Week Six:Tagging and Social Bookmarking

This week I opened a Delicious account. I imported my bookmarks and downloaded some people to my network. I spent some time exploring and discovering new sites and am excited to continue exploring and discovering!

Week Five: RSS and Feed Readers

For week five I subscribed to Google Reader and subscribed to several feeds. I chose the Google Reader since I already had a Google account and it seemed easy enough to use. With the reader I will be able to follow several blogs without having to go to each one to see if there's a new post. One of the blogs is Stephen's Lighthouse which was created by Stephen Abram, the presenter of the technology webinar I watched in week three. I also subscribed to a couple of book review sites so I can stay on top of new titles. I like the idea of having news brought to me instead of having to spend time seeking it out. I will continue to tweak my reader as time goes on.

I added my Animoto clip to my blog. Look to the right under the Shelfari. I didn't spend much time making it because I was trying to get to the Colgan vs. Frontenac game. I should mention that both our girls' team and our boys' team won. Anyway, I just embedded it for all to view.

Week Four: Photo Sharing

For week four of 23 Things Kansas I opened up a Flickr account. I took several pictures of our library at St. Mary's Colgan and uploaded them to Flickr. Then I sent one of the pictures to my blog as you can see below. It was very easy to do so you will probably be seeing more pictures on my blog in the future. Next I'm going to make a short video clip of my pictures using Animoto.

St. Mary's Colgan Library 10

St. Mary's Colgan Library 10
Originally uploaded by mama librarian

This is a picture I took of our library at St. Mary's Colgan. It looks lonely without students.

Week Three - Online Meetings

For my online meetings assignment, I watched an archived webinar from SirsiDynix titled 25 Technologies to Watch and How. Stephen Abram presented this webinar two years ago on Jan. 31, 2008. It was interesting to see what he predicted as the technologies to watch compared to where they are two years later. I found the How part of the presentation interesting as well. One of the suggestions he made was to schedule 15 minutes three times a week to learn something new. That's what I like about the 23 Things Kansas program. It's a way of making myself take the time to learn. And sometimes learning one thing leads to another. Did you notice my Voki to the right on my blog? I discovered Voki through another blog I'm following. As Stephen Abram points out, we have to find time to play.