Web 2.0 Winners

I looked at a site called I'm Cooked. It is like YouTube, but just for cooking. I watched a short video of a three year old boy helping his grandmother make fruit smoothies. He was so excited and proud that he was cooking. What I really liked was the 12 minute video on how to make a video and upload it to the site. This site is very easy to search and use. It could be used for a class cooking project. It would be good for a writing assignment on processes.

Wiki's

Sorry, I'm a bit out of order now. Libraries are using Wiki's for reading clubs, community resource lists, and best practices (like a library wikipedia). I would like to try using a wiki with my students to create an updated library mission statement. I still can't decide which would be better for book discussion: wiki or blog ?

Zoho Writer

I just published a Library To Do List using Zoho Writer. It was very easy to use. I like the idea of having access to my documents from any computer anywhere. It was extremely easy to post the list to my blog. 2.0 stuff works together amazingly well ! I love it!!

Library To Do List

Library To Do List

1. Weed
2. Discard weeded items
3. Find MARC records for Spanish guided reading sets
4. Process four new book orders
5. Shelve books
6. Shelve more books
7. Straighten shelves
8. Straighten shelves again
9. Lesson plan
10. Finish spending supply budget

Library 2.0 -- My Thoughts

My favorite article was "Away from the icebergs" by Rick Anderson. He listed three "icebergs" to steer away from which all involve letting go of the old way of doing things. To really embrace Library 2.0 you have to stand back and look at your library through your patrons' eyes. You have to understand what they need and want right now--not what was important five years ago. After exploring all of this 2.0 "stuff", I really like it and have a better understanding of why it is so important to provide 2.0 applications to our patrons. A lot of 2.0 is better for secondary libraries, but I think wikis are very appropriate at the elementary level.

Delicious

I like Delicious because I have access to my book marks on any computer and my phone. It was also very easy to import my existing book marks into Delicious and add tags for them. I added the Delicious badge to my blog--I actually have 67 book marks, but they are marked private. I need to go through and "unlock" some of them. It is interesting to see who else has the same websites as me. This would be a great tool for teachers to use if they want their students to use a list of specific websites for research.

Rollyo and Play Time

Rollyo lets you create your own personal search box enabling you to search mulitiple sites simultaneously--which is a huge time saver! Very easy to set up and place on your blog.

I've enjoyed learning about these programs and playing with them. Fun!!