Thing 14: This week has increased, yet again, my technology vocabulary. Not only do I need to use these words more often to remember and understand their meanings, but I also need to practice what some of these vocabulary words represent in order to not only understand how they work but to get an idea of how they can benefit the school library environment. I did watch the common craft video on social bookmarking and then they tutorial on Delicious. I tried searching “school library instruction” on Delicious and loved the results as compared to Google. Because these are bookmarked already the results were of much better quality and more specific to what I was looking for versus the huge range of results I get on Google. I then set up an account on Delicious and added my own bookmarks. I now have the tag at on my Internet Explorer page. I looked at the Vermont 23 Things delicious page and then created an RSS feed to this using my account in Bloglines (that was good practice!) I would be very interested to learn/see more how libraries are using this in their schools.
Thing 15: Technorati, another new vocabulary word, was an interesting site to peruse. Again, I think I could have spent much longer there and also found myself getting easily sidetracked. I used it more as a search tool. I played around with the items on the front page. I was assuming the “tag cloud” was the speech like bubble at the top of the page…otherwise, I did not find this. It is amazing the amount of information and reading that can be done…and what is of value and what is not? what is true and what is opinion or gossip? I did not claim by blog and set up a watchlist yet.
Thing 16: I tead the library Web 2.0 information and the following five articles. I made a copy of the list of references for future use. I would like to read more about Library 2.0 specific to the school library environment. I have to agree with the balance of technology and the real environment of the library and the people in it.
