Week#5, Thing#12

This is great! Now when I want to put together a list of places that are relevant to the topics the teachers make I can make a search roll for them and not have to go to each computer to put the websites in my favorites! I am going to share this with the teachers that do research on the web and see if they will share any search rolls they create with me so I can use them. We also will need to get the computer teacher on board with this.

Week#5 Thing#11

I enjoy playing solitaire games on the computer and like trying out new ones so I went to the games list. Zango was my favorite - it listed several games which I want to try when I get on my own computer. Also looked at WorldCat - that looks like a great resource for helping patrons find books I do not have, also learned about using Google books and Google scholar to find the book in a library without going to the WorldCat site. The Web 2.0 awards site has some good ideas and I will look forward to seeing the next list.

Week #5 Thing #10

I really enjoyed the Image Chef site. I want to make a list for the upper grades to create signs for different popular dewey sections of the library for the younger students who do not know how to search the shelves well. I like the variety of comic strips found but lack the creativity right now to do much.

I have several students who will do a much better job than I will for the library website image - that will also be an assignment this year.

Thing #9

I looked at all the different search tools and liked the google one best. Of course, that may be because I finally got my search item refined. I still am not a fan of blogs and such since I see them as a major time requirement right now. I am going to try to go to my RSS feeds and look at them two or three times a week and see how I manage that. Of course, that requires remembering how to get there again. Once school starts maybe I'll have a better feel for what I will need time for and how to schedule it better. Getting a babysitter to get on a computer since my personal ones have both crashed is really coloring my attitude. Hopefully my tech buddies are serious about getting the laptop and desktop fixed this month for me. (Since they only charge for parts I am not going to push them to make time in their lives for me.)