Week 6: Thing #13 Del.icio.us

After watching the tutorials and navigating through the website, I joined Del.icio.us and ended up importing and consolidating all of my websites from both my Firefox and Safari browsers!! Wow, what a cleansing feeling! They are all there, tagged and bundled! I still need to do some cleaning up and fine tuning, but they represent the culmination of my Master's in School Library and Information Technologies through Mansfield University and will hopefully be a resource to others. I made them all public and added a badge in the sidebar for folks to join. I also installed a Firefox add-on which allows me to view my tags while searching the internet so that I can quickly bookmark new links and add them to my account at the same time. I guess that summer project of organizing my bookmarks ended up being a Spring Break project. Easier to do than I ever imagined!

Week 5: Thing #11 Web 2.0 Awards

I spent a lot of time exploring this award list, and even more time with Ning! It's interesting how we stumble upon links of interest: the indirect trail was the most effective route for me. Here's how it started:

I checked in on Raandi's blog and found that she had joined Joyce Valenza's BookVideoNing. I knew that Joyce had a Ning called TeacherLibrarian, but I wouldn't have known she had another one specifically focusing on the promotion of literacy through media if it hand't been for Raandi. Thank you, Raandi! This brought up the question, "Does Joyce Valenza have other Nings and how would I find them?" I ended up clicking on her name after searching for Teacher Librarian in the Ning search field, which instantly linked me to all of the social networks she belongs to. It was a great way to find relevant networks - through someone you regard highly in the school library field. She even belongs to the Alaska Association of School Librarians Ning!

As a result, I ended up joining several social networks of interest. It is a combination of my interests in libraries, integrated technology and the arts. I added a badge to my sidebar, indicating I belong to the Arts Integration social network.

I also searched Delicious for bookmarked websites tagged for "school libraries" and found several helpful links, which I added to my sidebar. One link that I had never come across during my online master's degree in school libraries was intute, which "is a free online service providing you with a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research." It was listed right up there with Internet Public Library and offered wonderful resources! I highly recommend it. Perhaps as a summer project, I could take the time to place all of my school library and arts integration bookmarks into Delicious. It would be a great resource all in one place!

I was fascinated by one of the book reviews on Valenza's Book Video network, called Dogzilla. Using a program called Crazy Talk, students incorporate their artwork into their review.


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