Thing #19

Wow! I had so much fun exploring Lulu... what an awesome place for libraries and a great place to publish your own creative works for classroom or school wide use. This would be a great place for those who love writing to be creative and have their works published and even avaiable for purchase. It's even great for photo books and music too! There were many other Web 2.0 Awards sites I visited in the past and have enjoyed as well. I think Google Maps is one of my all time favorites and I use it weekly.

Thing #18

I explored both Open Office and Google Docs and I have to say I think Google Docs is awesome! I love how you can collaborate with a "team" to create/edit documents, spreadsheets and diagrams. Maybe this could be useful in group projects for class. I would like to experiment more with it first. I couldn't access Open Office even though it was downloaded on my laptop.

Thing #17

I registered for Rollyo and started a searchroll.
Here it is!

Thing #16

Wikis are actually fun and useful! I can think of many ways to use them as a classroom teacher and plan to set one up this year in my class.

Thing #15

I was intrigued by the Library Web 2.0 concept. After reading the post "After the icebergs", I am concerned that the wave of the future is to take most books out of print though. It appears as if the library of the future involves mostly technology and Web 2.0 as the primary source of information. I guess I am having trouble visualizing this type of library. I wonder if it would just be a bunch of laptop cubicles with an ActivBoard and some desktops. Maybe keep the couches? Just curious.

Thing #14

After exploring Technorati, I realized that there is so much more information out there in blogs than I would ever have time to read. I typed in the iphone4 as a tag to see what blogs there were and I came across a visual representation of how the iphone4 works and information about the similarities and differences with other iphones. This website would be useful if I would like to find out what other people experience with certain objects or people that I'm interested in and their opinions and thoughts. I typed in School Library Learning 2.0 in all three locations and got 0 hits. I thought this was odd. I think I need a lot more experience with this before I would be comfortable using it regularly.

Thing #13

Social bookmarking through Delicious is a very new concept for me. I have it bookmarked in my browser, but I only have two bookmarked websites. I think I would like to try using this to show how to research a topic in my classroom. I will have to experiment around with it a lot before I would be comfortable doing this.

Thing #12

This is the part of blogging I am most uncomfortable with. However, I think with some practice, I will begin to enjoy participating in commenting. I do appreciate the instructions on how to deal with negative or inappropriate comments. This gives me more confidence on how to handle this type of situation. I also thought the different ways to encourage blogging were interesting. I plan to add my own blog to my school website so I can encourage and teach my students how to comment on a blog.

Well, I commented on the following blogs:
Sunshine
Laura's 23 Things
Becoming Mary Poppins
Flower Power
Firefly Flight

The other blog I commented on is ms teacher. I read some interesting information posted by other teachers across America. I would recommend following this blog to anyone.

I learned how to do something new from Sunshine's blog. I will attempt to do this in a few minutes. Can't wait! I also found out about some very interesting people.

Thing #11

I joined LibraryThing today! I added five book titles and joined a group. I checked some of the messages about a book to see what people thought. I can see the value of using this site to get feedback about new books before I recommend them to my students. I plan on visiting this site a lot during the school year.