RSS feed goddess

I tried all week to get an RSS feed to my wiki. I talked to my techie guy, Whitney, and he couldn't figure it out. I showed him the Feedity site, he shrugged and moved on, he's a good guy, really. I was reading the UCET newsletter for a blog assignment for my eMints assignment. There it was, an article about creating a RSS feed. I went to www.make-rss-feed.com. I followed the instructions and snap there it was. I got my RSS feed. Now I have to tell you, as I was coming home to work on this, because it required doing a download, and I didn't want to do this at school, I ran into one of the college students that works with the after school care program. I told him I was going home to work on creating a RSS feed for my wiki. He was impressed, called me a "modern woman", unlike his mother, he was impressed that I knew what an RSS feed was. Ahhh, how sweet it is to be an RSS Goddess!

Thingy 6 Skype

We didn't have to really say anything about Skype, but it is such a cool site. I said a bit about it in in my Twitter blog. I tend to use iChat more, just because it is on the Mac, and my son in Pittsburgh touches base with us several times a week on iChat. It is pretty much the same thing as Skype. I don't like all the ads that pop up with Skype, like the one the other day we got about how Russian women are so much better than American women, and they had a source for us to talk to the Russian women. No thank you. My principal was talking to me about Skype the other day and how she felt it could help with collaboration with the Sorsenson Art Grant. I was glad that I knew something about it and could talk to her about using it as a useful collaboration tool.

Thingy19 Woo Hoo!

This has been an experience! Who would have ever thought that I would have a blog let alone actually blog on it. It has been interesting, I am not sure that I can say "fun", although it was fun. I have learned so much, and if anything, I have learned that I can do this and it can be very useful to me and to my job as a librarian. I just wonder if I will take the time to keep this up? I feel that it can be labor intensive, but if I take a look at it once or twice a week and put some thoughts or ideas into it I could manage this. There are a few of the thingys that I don't know that I will use much. I don't really see myself using Rollyo, Twitter, or Technorati, but who knows? I really like the Books from my Library Thing. What a great, quick way to share book ideas. I am so visual anyway, it just fun to look at. I do have fun with the Bloglines, and having a quick check up on news, book, and library issues. I have learned how to post videos, pictures, and how to make a wiki. That was much easier that I had first expected. I really like my wiki, I just don't think I will be able to use it with students. I am meeting with one of our district media specialist on Thursday, I will ask. I do have a Flickr account, and it is nice to know that I have another source for obtaining images, or getting my images out there. I liked the podcasting, it is great to use for getting NPR and programs that may be airing when I do not have a chance to listen to them on the radio. It is fun really to find podcasts that are done by the average Joe and listen to their ideas and thoughts. Since it is not a produced program with sponsors, anyone can get their ideas out there. This has been good for me.

Thingy13/14

I was in checking my account and couldn't find my thingy 13 or thingy 14. Panic....what happened to it. I searched through all of my thingys and couldn't find them. I remembered doing these things but decided I must have written and didn't save or post. So here I go again. I have a Bloglines account and there were tons of updates. How cool was that!? I have a few sites that I am following. I love the news and it is great to go in and catch quick updates, especially when I don't have time to sit and watch the news, this is a great way to quickly catch up. For instance there was a story today in the BBC News that featured a clip about Prime Minister Brown making a comment about an interview with a "bigoted woman", without his knowing his mic was still on and taping, whoops! In the Library Journal there was a news clip about a Florida Mom that wants the YA books to be segregated and labeled, not she says to ban books, just to inform young people what they are about to read. Not a bad idea, or is it? I also am subscribing to learning 2.0 and some blogs on art, design, books, and food. How could I leave out food. This is really a fun site. My problem is that I need to be sure to go in and check out the sources, but they are great and a quick easy way to get information. Oh, did I mention that John Grisham is publishing a kid book called, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer. I can't wait to read that. He has a sneak preview of the first chapter on Penguin. Get peeking. I think the only thing that I don't like about this is there is so much information, like being hit with a tidal wave of news, but I can read what I want and be directed to other sources of information on topics of interest very easily.

Booktalks

I wanted to post my book talks that I did on the topic of stories underground. I hope that you enjoy because I did, and it was pretty fun to make. The books are all great books and I highly recommend anyone reading them.

2010 Story Book Characters at Wasatch Elementary

Here are the entries for the 2010 Story Book Characters at Wasatch Elementary School for the National Library Week. We have done this as a tradition at Wasatch for many years and it has become a favorite event at our school. The students from kindergarten to the sixth grade participate. The students are invited to create a story book character from a book they have read or had read to them. They make their creations from many creative materials and the work is all to be done by the students themselves. There were 90 entries this year, the most we have ever had. There are three entries chosen as winners for each grade level and these students are awarded a book. Every student who enters a story book character gets a book mark. The teachers that did the judging this year had a very difficult task and were impressed by the quality of work this year. Thank you to all of the students that participated this year. Come in to see our entries at the library. They will be on display through May 21st.