Week 6 Activity #14

Claiming my blog was easy until I got to the spot where I had to choose a "handy button" for people to mark my blog. When it comes to copying things and then placing them in the right spot in my blog for them to magically appear, I really suck! PageSpace and Libladylib have tried to help me, and I try, but I guess it is going to take more practice.

There are so many new things to check out and sign up for, that I really cannot remember what I have or have not signed up for. Technorati is fun to look for things, but I do not think my elementary school library would use it. Tags make it easy to look for and find things, kind of like a neatly organized filing cabinet. I have got more exploring and tagging to do.

Week 6 Activity #13

Del.icio.us... I was just going through the bookmarks on my computer and weeding them. Tagging would make it so much easier. My son just graduated from high school and at one of the graduation parties a mom (who always brings something so yummy to eat) said that she will pull recipes out of magazines and put them in a three-ring binder. Del.icio.us is an online three-ring binder. I have so much more research and work to do, but I am excited that I can organize my bookmarks with tags.

How cool would it be to have a tag with favorite books of elementary school librarians. Discovering fun new things to read to the students is the best part of my job, organizing them is not. Del.icio.us seems to be a great tool to help.

The Del.icio.us checkered box does not show up on my toolbar even though I followed the directions. I read the note in the Optional section of the activity, but I still could not figure it out. There is more work to be done here.....

Activity 12

My daughter and I had this big discussion (disagreement) about how to pronounce Rollyo. Is it Roll-Yo or Roll-E-O? However you say it, linking all of your favorite search places together is pretty cool. I love to do Sudoku so I linked my favorite sites together under a Searchroll titled Do U Sudoku. I have followed the directions to link it to my blog but I can't seem to find the secret. I began a quest to find blogs that were successful in linking their Rollyo and I found that PageSpace did it! So I left a comment and asked for a little more info.

Libladylib on Our library moves forward figured out how to put her name in lights. How cool is that! I am going try and to do it too!!

Activity 11

Web 2.0...hmmm...so many choices, yikes, what do I want to look at first. Library Thing was my choice. This is my second year working in an elementary school library and my experience matches my time. I am attending Santa Ana College and working towards a Library Technology Certificate. Library Thing has such a wide variety of library people and there were plenty of topics to choose from (I even ordered a shirt that says "Library Thing" hee hee...) It was great to see people sharing their experiences in work and school. I visited libladylib at Our Library Moves Forward and I followed her link to put my name in lights.
That was fun!!