Thing 17 rollyo

I like rollyo but del.icio.us is sort of the same to me. Of course the difference is that rollyo is shared .I have created my rollyo search list and made it public.http://www.rollyo.com/ I have found several cooking with kids sites and I will add more later.

Thing 16

After viewing the Commoncraft video, I understood more about wikis. I like the idea that a wiki site could be used instead of email for better coordination, especially with student projects. Not all students have email so this would be a useful tool to use at school during class. With my Career Investigaton classes, we research careers, salaries, education, etc. so I can see that a wiki would be useful if a student couldn't find his/her information. He could post on our wiki and another student could share the information he found. This could be used for class or individual student discussions , planning, sharing ideas and research projects. The teacher could post questions on the wiki before class and just have the students go to the wiki and begin at his or own speed. I will definitely utilize wikis this next school year. I also posted on sandbox with a few comments.

Chloe Elizabeth

Just for fun, another picture of our grand-dog.

Thing 15

One of the perspectives I read by Rick Anderson, "Away from the Iceberg" says it very simply. He lists 3 ideas. #1. "Just in Case" collection; we can no longer expect a library to have everything on hand . Now being able to have access to everything, i.e. digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. is crucial. In my Career Investigation classes, I rely heavily on the internet for career research. I have noticed that if I put a textbook in front of a student, they are automatically turned off, but if I put the student in front of a computer with the same information , the student will read the information. I think in this age of technology , students are more comfortable in front of a computer, as they have been brought up in the age of technology.

#2. Reliance of user education. Too much training is involved when one person( a librarian) has hundreds of trainees. "People are looking for "one button commands such as Flickr's "Blog This", and easy to use programs like Google Page Creator that offer patrons promising models for this kind of user -centric services." As a teacher, I have enough trouble keeping ahead of all the new technology so the more user- friendly it is, the better for all.

#3. "The Come to Us" model of library service was and is good for those privileged enough to have access to a good library. "Ways must be found bring library services to patrons rather than insisting they come to the library. Placing library services and contents in the user 's preferred environment , i.e. the web, is more conducive to actual use of information. Library services need to shift direction and acknowledge and adapt to radical fundamental change."

I agree because many of my students have no transportation . They only access a library at school. I know that this year, our library removed books that were perhaps 30 years old. Classics are always necessary, but there were many books that were totally outdated and needed to be removed. The internet has new information daily so it is up to date.

Thing 14

After viewing the technorati video and its info. I found that tags are like bookmarks but more for organization and also for sharing with others on the internet. Tag clouds show how much interest there is. The bigger the cloud, the more the interest. Blog directories don't necessarily tell you how popular the blog is. You personally might find it interesting, but to the majority of blog readers out there, it might not be. Under popular blogs, there were items pertaining to politics, weather, etc., not some things I might necessarily care about since I have my own lists.I typed in School Library Learning 2.0 and found 246 sites. I think technorati could help me find interesting blogs and tags would relate to my specific interests. In school, it would benefit me by my not having to search thousands of sites, I could just look for tags and it would be easier to find things.

Thing 13/University of Tennessee and Julia Child

I absolutely LOVE del.icio.us. You should see the number of bookmarks I have on my school computer. And I have always wanted to be able to access either the bookmarks from my home computer at work and vice versa. This would have also saved me some heartache when we switched over to our laptops in May. Evidently I didn't export my favorites correctly , thus losing them all at that time. I redid the ones I could remember and found newer ones,too. Now this is a safe way to keep them and have them organized. Thanks so much for this site. I have tagged all my cooking sites and will finish tagging on del.icio.us when school starts back. I graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B.S. in Home Economics. I used to watch Julia Child for my home ec. classes.

Thing 12

I commented on 5 blogs: 1.Blogging- Davis Style 2. Day dream in technicolor 3. Alurophile 4. Belle of Books and 5. BJ's Bubble ( at least I think I did! I am not sure everything I do on this blog gets done correctly but I am working on it).One important point came from "How to comment like a queen or king". It's important to make meaningful comments or it's a waste of time to read it. A second important point is from "Blogging 101", using your real name or an alias. I feel sort of uncomfortable using my real name at this point because of internet safety . I think for me , at this time, an alias will be better. On my Google blog search, I am interested in cooking because of what I teach so I now have blog alerts. One is The Hippie Gourmet and another is Cooking with Daisy. These are fun and informative. I am always searching for fun things for my students to keep them actively engaged.