Thing 7

e-mail
I use this to communicate with my fellow teachers to share new books and other items of interest.

IM and TEXT messaging
I have not really used this in my work setting because both are not allowed in my school for the students. I use them only as a personal tool outside of work.

Which OPAL or MINITEX Web conference (Webinar) did you attend? How was it? What do you think o this communication tool?

I went to serval webinar but my farvorite was the one about WorldCat I really enjoyed this new online tool and how I could even add it to my webpage for easy access.

Thing 6

I think this was the easiest to do of all the items I have done so far. This would be great if I owned a color printer at school to print of for bookmarks ect...

Thing 5

This was very fun to upload the picture and have it turn into a puzzle. I think I will use this tool more next year. Finding time to play/learn has been a challenge.

Reading is GREAT!

My creation
Originally uploaded by medcenter

This was fun to create and very easy

Reading

Reading
Originally uploaded by medcenter

Thing 4

Flikr this area I was not as familiar with and took some time to learn the different views of the pictures and then how to attach to my blog. I had tried several times to blog a photo and I guess Blogger and Flickr were not working well together at the time. Finally manage to upload a photo today. HURRAH. I was very frustrated for awhile and kept reading the directions to see what I had done wrong. I would love to have my media center photos uploaded on this site so I could access them from anywhere. My only concern would be to remember to keep the photos private so that any photos of students is not in the public domain.

Thing 3

RSS: It took me a little while to understand how to subscribe to a feed. I like the fact that this technology will grab just the new things and show it to me like an e-mail. I kind of feel that I might get overwhelmed if I were to subscribe to very many of them. I see this would be a great thing for teachers to use to see if students had done anything new on a particular topic. It might be a great way to show other people in a school building the new books available in the library. I have been thinking of setting up a blog for the Media Center and I might just add an RSS feature to it. I think the blog might be more focused on new books or student book reviews. Hmm... something to ponder.