Week 6 Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati

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The first thing we are supposed to do in this task is watch a 12 minute video on del.icio.us.

The link that takes us there, takes us to an error message. This blog is on hold because the bandwidth has been exceeded. Please contact your blog provider. I did e-mail the person in the Help box. I will spend a bit of time seeing if I can figure it out without the video.

Hopefully, this will be fixed soon. I can't wait to see how I can use del.icio.us both at school and home.

Week 5 Thing #12 (again) Poetry Rollyo

Select...Poetry sitesSearch The Web

This is a rollyo I created with the poetry sites I want our students to use. It took just 10 minutes to create. I finally have mastered this. I wonder why it was so hard for me to catch on? I must have been making it harder than it is.

Week 5 Thing #12 Rollyo (finally)

Select...links by subjectSearch The Web

Finally, here is my Rollyo search. I can see how this will be useful in getting the websites organized much better. I still want to see the difference between Rollyo and Delicious. They may be nothing alike and may not even serve the same purpose. I will find that out soon.

I was not able to add the Rollyo icon to my tool bar. I do want to start using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, but will have to wait until I change change my favorites. Time is what I am always short on. Everything takes time.

Week 5 Thing # 11 Rollyo (NOT YET)

I know I should be working on Rollyo, but it intimidates me. I am wondering if
Virtual Learning Resource Center is basically the same thing? I guess tomorrow I will sit down and attempt to figure it out. Meanwhile, I am still playing on generator. I really must go back to my previous post and turn off the fireworks on my neon sign.
This LED sign below is just like the scrolling sign I have in our school library for announcements. Wait until I show the kids myvery own LED sign on my blog. They will be impressed. This LED sign was created on generator by toolator. I was trying to put this on my title bar, but just couldn't come up with a way to do it. It looks like that can handle just a picture upload.
I did join a ning, Teacher -Librarian. I even made a comment on a discussion post about this program , 23 Things. However, I am not a teacher, so I will join Library2.0 instead. I do enjoy reading all of the discussions. I subscribe to 4 listservs, Calib, Midnet,LM_NET, and YALSA. I am a devotee to all of these. There are such incredible people involved. The information they so freely give is much appreciated by me.

Week 5 Play (still I am playing)

I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk
I finally got my name in lights. It pays off to keep playing. Now a week later, I am back to turn off or down the sound of fireworks. I found this on generator.

Week 5 Play

I used Image Chef to create this wave.
I am still playing with the generators.

Week 5 Play Thing #10 and #11

Books to shelve
Originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/people/libladylib/

This is a photo I took of some books returned by a creative 8th grader. My T.A. loves the digital camera, so he took this picture before shelving the books. We have collaged two walls of a 10 x 10 reading area with his photograhs.

Play Week has been fun and frustrating. I created many posters and cards that I e-mailed to friends and family. The scissor sister's video is hilarious. Generator has so much it would be nearly impossible to see it all. I created my name in neon lights on www.notcelebrity.co.uk/ created by Joshua Sofaer. I was able to post it once to this site, but when editing, I was never able to get it to work again. I spent at least 6 hours trying.

I posted comments on J.T.'s library card and Queen of Heart's Queen's Quarters. Both sites are great. I loved librarycard's bead artwork and Queen of Hearts obviously loves Disneyland. I also posted a comment on Readingfool's blog. I found her blog on the yalsa listserv. She writes incredible book reviews. I love to read them and often use it for book orders. This is the first time I have commented on her blog. She is not in this program, but she uses blogger. In the short time I was editing this, I got an e-mail thanking me for my comments. That's great.

Last week on the mid-lit listserv, I posted a thank you to everyone reviewing ARC's for their time to post the reviews. I ended up with 2 brand new ARC books. This is the first time I have ever gotten ARC's and they both contacted me. I am excited to be able to do this.

Week 4 RSS Feeds and Newsreaders#8 and #9

I have spent many hours the past 4 days investigating the difference in the aggregators. I already subscribe to 6 feeds thru RealTime. I tried bloglines and Google Reader, but I really like RealTime better. I think it has a much cleaner look to it. The setup is easy to navigate.
I've used the RealTime with students for social studies a few times. I hope to use it more.
We use it for science current events all the time. The kids really like that. We like Reuters to easy search for an interesting item. RealTime says powered by feedster. I thought feedster was a reader also, still can't figure that out. I like how RealTime has a tickertape at the bottom of my screen.
The best thing I discovered and why it has taken me so long for this activity is that I found Connotea. This site organizes and shares your links to your references.. It can automatically add bibliographic information to your work. It is for scientists and academia, however it is changing to add more fields. Looks interesting enough to spend some time checking it out.

I subscribe to a few library newsreaders, blogs and such. I participate in Calib, Mid-lit, LM_NET and Yalsa. I subscribe to Blueweb'n newsletter and Education World newsletter. I love all of these and get such good information from all of them. Another fabulous resource is Infosearcher. It is a paid subscription newsletter put out by Pam Berger. I will never let this subscription expire. I attend her conferences when she is in our area. She is inspiring to everyone in the audience.