Thing 5

I love Facebook, I have used it frequently for personal microblogging. I was not as taken with Twitter at first, but reading the articles presented on how to use it in libraries; and seeing it constantly on television, makes me realize it is quite effective and popular. I am going to try it this year to share information about what's going on in my middle school library! I think it will be a way to share rsources chosen/suggested by the library and teachers, introduce new books and events, and support students' learning.

I am already using twitter for my part time job as vintage online store owner. It's fun to share new information with my tweets (I know I need to be careful and use the correct twitter lexicon).

The tinychat information was interesting, I know that any chat in my district is blocked, so I will look forward to seeing what they have to say about this option.

Backchanneling is very interesting...I prefer the idea of backchanneling in large presentations because it seems to include everyone while keeping the flow of the presentation going and giving feedback to the presentor.

Thing 4

I think there is a great advantage to having student created work uploaded to teachertube! But this was one of my most frustrating experiences with the 11.5 things yet- I tried to work on it at school and kept timing out or having issues. I'll have to troubleshoot further, but finally got something to upload from home.

Here's the link, I didn't choose to allow embedding..

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Thing 3

I was amazed by this Skype article written by a very resourceful librarian! I mentioned skype this summer as a low cost way to conduct a long distance interview but was told that it was not approved in our district.

That was just one way I think we could use this fabulous tool- look what Oprah has done with it! It's the ultimate distance learning tool.

I'd love to have a long distance book club meet with an author or a fan just like them!

And since it is used as long distance reference help in some situations- perhaps it could be used under supervision in our libraries if not in the whole school!

Thing 2

Here is my Wordsift, I like Wordle best, but wordsift's highlighting academic words feature is cool too!

category clay cleans compact cosmetic course destination enjoy etsy etsy…one fabulous favorite find found hopeis… like look love makeup mask need online perfect product pursereason relax routine sensitive shopping skin spend thursday time treat vegan vintage whatever

I think Voki would help a nervous student do a great job in a presentation!

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Bookr is so amazing. I found this great book on tide pools, and thought how wonderful it would be for students to create their own books on biomes, their school, their community.... endless possibilities.

I love Glogster and have used it to create quick and fun webpages for teachers and kids. If you embed it into a webpage a user goes to your site instead of glogster.

Thing 1

I love Google Scholar and that the student in this video uses quality sources and shares them in productive socially networked way. The librarian can absoloutely facilitate learning this way- and many of us already are on the way to doing so! Lirbary websites that have links to valueable resources, including social networking like wikis and blogs students can access to work with their peers, is a step in the right direction.
Lehman HS in Hays CISD has made efforts in this direction.
http://lobolib.org/content/