Thing #8

At this time I cannot say I am a fan of RSS. It is one more thing to keep up with and remember. I will probably change my attitude when I have made it a habit like my favorite cartoon strip I read online. I have put a blog on my reader from a former student who is now a friend and some librarian blogs to keep up with. I can keep up with Laura once she leaves Austin and if my daughter blogs I can add her. When I take the time to read and other blogs I will be able to see what is going on in my professional world. I want to collaborate with teachers and see what units they are working on, especially intermediate level and see if there are blogs that would give them or their students ideas and information on the topic being studied.

Thing 7

I can tell I will need to put a reminder on my computer to go back to infodoodads weekly. I only read through the first page and found several sites to go to. I went into the top 13 for librarians and found a new site (to me) to save my bookmarks. My school computers lose all my bookmarks periodically and I have not taken the time to put them on the internet. Now I will go to all the computers in the library and put them all on del.icio.us as well as my home computers. I will also tell my daughter about this site - she is starting her first year teaching in 5th grade. I am going to see her and her classroom in two weeks and want to share what I have learned during this inservice with her - she knows some but there are some things she may not have learned about yet, unlike her mother who is still behind the curve right now.

Thing #6 Flickr fun

Wow, spent way more time with this than I thought I would. Still not sure how to edit pictures in Flickr - when I previewed ones to import they were right side up, in set on Flickr they are sideways now. I'll go back and play more to fix these later. I tried to do a mosaic for my children about my granddaughter but it kept saying the pictures were unavailable. Another argh. So I tried the trading card. Yea! success! Now to get the children to sign up and join Flickr to share pics.
I have a tiny library with no space to display posters etc. I want to change my birthday book program to include pictures of the people who participate and the trading card will be perfect to use. I can put the name of the child, their birthday and the title of the book they selected. I can put these on the sides of bookcases. I can also see using the trading cards to publicize books and get students who read the book to write a review. Then I can put them in an album.