Happy Places

My Zoho writer document

Where are our happy places? Are they a real place? A time in history? Just being with someone?

I have many happy places, pretty much anywhere with my family, a certain summer in my teen years, the church where I married my husband, a really great book! The happy places are endless. But the one truly happy place where cares would just fly away would be on a beach on a warm summer day just watching the waves that is a truly happy place for me!

Thing #19

Library thing is a cool site I enjoyed it. I put 11 of some of my favorite books under my account and it was interesting looking at the comments about those titles. I really like the images, links, recommendations, ratings and popularity. Some of my titles were very popular. All my books had a high rating (of course!) some had lots of members and a couple not so many. I liked that I could change the cover of my book so that it matched the copy I owned. The group links were fun to go on and see what others are talking about. Harry Potter is definitely the most talked about under the 4 groups I went to. I liked that the Hogwarts Express group are reading each book and conducting discussions by groups of chapters, very fun to read peoples thoughts and insights to a book. I can't for some reason figure out why the link isn't working on my page it seemed fairly simple, which means it is and I messed it up somehow but I can't figure it right now and will look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow!http://www.librarything.com/ltsw/mySearchWidget.

okay maybe this one will work...

Thing #18

Zoho writer is great for a writing tool. I like its features and the idea of sharing is great. the emotion cons are fun and I played around with the image feature some. I posted my test document to my blog, it's not much but good enough to play around. I could see this being used for those that don't have word or works. And being free is also a plus.

Thing #17

Good site I like the wikis what a great way too share. It was a nice refresher to go back and look at what has been done helped set it in the brain again. I would love to use wikis both in school and between us at LMS sure would be a nice way to share ideas!

Chapter 10

I must be crazy but I went on to read chapter 10 as my choice chapter. I do have to say that this textbook is one of the most interesting that I have read. I chose to learn more on different sites that the text highlighted as I felt these would be good sites to look and explore for the school setting. This chapter is well worth a note, it does talk about sites that we have already covered in this class but it gives more also it has a step by step approach, see Blogmeister: on page 202 or why you might want to visit a certain site such as Photo story 3 on page 200. Tux paint looks like something I can use with little guys especially as it does supply color pages. Num Sum was easy to work and manipulate which is nice as excel always frustrated me when I wanted to get rid of or change things I never really got what I wanted. Num Sum didn't give me exactly what I wanted in the time I gave myself to play with it but I did get close with no frustration. I would recommend chapter 10 as a high-light and refresher for just everything that we have been doing.

Thing #16

Wikis are great and this is the tool I think would benefit me in promoting, sharing and collaborating with the teachers, parents and student in my school. I would love to see a site for LMS and our community of school and public libraries to have wikis also. The wikis that I explored were the teacher/librarian wiki, it was okay I was disappointed that when I looked under lesson plans for books it turned out to be mostly work sheets, ugh! Booklovers wiki I liked the children's book reviews that were reviewed by the kids not adults. But probably the most interesting wiki I came across was under library bloggers wiki I went to school libraries and then visited California Dreamin about school libraries by Rob Darrow his site was interesting and informative but he had something else which was the YouTube lecture given by Randy Puasch who did the "Last" lecture, Randy passed away today so I went ahead a watched his lecture from September 7,2007 it is a 1:16 minute lecture and WOW what a speaker. Well worth the time to listen.

Thing #15

Of the perspective reading that I looked at the one I wish to comment on is, Away from the Icebergs, his thoughts on the "just in case" collection is an area that I have been working on in my library the staff area I didn't even think to look to see what is available for the older stuff online that can be accessed by the teachers or maybe even scan them onto a CD for access that way! I am well aware that I need more education on the newest and latest tech. I think with the implementation of blog sites a library community could help each other address the need and prepare for the needs of our patrons in our community. I will always feel that a library (especially in a school setting) is needed and I'm not talking job security for me I just feel that a library too many is a safe and peaceful retreat to a world that is already hectic, loud and demanding. What is important to the future of libraries is yes provide access to online and new technology tools but to still provide a retreat to breathe and explore without demands or rush.
The direction that a library is going with technology is needed. I feel that it has always been a libraries job to house the newest and greatest forms of information. Our job isn't changing a library it is evolving a library and we as librarians have to evolve with it. The goal of a library has always been to house information so our house is all that is changing not the goals. For me this means just realizing that the library needs to keep up with the demands, I will still promote as always but in new and what looks like a fun direction. I will look more to spending my budget on tech vs information books which the information or subject in them is available online. I need more education on the techno toys and that is where my focus will be so that I can strengthen my library to as always serve my school community.