Week 9 Wikis

Okay, I keep going back to Flickr, which limits my time for the current lesson.  (I'm in the process of making a photo montage to post on our website along with news of our theme this year in the library:  The Year of the Classic.  Hence, the covers featured in this post.)  But I did dabble in wikis briefly.  I was overwhelmed by Nancy Pearl's wiki.  Too much info, not easy to navigate and didn't seem updated.  (Best books list was from 2006?)  I liked the BookLover's Wiki a lot; too bad it ended.  Like the concept; will see if our district librarian's group wants to get one started.

Week 8 Tagging

Part of me yearns for the simple days when tagging was something I did on a late summer night when playing a neighborhood game of "Come one, Come all".  And exploring the vastness of Web 2.0 reminds me of gazing up at the endless stars on those same summer nights.   But I am glad to be picking my path among the stars and learning new applications each week. For the past few years,  I have been amazed at the sheer amount of information on the web; this week using De.licio.us and Technorati, I am amazed at the organic systems that have developed to organize and retrieve that information.

I am glad to have the articles about Library 2.0 to see what I am learning in terms of possible use in libraries.  Right now, though, I have printed them out and am taking them home to read under the oak tree.  Two hours in front of the screen is enough.  Later.....

Week 7. Play Week

Played around with Image Generator.  Created this photo in the Banner/Poster choice from the archives.   Had fun with making word clouds using wordle.net.  Did one with "Library" and another with "Non-fiction".  Will use a word cloud when brainstorming with kids in the beginning of the year about all the things a library can be.  We'll take their individual suggestions and create a "cloud" for each grade.   Will offer the link to the coat-of-arms creator (again in Image Generator) to any of the teachers who do family history with their class.

Set up a library in LibraryThing but am not sure how to link it with my blog.  Great fun this week but must get outside--even if it is overcast--it's still Summer!