http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org Web 2.0 Things 1 - 23 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:40:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This has been an incredible course. It has been easy to lose hours on end delving into various new tools and experimenting. In the interest of time, I have had to stop some of my investigations before I was ready to and I look forward to going back ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/08/05/thing-23-web-20/ I found some interesting blogs while browsing through Classroom 2.0 and Niing. It is easy to spend lots of time here, but I have to admit that there wasn't as much information for media specialists as for other teachers. I did find a great blog from Cold Spring ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/08/05/thing-22-social-networking/ I found a new RSS feed while reviewing my TechLearning feed. It is Cool Cat Teacher Blog and it had some interesting tips on starting the school year out right. I immediately added it to my feeds. She actually broke it down into 3 segments, all of ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/08/04/7c-rss-feeds/ I really enjoyed playing in Pageflakes. I can see some great library applications for research projects. It will be a great way to pull together the latest and greatest information on any topic I can think of. Immediate ideas include research projects on the Industrial Revolution and ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/08/04/thing-21-pageflakes/ So much potential! I can see a lot of different applications for this tool. First of all, I can see creating our Library Newsletter with this tool and publishing it as a website - that will save a lot of paper! Not only will it save paper, ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/08/03/thing-20-google-docs/ I really enjoyed watching the videos. I found a couple of examples of visits to the Library of Congress on YouTube that were very informative. The following link was the best one that I visited.. http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/08/02/thing-19-youtube-and-teachertube/ I have done a podcast in the past where I used GarageBand on the Mac, so I used the same thing again. I created a podcast on how to find books in the library. It was simple to do and our school has a podcast library where teachers ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/07/28/thing-18-publishing-a-podcast/ I found some interesting Podcasts from other elementary schools. There were some great projects. One project was from a 5th grade class that had the students read 3 facts about the states they researched. After introducing themselves, they read 3 interesting facts about their state and then ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/07/28/thing-17-podcasts/ LibraryThing is a fun tool. I played around with it and set up an account with some of my personal collection of books. Not only does it catalog the books, but I can see other books that are recommended in the same genre by readers that have enjoyed ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/07/28/thing-16-library-thing/ I absolutely love Del.icio.us. I have been using it for about a year and don't bookmark websites any other way now. I have about 80 bookmarks at this point (I will be adding several more after this class) and love the way I can organize them. It ... http://hieslslibrary.edublogs.org/2008/07/25/thing-15-its-delicious/