Thing Twenty Three - A pat on the back for me!

The Sheepish Blogger has crossed the finish line!!!

1. Favorites: LibraryThing, TeacherLibrarian Wiki, TeacherTube and Del.icio.us

2. Lifelong learning? My entire professional life has been spent trying to meet the challenges that the ever changing world of libraries presents. I feel that I have been successful, but there is always room for improvement.

3. I was suprised that I was able to complete all the Things, especially when some of them seemed so out of my comfort zone.

4. Format and concept? Self paced, no actually meetings required were all beneficial. The timeframe was a bit challenging.

5. Participate again? Only during summer months or during staff development days.

6. I was humbled by this experience. There is so much more to know, and so little time to know it.

Thank you for all you did to provide this experience...

Thing Twenty Two - Ning Thing

Ning - another place to social network. I found the Teacher Librarian Ning interesting enough. Another resource to tap into when you need to bounce some new thoughts and plans around. Or maybe just help someone new to the profession with some guidance or suggestions on things that still work.

Some of the library related images were fun too. I wish I could have found something to illustrate the Ning Thing. Any ideas out there?

OK, that's about it for me. My brain is definately overloaded with all this Library 2.0 stuff.

Thing Twenty One - Podcast fun?

This mini-review of a few of the 2008-2009 Tayshas books is an example of a podcast created in Photostory. The script and audio was provided by a theater arts high school senior who volunteered to add her young, expressive voice to this basic example., rather than my senior voice that is anything but young! I can see myself putting together something fun and creative to start off the next school year. Maybe with leisure time this summer?

Now, I will say that I see the value in this, but this mini-project was a real time zapper. More than anything I had many issues with uploading to blogger.com. Since I refused to register to be able to get help (just couldn't deal with one more registration or login to remember), I tried uploading on a different computer and it seems to be working as expected.

So that's it for this one, podcast fun...

Oh no, I just noticed that this posted at 2:09 this afternoon, well its true that I uploaded the podcast for the third time from school today after trying unsuccessfully from home twice before. The rest of this post was published at 8:50 pm just before the blogger.com server went down for maintenance.

Thing Twenty - Videos, plenty

I visit both sites. Decided to embed from Teacher Tube to avoid all the firewall issues. I found lots of possibilties. This one for example would be a fun way to introduce library resources and search strategies.

Thing Nineteen - Award winners, be seen!

Award winners - there were so many great ones. Yes, I bookmarked many in del.icio.us, started to feel a bit more confident as I bumped into websites and services I had encountered before.

Here are my favorites, divided into two categories: 1. For me, professionally or otherwise, 2. To share with students and teachers.


For me:

Real book bargains and great search capabilities! http://www.biblio.com/


Various links to places to buy books, great for one stop shopping. Reading lists can also be posted here. http://www.reader2.com/


Create survey templates. See lots a future possibilities for this one. http://www.wufoo.com/


To share with students and teachers:

Write, share revise without the fear of losing or overwriting a good idea. http://www.writeboard.com/


True stories in one sentence. Consider the possibilities for creative writing projects. http://www.onesentence.com/


A great source for anything multimedia. http://www.podshow.com/


Ok, so you probably thought this one would be my favorite http://www.flock.com/
Can you figure out why?

Thing Eighteen - Open Office where have you been?

Like others participating in Libray2play, Openoffice.org took a very long time to download. But it was worth the wait, maybe not for me, I'll stick with Microsoft Office (I still don't know all there is to know there) BUT, this is a product to share with students who may not have access to all the programs we do. I will be sharing this info with my campus in our next weekly bulletin. This is not an "on the fly" sort of thing. A bit of planning needs to take place.

I practiced saving in the usual formats and then opening them in Microsoft Office. Everything I tried worked fine. I will need to experiment more with Impress to see if that truly crosses over. I did find CALC a bit easier than EXCEL, maybe more intuitive for non-math types, like myself.

As for Google Docs, again you need to be registered. But, I do see this as an alternative to our district's student folder. A student can quickly upload a document here and save and continue to work on it from home or another computer. Perhaps eliminating some frustration? Again, can't do this or much else "on the fly." I also liked the fact that you could upload larger documents and powerpoints than most email services will allow.