Winter 2.0 Fun is Launched!
Winter 2.0 Fun runs from December 1, 2007 - April 1, 2008. This is a repeat of School Library Learning 2.0 that was offered over the 2007 summer.
Join your colleagues to learn more about YouTube, podcasts, image generators, wikis, mashups and other web 2.0 tools. Now is your chance to learn, at your leisure -- in the comfort of your own home, all about these exciting new tools. This on-line tutorial will take you step by step through the use of many of the tools listed above. There are already many ideas posted on CSLA's California 2.0 Curriculum Connections wiki on how to develop library lessons and useful classroom collaborations. Join in this discussion and add to it, the many ideas you'll be getting as you work through the 23 Things of this tutorial.
With over 60 CSLA "Summer 2.0 Fun" graduates, you have lots of learning partners to call on and many of these grads will be your cheering partners. CSLA's Ed Tech Committee gives this special feature a new name: "Peer Cheers."School Library Learning 2.0 is a free, fun, and fabulous way to learn together and strengthen our collective educational technology savvy. There is a Continuing Education option through Fresno Pacific University (Course #IND 1149.)
Start today at http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/
Connie Hamner WilliamsCSLA 2.0 TeamPresident-elect, CSLACSLA2team@yahoo.com

If Connie's message about Winter 2.0 Fun has you intrigued, come on join in... I will be cheering on some of our new team members during Winter 2.0 Fun. Join us and learn about new and exciting ways to enhance your technology skills.

Week 9 Activity #23

This was a great experience for me. A couple of my favorite discoveries are Yahoo Travel Planner and Flickr. We took a fun vacation this summer and I was able to share it with my friends and family using Yahoo Travel Planner. Flickr will be something fun I can use for student book reviews.
Participating in this program has made me feel a little bit more in the know. There is so much out there to explore, it was nice to have a tour guide. It was great to get feedback from the CSLA School Library Learning 2.0 Team and others participating in the program. I loved checking out what others were up to. I was constantly visiting Ourlibrarymovesforward and Pagespace, they both had great ideas and experiences to read.
If another program like this was offered, I would totally do it. Every bit of information boosts the confidence. Trying new things can be intimidating, especially when given a deadline or time limit. Thank you so much for leaving plenty of time to explore.
Enlightening would be the word I would use to describe my experience.
p.s. Libladylib I dedicate this post to you!!

Week 9 Activity #22

ebooks and Audio ebooks. I have learned a little about them in my library courses, but I really do not know much about them. Gutenberg Project had plenty of choices, but not to many things I was interested in. I checked out other participants blogs to see if I could get a better idea of what and how to figure it out.
Our library moves forward had great information about getting these from the public library. I guess I now have the perfect reason to get an MP3 player. There is so much exploring I am going to do to really understand how ebooks and Audio ebooks work. I am excited to dig deeper.

Week 9 Activity #21

Podcasts.....heard about them, had no idea what they truly were. The tutorial on Yahoo Podcasts was a great introduction. A discussion with my teenage children was also a great introduction. We went round and round about the who, what, when, where and why's of Podcasts.
We discussed itunes, which is the most popular in their world, and then I showed them Yahoo! Podcasts and Podcasts.net. It was great pulling them into my world and chattin about the different ways of doing things.
I searched and explored and I listened, but I did not subscribe to anything. Once I have completed all 23 things, I will do some more exploring.

Prangstgrup Library Musical - Reading on a Dream PRANK!!

Week 9 Activity #20

How fun is this!?! My first YouTube experience was soooo much fun. I thought that Reading on a Dream was hilarious so I posted it to my blog. There would be no way that I would be able to keep a straight face during their prank.

I choose that video because sometimes I believe that our elementary library is a musical theater. I sing songs that go along with books and act out others. It's my own little off off Broadway show!

YouTube was fun to explore. It was amazing to see how many videos came up after searching "library".

How cool would it be to make short little video clips of students reviewing or even acting out their favorite books and then posting them to your school library website. This was a fun activity.

Week 8 Activity #19

I visited LibraryThing during Activity 11 and I just did a little exploring. This time I started a list of books and I even added tags. I tried adding a widget, but I will have to see if it worked.
LibraryThing is a great resource, there are so many great groups. It is very easy to use and it kind of feels like home. It is going to be great to have my list of books to refer to online.