Thing 10 wiki

The wiki video was a good explanation.  It seemed so simple but the sites I checked weren't!  I edited the 23things wiki.  While I just added stuff, this practice wiki is alot of rambling.  A wiki with a defined purpose would be more helpful to the participants.  (This was great for us.)  I think wiki's are too unreliable to be used for research. I think students should be told they can read them for background info, but not to cite them in their research.  Reading list wikis for school libraries and wikis for class projects could be good uses in the school setting.

Thing 9 on line collaboration

Didn't spend much time on these.  On-line collaboration tools have their place and something to remember ?!! for the future.  The Google one appeared easier. At least it was easier for me to get into and leave a comment as well as get into the actual text and change.  I was able to leave a comment in zoho but couldn't get into the document even though I had permission. Probably wasn't doing something right.  

Thing 8

Well, I bit the bullet and created a flickr account.  Seems like you can't do much if you don't have one!  Anyway I should have one with all the pictures I do.  It's just that on a 56k modem uploading takes awhile. So I have a yahoo account, a flickr account, and a bighuge labs account!

I created a database with the lazybase.  I didn't do much with it but I can see some handy personal uses for it like a reading list since the library can't tell me what I've read.  This way my list is available wherever I have a computer.  Books to Read 

I did the big huge lab thing with the photo mosaic.  I like it.  It could create some cool prints of an event that would be easy to share. I also found that it didn't work in Safari so I moved to firefox.  I couldn't get the code for the mosaic to work so I saved the mosaic to my desktop and then uploaded it as the picture you see here.  These are all MY photos too!

Blogging

I took my newfound knowledge about blogs to create a blog for our bank bookclub.  I wanted to use  the name of the bank and our coffee/travel group but found out I couldn't as the bank has some strict rules about the use of their name and the clubs name.  I thought the blog would be a great way to inform people about the books we are reading and a chance to share comments about the books especially if they didn't make the book club day.  The blog has only been up a couple days so not many know about it yet.  Will let you know how it goes.  

Click the here to get to the book blog.

Thing 7 Communication tools

It isn't the email overload as much as it is the listserve overload.!  I do put messages into folders for projects that need archiving. The listserve messages are usually scanned and deleted except for those that I want to follow through to the links that are there--that's what takes time to read.

We use email in our media center for online ordering and for scheduling problems.  Of course I use it to communicate to sales people as well as others in the office.

I have not done instant messaging. I watched my daughter do it when she was in college.

Nor have  I done text messaging.  It's one of those add on features on the cell phone that I don't have a good reason to pay for. So I'm not into all the shortcut words that are used!

Web conferencing I have done quite a bit of doing Minitex webinars as well as some online seminars from Adobe.  This has been a great way to self inservice on my schedule.

Thing 6 on line image generators

This would be a fun activity for kids to create.  You could create trading cards on books.  This came from big huge labs. bighugelabs.com
  This came from imagechef.com. They have good, easy to follow directions for creating the images and good directions for posting them to a blog or elsewhere.

Not sure why I ended up with blue, underlined  type above.

These image generators could be a lot of fun and time consuming. But a great place to create a project that involves creativity at no cost to the students or teacher.  I could see using them for creating eyecatchers for bullentin boards as well. Of course, if you had a library blog you could use them there.

www.Toondoo.com allows you to create comic strips. What a cool idea for English!  I didn't want to create another account that I may not use  so I didn't create a comic strip.

Thing 5 Mashup

Spell with Flickr was fun. Has some possible uses.  I read thru the 10 Best Flickr mashups and think I could get hooked on the picture Sudoku as I'm already hooked on the numbers one.  I think these things are for people with too much time on their hands!  Offers a chance to be creative and to exercise the brain but so far, I'm lost as to a function in the library/classroom.