a site for one of the third grade teachers that I think she can use with this 6 weeks science unit! Although I didn't create an account myself, I may in the near future.

Rollyo

Maneuvering through Rollyo to set up my personal searchroll proved very cumbersome. The site ran very, very slow. The Internet connection was broken many times and I had to reconnect time after time. Finally, I was successful. I do think that creating a searchroll is a convenient method to research a topic on several sites at once. My searchroll, titled What or Who is mainly for students to access info on a topic such as a particular battle or person. You can reach it at http://rollyo.com/libraryb/what_or_who/ . My account is http://www.rollyo.com/libraryb/

Image generators

Play Time #5 has been the most time consuming module for me so far but ironically the one I found the most interesting. I went through many sites that I would have liked to use but they weren't free. One interesting site was http://bighughlabs.com/education.php. Here, you could register students so that no email was needed and also advertisements could be blocked. In the end, I used http://comicsgtripgenerator.com/ because it was simple and free. You can see the result is the Bugs Bunny poster on the right.

I set up a book shelf in LibraryThing. Please view it at http://www.librarything.com/home/libraryb2

bloglines

Created a blogline account and added 10 newsfeeds mostly about books and libraries. I liked the Blogline Search Tool. I can see how this saves time--having the information come to me and being able to quickly sift through things. Blogline will be helpful in instructor/student searching and sharing. It's like a one place stop and shop. I tried Publisher's Weekly, Shifted Librarian, USA Today.com books-Top Stories, Books news, reviews & Author interviews guardian.co.uk, and Librarian.net. My account is http://www.bloglines.com/public/libraryb and http://www.bloglines.com/blog/libraryb

flickr

This afternoon I posted a picture on Flickr. You can see it here. This was taken at the Gaylord during Christmas break. My daughter and I went to see the ice sculptures of one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books--How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadybrooklibrary

I am creating this blog as part of a requirement for an online class. This is my first attempt at posting.

I have been a librarian for 15 years. It is my intention that this blog will be used by students to create postings about books they are reading and questions about databases or research.