Liblogary

Changes with our district

2011-11-11T17:02:00.001-08:00

I am happy to say that our district no longer blocks YouTube and Google. Thank you to our director of technology!

Thing #23

2010-11-12T19:35:00.000-08:00

I have enjoyed learning about the 23 things. There is so much more to learn about each of these 23 things . My main goal was to learn as much about web 2.0 as possible, have fun, and to finish before CSLA starts web 3.0!

I work at an alternative school, and I feel that one way to develop rapport with my students is to understand how they use technology to communicate. I used my web 2.0 tools when I was in charge of creating a Yearbook DVD last year.I
I will continue to work on my blog, and read other library blogs.Our county office of education blocks my blog, Gmail, YouTube, and many other educational sites. Eventually I hope to work with our county office of education to unblock some of these valuable sites. I plan to continue to work on the the liblogary, and try to keep up with the latest web 2.0 tools for education.Our school bought IXL math, Brainpop, Discovery Education, California Streaming and Study Island. I was in charge of imlementing all of this software. I put each student into their class rosters, created passwords for teachers and students, and showed the teachers how to use the software.It took a while to figure everything out and I gained the confidence to do this with School Library Learning web 2.0.

Thanks so much to CSLA and to our CSLA cheerleaders who helped keep me going! I decided to finally finish everything before the CSLA conference which started today. I plan to attend the conference tomorrow.
See you tomorrow!

Kandice Goodman
Library Technician
Highlands Campus Library

Thing #22

2010-11-12T19:26:00.000-08:00

I checked out the websites recommended for online books. I liked the free online books, especially the banned books on the Online Book Place from the University of Pennsylvania.. I work at an alternative school and kids there are interested in banned books. I agree because some of my favorite books have been banned!

Audio books are great for ELL and special ed students too.

Thing 21

2010-11-07T17:09:00.000-08:00

I guess technically this is a podcast but is it still a podcast with the video?
I looked at several podcast websites. podcast.com had a weekly subscrition to Obama's weekly address. I registered with voicethreads to make podcasts. There was trouble with the Educational Podcast Network and Odeo was under construction.

Thing # 20 embed a you tube video

2010-08-14T19:47:00.001-07:00

For thing #20 I decide to start with this really cool and funny video of librarians doing Gaga! I was surprised at how easy it was to embed a video.

Librarians Do Gaga

2010-08-14T19:45:00.000-07:00

Thing # 19 Looking at Library Thing

2010-08-14T19:09:00.000-07:00

I signed up for an account with Library Thing. I cataloged 5 books into the system. Each book took a few seconds to catalog. If the economy declines even more, Library Thing could save a lot of money in a school setting as cataloging programs are pricey
.I added some of my personal books from my home library just to get a feel for how it works. it is a very user friendly website.The Library Thing account I set up is http://www.librarything.com/home/kandicegoodman

Thing #17

2010-08-09T21:14:00.000-07:00

I went to PB wiki and to the sandbox to practice. I posted an idea on Calcurriculum connections that maybe a wiki would be useful for teachers to collaborate and exchange ideas for using some of the software at our school. One example is california streaming that is found at californiastreaming.org. This is a wonderful way to teach using streaming video clips . Teachers and staff could use this wiki to share ideas and review the best documentary videos.

Another use of this calcurriculum wiki would be to use as a book review wiki for students and staff.

Thing # 18

2010-08-09T21:04:00.000-07:00

This week I have been exploring some free web based applications for students working on word documents and spreadsheets. I first looked at Google docs and was truly impressed. There were templates for letters to apply for college, cover letters for resumes, resumes, templates for business cards. I then realized that my district has blocked Google apps and gmail! What a tremendous disappointment. I explored zoho writer and am hoping that website is not blocked too. I think it has fewer useful templates but still could be used for teaching computer applications. I will post more about thing #18 when I check to see if it is blocked on our school computers.

Thing #16 Looking at Wikis

2010-04-11T20:16:00.000-07:00

I looked at the wikis recommended. The first wiki was the SJCPL Subject Guides which is a pathfinder wiki developed by St. Joseph County . Public Library I checked out the Booklover's Wiki, which had recommendations which are also popular in my library.I took a look at the school library section of the blogging librarians wiki.The most interesting and useful wiki was the teacherlibrarianwiki. This wiki had some great open source resources. This wiki is a helpful booklist site. I found two teen websites with recommendations of books that I have in my library. I will direct my teen readers to these sites. I also gained some new ideas for books I would like to see in our library.

Thing # 15 Week #40

2008-09-29T19:55:00.000-07:00

My Thoughts from the OCLC Next Space Newsletter "Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries?"

Laptops, digital cameras and I pods for checkout? I love the new web 2.0 concepts for the future of our libraries. I am library technician for a School Library that has wi-fi but no laptops! The IT department is not at all open to allowing My Space or any social networking. They block Flickr, which could be used so creatively in education. .Even though our teachers would love to have You Tube for educational purposes, our IT department is so concerned about safety that they block it. Students are not even allowed to check email! I am just grateful that they don’t block blogs and Wikipedia! The collective intelligence from Wikipedia, and other wikis is also exciting for the future of research.
I want a student and teacher centered library where you can watch You Tube, post pictures on a Flickr account, create blogs and wikis, and even check your email. I would like for our students to have training on how and where to use Google verses electronic sources. I want to offer more online classes, and to try to understand all of the copyright issues that come with online classes and other web 2.0 tools. Reading the Horizon Report 2008, inspired me to encourage more creative uses of web 2.0 in education with digital videos, photo essays and blogs rather than having students writing long research papers.
I cannot relate as much to the three dimensional world of web 3.0 that Dr. Wendy Shultz describes, with “Second Life”, probably because I have not used any of those web3.0 tools, and I am still trying to understand the many facets of Web 2.0!
I enjoyed reading “To a Temporary Space in Time,” where Dr. Wendy Shultz paints a picture of a Web 4.0 library as a sanctuary, a quiet place of meditation, a luxurious experience, “away from the technohustle” with comfortable leather chairs and good light. Her description is close to the library of my dreams.

