Week 9 Thing 23: Copyright

I have the seen the "Fairy Use Tale" a few months ago and I thought it was really good. The only thing that may be a problem is that I don't think students will quite get the concept because it does seem to be fast paced but would recognize the cartoons. Teachers would benefit from it better. The Creative Commons website provided useful information . I deal with copyright everyday in the library and it seems that teachers push it more than students. Part of that does stem from the teachers' lack of knowledge about copyright and we as librarians need to teach them how to avoid copyright infringement.

Week 9 Thing 22: ebooks and Audio ebooks

Surprise, there are a lot of websites that offer free ebooks. The only thing I did not like was I found downloading the books was challenging. Sad to say I am not a big fan of classics and most of websites contained many classics. I did look at Kids Audible and saw that there were a few free ebooks that my students would possibly interested. I guess I am not that comfortable in downloading ebooks. The last time I used an ebook was when I was finishing my master's. I was not very interested in this activity.

Week 9 Thing 21: Podcasts

My only experience with Podcasts was that I took a 1 day training on Podcasts. We used Macs with Garageband and learned how to create a podcast and I thought it was an intense class. It took a while to practice recording songs, phrases and actually talking and recording and matching all that to the pictures. When I went to search the podcast directory, I found out that a couple of the links did not work. Podcast.net's link was broken and Yahoo Podcast could not be found. Right now, I did not find anything that would benefit me to use in my library but I will keep searching and who knows maybe I might find just the right thing to share with my students.

Week 9 Thing 20: You Tube and few sites

For as long as You Tube has been around, this is the first time I experience looking through it. While I was taking this workshop I came across a wiki and saw a video that really caught my eye. I noticed they found it on You Tube and so I went to look for it myself. I found it and I thought it would a great introduction to teachers about using technology and connecting and sharing information that ties in with the library.





Another video I came across was so inspiring for writing that I would love to share it with our teachers. This little girl is so amazing and her vocabulary is mind boggling!!!

Week 8 #19: Library Thing

I have never heard of Library Thing until I took this workshop. I never knew there was such a tool to catalog books but surprisingly it can only catalog up to 200 books. Adding books was actually easy. I can actually catalog all of the books that my kids have at home. I like that you can see how the books rate and actually read other reviews. Here is a link to my library thing.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mebarr66

Week 8 Thing 18: Online Productivity Tools

I created an account with Zoho writer and played around trying to create a sample document but did not find it that user friendly. My preference would be Google docs and I have not really used it until last week when we used it during a workshop. Now that I had a chance to spend some time with Google docs, I can see using this as a great way to share research units with other librarians. I really like this tool for the reason that I don't have to worry about saving documents or presentations on a jump drive and I can pull it up on any computer wherever I go. How convenient is that?

Week 6 Thing 14: Technorati

After I did a search for school library 2.0 using Technorati, I was surprised the number of posts. I expected the results would be higher. There was only 539 post but when I did a tag search, no results showed up. I did not feel very comfortable with this particular tool. Maybe I need to research this more in depth to find it useful for me.