My Library

Thing #13

Our school uses outlook exchange as its mail server. I use outlook and its features all of the time. Because we can access our email from anywhere I use the outlook calendar as my main source for keeping track of both personal and work related appt. , activities, etc.

My biggest complaint about some of the items that "23 Things on a stick" have asked us to do is the amount of downloads, username accts. that we are creating. As a general practice I do not like to download "free" stuff from the internet.

I also use MSN hotmail. I setup a calendar and it did work but not as nice as the outlook calendar. I did make a igoogle home page. I quess that I don't feel that this would really be something that I would use. It also assumes that you do not share the computer with others.

Again most of these tools are nice. Students could use these tools at home but at this point I would not want them to start using them at school on school computers.

TL

Thing #12

I liked Digg and Newsvine the best of the four listed. The reason I liked them the best is because they were more like a newspaper than just a listing of articles. I felt I could determine what the article was about without have to just read the headline or click on the article before I knew what the article was about.

I think that some of these can become a productivity detractor. You can spend too much time reading the comments. Some of the comments are just....

I quess that all of this are a nice addition to the main stream media. I just hope that people continue to use all types of sources for their information.

TL

Thing #11

I setup a del.icio.us account. I will have to spend more time with Thing #11 before I can understand how it will be a benefit. I do use bookmarks for webpages. I currently have folders for my bookmarks by categories. Being as these bookmarks are only on my home computer I can see the advantage of using a website location where I can add/modify/or delete bookmarks from anywhere.

I have some issues regarding using some of these "Things" in a school library. We do not allow students (or more correctly) do not want students to personalize the computers. So far alot of the Things require adding buttons, logins, specialized home pages, etc. I think these are great tools for the students to learn and use at home but not all of them can or should be used at school.

TL

Thing #10

I used the 23Things on a stick wiki page for editing. Prior to that I linked to the MN historical Center's website via one of the test wikis. I spent quite a bit of time searching both birth and death certificates of people with my same last name and those of other relatives. It's amazing the information that is located on the internet.

I liked the idea of creating a blog so students could add the name of the books that they would like in the library. We use book displays to attract new readers for old books.

TL

Thing #9

I thought that using Google Docs was very easy. I was able to create a document, save it, then edit that same document. I was able to create a presentation, make changes, change the theme, then save and publish the presentation on my blog.

TL

Thing #9 - Online Presentation