Week 8: Online Applications & Tools
#18. Take a look at some online productivity tools.
#19. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
Zoho Writer was easy to use and had more options than Googledocs. Zoho has the Online web applications creator that I played around with but it was a little complicated to me. I looked at the Zoho wiki creator, I still prefer wikispaces. Zoho looks like a great web-based writing application and I’m going to try using it in the future in place of Googledocs and see, which I prefer.
I went to LibraryThing and enjoyed cataloging some of my own books. I couldn’t believe how easy it was! When I read the directions for #19 my first thoughts were that I really didn’t want to catalog, I do it enough at work! I also enjoyed getting book recommendations based on the titles from my collection. I will definitely use LibraryThing again!
Friday, August 10, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Week 7: Wikis
#16. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
#17. Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.
I have been using wikis this past year and I am always looking for new ways to incorporate them in my collaborative lessons. The California 2.0 Curriculum Connections wiki was great it had so many ideas! I added my idea of creating a wiki about the history of your town. Students, parents, and community members can all be involved. Besides PB wiki I also use wikispaces for Teachers and really like it.
#16. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
#17. Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.
I have been using wikis this past year and I am always looking for new ways to incorporate them in my collaborative lessons. The California 2.0 Curriculum Connections wiki was great it had so many ideas! I added my idea of creating a wiki about the history of your town. Students, parents, and community members can all be involved. Besides PB wiki I also use wikispaces for Teachers and really like it.
Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati
#13 Tagging and Del.icio.us
#14. Explore Technorati
#15. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries
Help, I’ve started tagging and I can’t sop! I started using Del.icio.us and I am finding it incredibly easy and useful. I am book marking and creating tags on pages I find helpful for a class I’m teaching. Going back I have found that hundreds of people have clicked on my bookmarks and have similar pages of information book marked. This is what web 2.0 is all about, collaboratively sharing information!
I registered a few of my blogs with Technorati and did some blog searches. I found that when searching I came up with a few inappropriate blogs. I would use this tool and then share the blogs with my teachers and students. I wouldn’t have my middle school students use it to search. I enjoyed reading the articles on Library 2.0 and plan to share a few of them at my next library meeting.
#13 Tagging and Del.icio.us
#14. Explore Technorati
#15. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries
Help, I’ve started tagging and I can’t sop! I started using Del.icio.us and I am finding it incredibly easy and useful. I am book marking and creating tags on pages I find helpful for a class I’m teaching. Going back I have found that hundreds of people have clicked on my bookmarks and have similar pages of information book marked. This is what web 2.0 is all about, collaboratively sharing information!
I registered a few of my blogs with Technorati and did some blog searches. I found that when searching I came up with a few inappropriate blogs. I would use this tool and then share the blogs with my teachers and students. I wouldn’t have my middle school students use it to search. I enjoyed reading the articles on Library 2.0 and plan to share a few of them at my next library meeting.
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