Week Five

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!