Activity 10

This was a great activity. I went to Image Chef and chose the template of a heart and filled it up with books. Playing with the colors for the words and background was fun.

Then I went to Fds Flickr Toys and made a beaded image. It was interesting to see how the image changed with the choice of beads and colors. I figured out how to place my images where I want them in my blog by editing html. Maybe there is an easier way, but for this activity I just highlighted the html information pertaining to the beaded image, cut it and pasted it below my words.

Activity 9 and 10 ideas will be great to use next year in our library. We could have students review their favorite books and make them in to library trading cards. We can take a digital photo of them with their book and have them type in their review and place them around the library. Very exciting.

Activity 9

Searching School Library Learning 2.0 with Google Blog Search was a good place for me to start looking for RSS feeds. I learned how to link the google search in my post by visiting Helen's World blog. In it, she had asked how to create links in her post and a comment was left by Rob that explained how it's done. Way cool!! Topix was the easiest place for me to find and subscribe to feeds. I added Yorba Linda News to my bloglines. Continuing my search for feeds using Syndic8 was really confusing. The set up for searching wasn't friendly to me. I will stick with Topix for now.

Activity 8

RSS... I never paid attention to the little orange symbol, but now I look for it everywhere I visit! I am a weather checker, so one of my feeds is USAtoday weather. Got laughs is always a good thing... and who couldn't use the budget fashionista followed by a quick check of Dictionary.com word for the day. Right now, I visit bloglines daily because it is fun and new to me, yet I know that as I learn more fun things, it may not be a daily thing. It is very cool to just go to one sight and be able to access your favorite things.

Activity 7

Our district has monthly library meetings. At our last meeting we met in one of the computer labs and we were all given a chance to set up our own school library websites. It was so great to learn how to add pictures, scrolling messages, attach our Accelerated Reader test list, and other fun things that are happening in our library. If you get a chance visit our website at http://edweb.pylusd.org/echo/portal/public/default.aspx?un=lib0530&site=0530. (Hold the cursor over the scrolling message and it will stop so you can read it). It is a work in progress and I am excited about adding things that I will learn over the summer. I left a comment on Helen's World. She is really moving along and her blog is great.

Activity 6

We are planning an August Adventure and I was able to use the trip planner to show all of our stops up the west coast. Now our family and friends can follow along as we make daily entries of our trip. FD's Toys gives you so many fun ways to use your pictures. Making a mosaic of my children was fun.

Activity 5

I never knew anything like Flickr existed. It is a very easy way to share photos with family and friends. I signed up and plan to spend time during the summer uploading pictures to share. The tags make it easy for you to search and they also make it easy for you to get lost in the sea of photos.

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Originally uploaded by venicewow.

Activities 3 and 4

Now that I have set up a blog, I have to figure out how to get to it. I registered it with CSLA and now it's time to get busy. I am looking forward to learning more fancy technology stuff over the summer. My avator was a challenge. I was so excited when I figured out how to export it and get it into my blog!

Activities 1 and 2

I created my very first blog!! After listening to the 7 1/2 habits, it was nice to see that I am a life long learner. I am currently taking courses at Santa Ana College in library technology. This semester I enrolled in the cataloging class and it has been a challenge. I love copy cataloging!!!