Thing 20

I use my space for personal use already to keep current with friends across the country. I did not realize that libraries were using it to connect to teen patrons. I think that is a great idea. Our school has decided because of supervision and bandwidth issues to not allow face book or my space. I can see how a library could really increase the draw of the teen group by using these social networking sites.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJlkplvYdgA

Thing 19

Podcast
Listen to one on the comics it was called Comic Library. I was just searching yahoo for a podcast and stumbled upon this site. It was interesting but not one I would subscribe to so I will keep looking. This is an easy way for information to disperse through the internet and to have feed back on what you are doing. I found the educational podcast the easiest to use but was just coming across text and no audio. I would like to find a podcast that would talk about the last books for a library and their critique of the books. I would subscribe to something along those lines.

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I really like the feature of having an RSS feed on a search. I can really see the benefits of having this feature if you were doing research on a certain topic. You would always have the most up to date information on the subject. I did follow all the directions for adding a feed to READER but it would not work for the longest time. I went in today and even though it had said my feed failed, it worked :)

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RPC and the Teacher Guide
I already introduced my english teachers to this resource last year and one tried it. It was helpful for the struggling students. I hope to intoduce it to more students this year.
I think I may have my students invovled in the inventors fair sign up for this project. Since I only see them once a week it is sometimes difficult to keep them on task in between.

Thing 15

Puzzle Pirate was interesting to explore. I have played SIM type games and also the Pop Cap type games but never together. I think I could get very addicted to this type of game. I can see why some schools might block this because it seems to take up quite a bit of bandwidth. It was blocked at my school and I went to the public library to try this out. I am sure the kids next to me were wondering what an adult is doing playing games at the library. I can also see that this type of game might be useful in learning how to interact on the online environment. It is great to see the creativity of all the computer programs out there who continue to tweek and improve.