Week 9 # 20

Excellent video is how to cover books. I will use this video for the 6th grade orientation next year

Week 8 # 19 Library Thing

Great site. I enjoyed exploring this site. Built a widget My Favorite books. I added tags and changed the covers. I will create a new widget for our New Books Spring 2009 and I will post it in the Library Web Page. Great way to promote the new books!

Week 8 #18 Zoho & Google Docs

I explored Zoho Writer but I found it not easy to use. I tried to post a blog and I have not successful. I also looked at Google docs and I found it easier to use. I will able to share documents and have only place where documents are being edited. The only problem I see is that you have to be on the web to edit them. I definitely will choose Google docs over Zoho writer.

Week 7 #17 Sandbox Wiki

I spent time going over Library Success best practices:http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Wikis.
I followed "step by step guide creating my first wiki. I collaborated with Social Science Teacher and created my first pbwiki : Welcome to Renaissance Research: http://blackmtlrc.pbworks.com/ and posted a link on the Library Webpage. I will explore using Wikispaces Pathfinders since you do not need to know html to create them.

Week 7 # 16 Wikis

I looked at the different wikis created by librarians. I was impressed by Teacherlibrarian wiki created by Joyce Valenza. I offers icredible resources from Cool free tools, Very cool ideas to Information Literacy. The very cool idea "The Roaming Librarian- Book a La Carte" is one that I will try promoting it at both school I work. It will give a great opportunity to show case the new books and get kids to read. I have added links to OVMS webpage :
Library Links
Book Awards and Lists
Books for Middle and High School Age

Week 6 #15 Web 2.0 Future Libraries

Browsed article by Chip Nigle- president of OCLS -" to more powerful ways to cooperate". It emphasizes that Library 2.0 and vision OCLS ... I also enjoyed reading the article 'Into a new world of librarianship' ... impact of this technology in libraries in a positive way

Week 6 # 13 # 14Tagging & del.icio.us

Wow! For the past hour I have been enjoying this great link http://ww.librarything.com/ wonderful resource for cataloging , incredible resource of list of books. Soo easy to use.