Thing # 16

Wikis I was a skeptic, but now I am a believer. I really enjoyed the wiki project that my partner and I did for the midterm and everyday I am seeing more and more uses for it. This next year I have plans to start a book club for my second grade GT. I will probably expand it to the entire 2nd grade the following year with other variations. Since my school only contains Pre-K - 2nd grade I have some limits, but I feel that if I start with the GT students this will not only give them a challenge it will help me work out any kinks that may come up. I also want to create a wiki for request for resources. I think that it would give everyone a good idea of what resources are needed and what other teachers are requesting. This will also expand into collaboration. I actually just thought that adding a wiki site for collaboration. Maybe teachers would find it easier to collaborate and send their ideas through a wiki. I'll have to try it and let you know how it works.

Thing # 15

Library 2.0 is scary yet very exciting. I say scary because it doesn't leave a librarian any other choice but to learn the latest and greatest that is out there or be left behind. Library 2.0 sees how society is changing and what it needs to do to keep up with it. I can remember the days of card catalogs, micro-film, and micro fiche and even though still in existence in places these things have been replaced with the new technology that the library 2.0 brings. Even though Library 2.0 is still a little difficult for me to wrap my head around because I am still so new and still discovering so many things that are out there I feel that it is essential for me to stay up to date and informed not only for my job and my students but for my own children as well.

Thing # 14

My husband and I have never been big on blogging. I guess we saw it as a waste of time that only people with time did. Through this discovery of 23 Things I have realized that yes there are people that have way to much time on their hands, but overall the blogging community is very helpful. I really like Technorati because it tends to take a lot of the search out of searching and gives you what you need. I especially liked using the popular blog and the keyword searches. I liked how it gave you the top 100 blogs and popular things of the moment. You would still have to filter but I can see how students would really enjoy some of the things that are found. I also liked the fact that it gave you different popular topics like movies, music, news, DVDs, and books. Like everything else on this 23 things I plan to tag and research Technorati more during the next couple of weeks.

Thing # 13

I really like Del-icio-us! It was fun and really easy to use. I am so glad that someone thought of this. I always have difficulty remembering why I have flagged a particular website especially if the address doesn't go with the subject matter. I will introduce this to my teachers at the beginning of the year so that they will be able to use it for themselves as well. I can see the ability of teachers being able to share useful sites not only with other campus members but as a district and teaching community as well. I really enjoyed learning about this thing.

Thing # 12

I really enjoyed the 10 Commandments of Blog Commenting. It was short, sweet, and to the point. It had some really good ideas about commenting with a few that I hadn't thought of. I like the fact that it tells you to try and use a little humor. Sometimes a cute little comment or word of encouragement will help you get through a rough day. I enjoyed commenting on the other blogs and still have a few more to comment on. I found some scrapbooking blogs that I think will be a lot of fun. I love to scrapbook in my spare time. HA HA and love to see what others are doing or are creating. I also would like to set up my own personal (not librarian) blog for my family and friends. My sister in law has one and it keeps everyone up to date on the latest with her kids.

Thing # 11

This was really fun. I really enjoyed LibraryThing and it was really easy to use. It would be very helpful to organize my home library of over 500 children's books. I liked that there were a vast amount of others that talk about books daily. If you ever wondered if a book was good or not it would be easy to find a group of individuals that have probably read it and will give you opinions on it before you even read it. I also like the fact that when searching for books for my school library I can get opinions on some of the lastest and greatest. I found several groups that interest me, but now I just have to find the time to participate in some of the groups. I did link this site as one of my RSS feeds because I found it so interesting.

Thing #10 addition

I forgot to tell you the generators that I used.

Happyfacegenerator

and

Kid Friendly Image Generator