Week ? Thing 14

2008-08-20T17:05:00.000-07:00

I have been experimenting with technorati. I think the feature I like about technorati, is searching blogs with keywords. I think it is useful, but not as useful to me personally as delicious.With the growth of the blogosphere, I think that this will be an extremely important tool for the future of blogging and research.

Thing 13 week ?

2008-08-20T16:52:00.000-07:00

Discovering delicious was, so far, the most exciting part of School Library Learning 2.0.I don't know how I ever did without it! I am the kind of person who ends up with too many bookmarks and they are unorganized. Delicious allowed me to tag each favorite and now I can find anything. When I have free time, I just do to delicious and start reading from various tags or categories.Reading other librarian's delicious bookmarks has given me so many new resources.
This is taking me longer than it should but I love web 2.0 at this pace, because I am trying to really understand each thing!

2008-08-04T17:28:00.001-07:00

Thing # 12

2008-07-31T16:08:00.000-07:00

I am playing around with Rollyo, but I am not sure I really understand it yet. There seem to be so many ads for mortgages etc. I will continue to experiment, and hope it will be a good resource after I give it a chance.

Thing #11

2008-07-30T17:57:00.000-07:00

I am almost halfway done with School Library Learning 2.0!! I looked at some other fellow library 2.0 bloggers. The Longhorn Librarian suggested checking out School Tube and I am happy it exists because we miss so much at our school by having You Tube blocked!
I looked at library genius and decided to add a dog to my avatar. I liked her Book Club ideas, especially the link to "Ten Ways to Really Spice up Book Club Meetings." All of the suggestions are not appropriate for middle school, but they are great for a group of adult friends, and some of the suggestions are great for middle school book clubs.
I checked out Library Musings and liked the avatar with a tree and a birdhouse. I liked that she was on #17 but also had skipped around. I have also skipped around a bit! This blog gave me an idea for adding information links to my "liblogary."I plan to check out more of these blogs for ideas.

Thing #10 Fun With Flowers and Image Generators

2008-07-30T17:38:00.000-07:00

Thing #10 was fun to play around with. First, I made a fl0wer READ sign with Image Chef Image Generator website. Then I used one of my own photos and with the help of Blingee, I generated a butterfly in the middle of the flowers!

SEE PICTURES BELOW.

Computer Generated Magic!

2008-07-30T17:32:00.000-07:00

Glitter Graphics

Generating Images

2008-07-30T16:58:00.000-07:00

Things #8 and #9

2008-07-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

Last month I set up some library blog feeds such as School Library Media Blog, and School Library Journal Blog. Having these come into the Google Reader is so convenient and I tend to read more. I have also subscribed to several other RSS feeds such as Common Dreams and the Brad Blog.

technology post , things 6 and 7

2008-07-30T16:32:00.000-07:00

For #5,6 and 7 of the 23 things I spent a lot of time playing with flickr, photobucket( It was not blocked at my school) and even picasa. I like picasa and flickr the best. After exploring photos, I set up an account on igoogle. This has consolidated many of my reading, blogging and emailing activities. I set up google reader account rather than the bloglines account. I was going to several websites and 3 emails Now I only go to google, and I love the convenience.

Week #15, Thing #5

2008-03-21T15:09:00.000-07:00

I sent pictures from picasa. Thanks for the suggestion, library mum. I am going to experiment for a while with importing pictures. You have to click on California Sunsets to get the latest pictures. It may take forever to do the 23 things, but I am already learning so much!

California Sunsets

2008-03-21T15:03:00.000-07:00

Thing #5, Week #12

2008-03-02T15:26:00.000-08:00

I am still trying to understand how to upload and post photos. If Picasa is not blocked at my school, I will be able to post photos tomorrow on a much faster computer. I will then send photos to my liblogary blog.

Still on thing #5 , week #9

2008-02-10T15:34:00.000-08:00

I cannot believe how much time has past since I tried playing with flickr. I need to work on this, but it is difficult since flickr is still blocked at my school district. Does anyone know of a different site to post photos that is not typically blocked at schools?

Still Week #3 thing #5

2007-12-24T17:13:00.000-08:00

Happy Christmas Eve.
I sent a picture from my documents (on my excruciatingly slow windows 98 laptop) and then joined Flickr and posted my first picture. I was successful in sending the jpg from my computer to this blog . I have not figured out how to send a picture from Flickr to this blog. When I get back from Winter Holidays, I will ask the school district's technical director if he can "unblock" this website. It could be so useful with technology and art projects at our school.

Week 3 Thing #5

2007-12-20T14:52:00.000-08:00

Hello fellow School Library 2.0 lifelong learners! I have had trouble experimenting with Flickr because our school blocks this website. I wonder if there is another site for pictures that will not be blocked?

Week 1 and 2 Thing 1, 2, 3, 4

2007-12-12T16:44:00.000-08:00

I am looking forward to the challenge of Web 2.0 Lifelong Learning. I have listed my goals and one of the first will be learning to podcast book reviews from the middle school students at our library.Another goal I have is to eventually have a website for our library which has a link to the art created by our students. We all learn better when the experience is not stressful, so I hope to enjoy this learning experience. One of the obstacles will be time, but I think it will be fun ( 7.5) and I will find the time. For starters, I will need a microphone and some willing kids to podcast book reviews!