Week Eight

WE have been working on curriculum renewal this summer at two workshops. I presented two documents to our librarians - the original and a revision that a group of us worked on in two summer workshops. I have now posted them on Google Docs and have invited all librarins in the district to comment. Let's see how this works for collaboration.

I am starting a biography unit with my sixth graders and wondered if Library Thing would be a good place to put the suggestions for the students. I will do a test with Destiny and with http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bauwarter

Week Seven C

I am hoping to have our Reading Olympics team members comment and add questions to our wiki http://mmwreadingolympicswiki.wikispaces.com/
We tried blogging last year and hope that this will have the kids become more focused on their responses to their books.

Week Seven B

I really like trading cards in BigHugeLabs. I think I will start the year with sixth graders selecting a biography and we will take a photo of them with their book - I like to do a Get Caught Reading poster at the beginning of the school year. The second week of school they can write a review and we can creat a trading card in BigHugeLabs. This should be fun.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
I may have the students make puzzles, too.

Week Seven A

Personal Learning Networks.
Will Richardson suggests that we network with others and develop personal learning networks.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html
The above link give some great information about this. Maybe I will have teachers in my workshop create a blog and they will share their learning with others in the group and the blogsphere.

Week Seven

I have been reading lots of blogs and learning about technorati. Guess I will give this a try here. I have been also getting ready to present a workshop to teachers and librarians in my district. It is called Get Your Brain In Gear for a Great School Year. I found a great idea for a lesson plan in one of my email newsletters and adapted a lesson to start off the year with. We will be having author Mike Thaler who wrote the Black Lagoon Books. I found music at RoyaltyFreeMusic.com
and also recorded myself reading from the Librarian From the Black Lagoon. I added pictures I found on the web. I hope to have my sixth graders create movie maker projects on his other books and have the second graders draw pictures that we can scan.
I can't wait to share some of the web 2.0 tools with the teachers and librarians at the workshop.
I also joined http://library20.ning.com/group/elementarylibrarians20
Here is the link to my bookmarks.



SJLibrary2.0

Week six

I went to http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Webtools4U2Use - This is great!
And added myself to a map of other librarians on frappr.com
Went to animoto and made a movie of fjords of Norway and posted it on my facebook page and sent an invitation to my kids.
I watched the teacher tube videos "Vision of K-12 Students Today" and Did You Know?
I started a Web2.0 webpage linked from my school library page at http://www.crsd.org/5034298164240/site/default.asp
My summer workshop for teachers and librarians will definitely reflect what I am learning in this course. I am sure we will use my bookmarks in de.licio.us

I COULD PLAY ALL DAY!
From reading other blogs in from my RSS feeds I learned about Wordle. I just had to try this. I pasted in an article that I have submitted to School Librarians Workshop for publication about my Movie maker project with sixth graders learning about the Olympics.

Week Five

Week 5 July 16, 2008

I have been playing around with photos. I made a caption for a statue of Snowshoe Thompson. We saw this when we did a side trip from Reno at AASL.

http://www.fototrix.com/comics/?extra=egg2&text=I+carried+mail+over+the+mountains+on+skiis%3F+Who+am+I%3F