YouTube is a rather interesting site. It has a great deal of potential-good and bad. I can see a definite place in education, but am not sure how to monitor it. OOPS! Will this touch upon freedom of information, intellectual freedom, or censorship? Probably. What a fine line and now to see if we can manage the tightrope act 1000' up. Now to experiment with a few valuable inserts. (Beware! I have no clue about embedding anything in my blog, or using html code or editing.)
Super Librarian: Here is a scene that shows just all we librarians are made of and what we can do-
It looks like it may have worked. This is now bringing out the possibility of using a site similar to YouTube etc. for informational, humorous, tutorial videos etc. It looks like a tool to help students with projects that can span and cross the curriculum. I have seen a few videos that were interesting and gave a fun presentation to a high school library. I will have to put on my thinking cap and plan a multimedia presentation for my library orientations. there are many possibilities. Once again the main limiting factor is "TIME". Where do we get all that we need and still read, catalog, weed, teach, interact, collaborate, and have a life, besides doing courses to improve our knowledge and skills? I still have a lot to explore.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Week #8 Thing #19
I have been exploring Library thing. It is very interesting. I had hoped it would also have a Dewey Classification tool. I didn't find it..YET. If someone has discovered this tool, I would love to know. I added about 14-16 books to my personal library. It is simple to do and allows tags, ratings, and reviews. this may be a good place to to research reader advisory queries. The tags seem to offer a lot of possibilities if the person adding the book gives a variety of tags to each book. the historical novels by G. A. Henty were part of the listings, but not so very popular. some oh his books do not show publication dates. Some were guesses from other copies listed. There were quite a few of the Gerald Lund series. I realize that I did not label some of the "Work and the Glory " series in the same fashion as others and they do not show up as shared. I checked out the groups. There were none for my books. I did find some groups that were found by indicating related tags. there is still much to learn about the site. I followed up a few links from some of the groups I explored and discovered quite a bit about bloggers and the depth to which they might go and how much they reveal of themselves. I discovered quite a few links to valuable, useless, and unique web sites on some of the blogs.
My library list can be found at the above link or here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dejongster
For the curriculum connection, I have no class since it is summer. I will attempt to input and catalog more of my library as I get time.
My library list can be found at the above link or here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dejongster
For the curriculum connection, I have no class since it is summer. I will attempt to input and catalog more of my library as I get time.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Blog Week 8 Thing 18
This is my masterpiece using the word processor from Zoho. I should put something very exciting here. Think. Think.! Think.!? Well I thought and I thunk and I am still thunkthinking. I am anxious because I am waiting for a job to be posted officially but haven't seen it fly so far. I saw the original email (to all the librarians in my district from the person leaving the position), now I look at the district posting of open positions every day. I really don't want to miss the opportunity. Now to attempt to link this to my blog at Blogger, dejongsplace.
Week #8 Thing #18 the Zoho experiment
I have explored part of Zoho Writer and found it easy to follow. I saw a link from SLL 2.0 that had a sample document. It mentioned being able to post on Blogger using Zoho Writer. I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I will cut and paste my document. I will also attempt to link my document from Zoho Writer to this blog. Will it work? I don't know, but when it is posted the proof will be in this blog entry (is this a new type of pudding?). I have read that earlier editions of documents can be recalled using Writer. there also seems to be a capability to save your work online and doing away with the need for a flash drive. It seems there is more exploring to do.
I attempted the link. It turned out to only allow me to email the document. I did open the document from the internet. It may solve problems for students at school because it will allow them to work on documents at home and school. this is important because my district does not allow flash drives, cds, or floppies brought from home to be opened on the school's computers. I attempted to use the link line above this post to connect the two documents but only liked to Zoho Writer and a blank document. The document can be located on the left side of the screen in the document archives. I have just discovered how to post from Zoho Writer. It should be on the following entry, I think!?!
Here is a copy of the document from the Zoho Writer:
This is my masterpiece using the word processor from Zoho. I should put something very exciting here. Think. Think.! Think.!? Well I thought and I thunk and I am still thunkthinking. I am anxious because I am waiting for a job to be posted officially but haven't seen it fly so far. I saw the original email (to all the librarians in my district from the person leaving the position), now I look at the district posting of open positions every day. I really don't want to miss the opportunity. Now to attempt to link this to my blog at Blogger, dejongsplace.
I attempted the link. It turned out to only allow me to email the document. I did open the document from the internet. It may solve problems for students at school because it will allow them to work on documents at home and school. this is important because my district does not allow flash drives, cds, or floppies brought from home to be opened on the school's computers. I attempted to use the link line above this post to connect the two documents but only liked to Zoho Writer and a blank document. The document can be located on the left side of the screen in the document archives. I have just discovered how to post from Zoho Writer. It should be on the following entry, I think!?!
Here is a copy of the document from the Zoho Writer:
This is my masterpiece using the word processor from Zoho. I should put something very exciting here. Think. Think.! Think.!? Well I thought and I thunk and I am still thunkthinking. I am anxious because I am waiting for a job to be posted officially but haven't seen it fly so far. I saw the original email (to all the librarians in my district from the person leaving the position), now I look at the district posting of open positions every day. I really don't want to miss the opportunity. Now to attempt to link this to my blog at Blogger, dejongsplace.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Week #7 Thing#18
I have been experimenting with the California Curriculum Connections wiki by adding some ideas for curriculum connections. One that I added is here: Idea: Create a magazine cover to introduce possible projects along the same lines as the articles indicated on the cover. Inside each student could expand on each theme as it related to him or her. This can be applied to almost any subject area. For a sample see: http://dejongsplace.blogspot.com/2007/06/week-3-thing-6-plus-curriculum.html
I also added another about creating a scavenger hunt for practicing path finding when doing research. I have only seen one sandbox item and I have not played there yet, but I guess I will because it is needed. Now, will my entry remain or be erased as in a sandbox with a stiff breeze, a hard rain, or a shuffled foot of a happy child?
I have returned to edit my original post after finding the sandbox-luckily there was no evidence of cats! I did not see a link to the sandbox. I only saw it mentioned as a recently edited page. I also did a search to see if I could find it. I arrived and left my mark. I am unsure if what posterity will see will be what was wanted; but as in a sandbox I played.
I also added another about creating a scavenger hunt for practicing path finding when doing research. I have only seen one sandbox item and I have not played there yet, but I guess I will because it is needed. Now, will my entry remain or be erased as in a sandbox with a stiff breeze, a hard rain, or a shuffled foot of a happy child?
I have returned to edit my original post after finding the sandbox-luckily there was no evidence of cats! I did not see a link to the sandbox. I only saw it mentioned as a recently edited page. I also did a search to see if I could find it. I arrived and left my mark. I am unsure if what posterity will see will be what was wanted; but as in a sandbox I played.
Week #7 Thing #17
There are a number of things I learned from the California Curriculum Connections wiki http://calcurriculum.pbwiki.com/. I saw the applications from the PBwiki site. It helped me visualize what I was seeing in the tutorials and sample wikis I had visited. By doing this "thing" I caught the idea of how to add pages and where they appear on the first page. There is much to do. As I went through the various pages for the weekly assignments in the SLL 2.0 program, I enjoyed the added curriculum connections. I am starting my own wiki as a laboratory for my learning. It will be a slow and ongoing process. I will then change it to become a fully functioning wiki as I gain skills and confidence.
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