This has really been a short week for me. I was gone for a long weekend, so I did most of my reading in the car. Sorry, the best thing I did this week was go to St. Louis., Louis!! :) But while there, I took some great video of the tigers playing at the St. Louis Zoo, and I really want to use that on my library wiki to bring attention to the books we have on tigers. Kinda like what I did with the "Christian" book and the you tube video. I'd like to be able to do that every other month or so. I'd like to find some sort of video, or take my own, and then match it up with some books in our library, preferably new ones, that the video could advertise. Now that I've been able to do it once, I'm sure that what ever I decide to use as my website, blog, wiki, whatever, I will be able to do it as a way to excite children to want to "read all about it."
The other thing that I think will be helpful, although I am still in the process of checking these out, (and probably will be for some time), are all the Twitter sites that are listed in our lesson for this week in the 6 Resources for Using Twitter in Education. I have already put some of the links on my resource blog from the first class we took. I do plan to set up a Delicious or Diigo account (something else I learned!) to put all my book marks and websites and such, but for now, they are all going on that blog page. I haven't decided which place I want to put them yet. But I have seen some really good twitters (tweets?) with sites on all sorts of different subjects, and I would like to be able to pass these along to the teachers at school. I did that one day last week when I popped in to school to do some work and found one of the teachers using my computer (so I couldn't do my work :( ), but she was collaborating with a teacher from another school and they were talking about math testing and I told them about the twitter sites, and they were able to find some examples that led to websites...etc. It really felt good to be able to throw that out there, and it actually helped!! I think that is the most important way that I will be able to use what we are learning and finding in these classes. Besides the fact that I can use this stuff for myself, being able to pass this information along to the other teachers to help them join the Web 2.0 world will be very rewarding and fun!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Week Four
I haven't quite finished my podcast for this week, but, with what I have done so far,I think the podcast gets the "thumbs up" for this week. After checking out the choices you gave us, for my purposes, I like Yodio the best. I like the ability to add pictures to my podcast. Making an account was easy, as well as downloading the pictures. The only drawback I can see, so far, is that you are only allowed 15 pictures for the free account. But, maybe for children, 15 is more than enough. At the point I am at, the next step is to make the toll free call to make the recording. Then I put the two together. Once I do this I'll be able to say for sure how much I like it. But for now, things are looking pretty good.
The thought I have for the use of Yodio in the library is a kind of "what I did this summer" type of project. I would like to have the children use pictures of something they did over the summer, and then write a short story to go with the pictures. They would only be able to use 15 pictures or less, so that would keep it from becoming too big of a project.
Another little twist on the summer story project, would be to try to put together a little radio show of what the students did on their summer vacation. This could be done as a podcast, where one child would be chosen to be the interviewer, and he/she could interview the other students. Or after one student is the guest speaker, he would then become the next interviewer for the next speaker. It would be fun to be able to post something like this on the library web site, or blog, or wiki, whichever I end up with. Maybe other children would have fun posting what they did too.
The thought I have for the use of Yodio in the library is a kind of "what I did this summer" type of project. I would like to have the children use pictures of something they did over the summer, and then write a short story to go with the pictures. They would only be able to use 15 pictures or less, so that would keep it from becoming too big of a project.
Another little twist on the summer story project, would be to try to put together a little radio show of what the students did on their summer vacation. This could be done as a podcast, where one child would be chosen to be the interviewer, and he/she could interview the other students. Or after one student is the guest speaker, he would then become the next interviewer for the next speaker. It would be fun to be able to post something like this on the library web site, or blog, or wiki, whichever I end up with. Maybe other children would have fun posting what they did too.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Week Three
I had some fun with both of the items we learned about this week. The most fun was doing the Flickr project, but it also took up the most time. Right now I am playing around with the pictures I have in Flickr, trying to get the pictures into my blog. As you can see from my last two posts, I was able to transfer a picture and a small slideshow. What I wanted to do was to put these on the side of the blog post, over where the profile and followers, etc. are. Is there a way to do that? I also tried to make a Flickr badge to add to my blog, but the URL would not be accepted by Blogger, saying that the URL was too big. I tried to make the badge smaller, but it was still too big. Any suggestions there?
The Google Reader is what I will probably use the most with my job. With the nature of my job, I will need to keep informed on all the new books for children, as well as the new technologies for the school. Using an RSS feed will help me keep up-to-date with the news and the latest improvements to technology. I have a good start on my list of feeds. I know there is still a ton of informative sites out there just waiting to be found.
The Google Reader is what I will probably use the most with my job. With the nature of my job, I will need to keep informed on all the new books for children, as well as the new technologies for the school. Using an RSS feed will help me keep up-to-date with the news and the latest improvements to technology. I have a good start on my list of feeds. I know there is still a ton of informative sites out there just waiting to be found.
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