Week 8 Activity #18

How cool is this! It looks just like Word with all of the tool bars and menus and stuff. I am going to type my blog here and see how this whole thing works.

My computer just booted me off and I was curious to see what happened to my work. I logged back in to Zoho Writer and it was under my docs. This is excellent! You can use this anywhere. I really like it and I am going to do some more exploring.

That was totally easy, I typed it up and posted it directly to my blog. My son is going to college this year and I am going to show him this. Zoho Writer is a great discovery for me.

Week 7 Activity #17

It was great to see all of the ideas that everyone has to share. I am a visual person, so it was great to read all of the posts in the Photos and Images section. Most of the ideas are things that we have learned during the process of SLL2.0.

Being a Library Media Tech for only 2 years I really do not have that many ideas to share, so I did not post anything. It is exciting to me to see things that I can use to make the library more fun. And already my wheels are spinning and I am looking forward to the new school year.

Week 7 Activity #16

Finding out the meaning of the word Wiki, (something fast), was a great beginning. I didn't know that you could update, edit or change the information on Wiki's. Now I understand why this advantage of fast updating can also be its disadvantage. With editing made so easy, how do trust the source?

Discovery Resources has great articles that explain the world of Wiki's. I checked out the Wiki for the CSLA 2007 conference and I didn't understand it. Then I read the resource, Using Wiki's to Create Online Communities and it was much clearer. It would be nice to know good places to eat or visit where the conference is taking place and people who know the area can post to that Wiki.

So you want to build a wiki? gives a list of points to consider when starting up a Wiki. I have mixed feelings about these Wiki's. On one hand I think it is cool that you can update and edit, but on the other hand it seems like there is not enough control. The jury is still out on this one. I am going to check out some blogs to see what others have to say.

Week 6 Activity #15

Where do you fit in Library 2.0 in a 30 minute library visit once a week? I began reading the perspectives from the beginning of the list. There are still so many terms that go along with this whole 2.0 thing that I do not know, that I began to get frustrated. Then I read A ripple effect.

Working at an elementary school with a budget of $580 does not give me much to work with when it comes to technology. A ripple effect gave great ideas for small libraries to succeed.
Have a plan and concentrate on one thing at a time. Promote your services. Ok, I have books and a website. My plan this school year will to be to work on our library website and promote what services we do have to offer so that the faculty and students become more aware. Empowering my patrons will empower my library.

Besides PTA and state funds, what other ways do libraries get funds? What grants are out there? How do you find them?

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!!