Session 6: Podcasts and ebooks

It would have been fun to actually practice making a podcast so it would be easier when we would want to do it with students. I would like to search more to find more ebook sites with younger children's literature. Most of the sites I found had books for high school level students.

Session 5: Wikis

At first I couldn't understand how a wiki would be useful if several people are editing and updating what is being posted to a website. Now I understand how it can be used when you want to collaborate with a group of people in a quick way. You just need to TRUST the others in the group because you can't be sure that their posting is necessarily truth. Where you can personally control your own blog, you have to let go and trust your collaborative partners with a wiki. It can be very useful for teachers or librarians who are lesson planning together if several people are involved.

Lulu.com

Look at this super cool website called Lulu! Go here to publish your own books or books that your students have written. You can even put photo books together there like you can at Shutterfly. I've had students approach me before about wanting to publish their writing and how to do it and now I have a great place to send them.

Session 3 - Delicious and Tagging

When I was learning about del.icio.us I couldn't wait to sign up for it. I love how the tags help you organize. I can't wait to go home and create my own personal one with the "Favorites" I have on that computer. This is really cool and I'm so glad I took this class. I'm glad I'm taking it in the summer and have time to digest all of this without all of the other school stuff bogging down my brain.

Session 2 - RSS

The RSS connections are cool. I just couldn't find some that I really LOVE. I looked for a long time and I know there are some neat ones out there that exist. I just have to spend some more time looking around the internet. I picked a few that work out OK and are mostly news related. I'd just like something more FUN and exciting.

I added one at the bottom of this blog page from Librarian's Internet Index.

Session 1 - Blogging

Goals - I hope to learn about the Web 2.0 terminology and how to actually apply what I'm learning so that I can use it with my students during the upcoming school year. I want to create a blog where the students can leave posts about the books they are reading. We will start with blogging about the Bluebonnet books and then have another thread for blogging about books they'd like to recommend to their friends. Maybe even the teachers will add to the blog and encourage their classes to add to the blog on a regular basis.