Week 5, Social networks

Set up a face book account.  Sent a message to a friend.  Befriended Vermont Librarian and Library 2.o Interest Group.  Enjoying the satisfaction that comes from learning a new skill and pondering if I can tie it to my work with K-6 graders.  

Two people came by while I was working (the first grade teacher and later the Special Ed aide) and both of their comments were about the dangers of social networking sites.  Makes me feel like this would be good to bring up as a staff.  But I also want to look at positive uses for it and am glad to have dipped my toe in the water.

Week 4. RSS Feeds

Discovered RSS Feeds today.  Not sure whether they are going to help me spend my time more efficiently on the computer, or just help me spend more time there!  Did enjoy two videos from the feeds:   one was a discussion of what new technology can offer in terms of library privacy issues (from librarian.net)  and the other was of a fellow dancing his way, sometimes solo and sometimes with a crowd, around the world.  One made me think; the other made me smile. (And the dancing one was from a librarian's blog!)

Subscribed to NYT Book Review,  Shifted Librarian, Librarian.net, the BBC News Health and Medical News Today.

Want to play more with Flickr, but the garden calls and the peas need to be frozen.

The old and the new

Here's a picture (now, next I want to learn how to rotate images) of Eartha Wizzi, our ancient library puppet reading from a Kindle. Her favorite title?? The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Help with Flickr

Has anyone made a pocket-sized photo album using one of the Flickr toys? My thought was to drag in cover images from some of this year's Red Clover titles and make little booklets that kids could annotate as we read the stories. The instructions say you can upload images from your computer and the only other instruction seems to be to drag the images into the appropriate boxes. I downloaded some cover art from Amazon but am having no luck dragging the images.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Week 1, Lifelong Learning

Fun to watch the Power Point. Content was pretty standard but did have its inspirational moments.
For me, the Easiest Habit is accepting responsibility for learning. I like to plan ahead and have things organized enough that I can relax and enjoy.
The Hardest Habit? I think it is setting goals. I'm okay with general ones ("I want to improve my knowledge of technology") but it is harder to come up with the specific steps to get there.

Introduction

A word about the title. Eartha Wizzi is the name of the library witch (puppet). I wanted a title that will remind me to smile even in the midst of technological struggle. I hope it works!