Not So Distant Future

At the Internet Librarian conference, Gary Price, (who now works for Ask.com) talked about some helpful websites for use with students. Newspaper Archive is now free to teachers, libraries, and students and includes Newspaper archives back to 1759!   www.newspaperarchive.com Exalead is a new search site which has some nice “advanced features” like searching for a [...]

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I’m watching a presentation on how to use Wikis for different “in-house” uses, like for posting school policies, sharing curriculum materials within a department, etc.   A wiki is like Wikipedia–a site where anyone can easily change, add, or edit it.  Some are passworded, and some are not.  A whole campus can use it as part of [...]

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I’m now sitting in a session on using Flickr www.flickr.com for libraries, but I see a lot of applications for schools.  Some of you may already use Flickr, which is a website that allows you to post photos and “tag” them by subject, share them, etc. They showed us some tools which have great applications [...]

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I just attended a session on videoblogging and podcasting.   Although it’s easy enough to figure out what video blogging is, I hadn’t really thought about it that much. David King(of Topeka and Shawnee County Library) who has a website, www.DavidLeeKing.com/etc showed some examples of video blogs that woke me up to the kinds of creative projects [...]

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I went to several sessions today which focused on how our students are changing and need more media rich lessons.  One good session was about audiobooks and e-books. One great site for audiobooks is www.librivox.org.  It is a volunteer project with readers contributing books by reading aloud books from the public domain.  Your students could [...]

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We just finished the first workshop on blogs, wikis, RSS and podcasts.  I found out about a really cool website, www.Rollyo.com.  It lets you as a teacher or the librarian set up a “list” of recommended websites for a particular type of project.  Then you can put the link on your website so students use [...]

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I’m attending the Internet Librarian conference and am going to be blogging “live” from the conference!   That way I can share things as I go with any of you on the staff who are interested before I forget them!  Second, I will have a record of things that I learned that I can refer back to.  [...]

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