One of the most enlightening blogs I read is on Roger Sutton’s Horn Book. Can a blogger provide buzz in advance and a review later? Does involving oneself in buzzing compromise any subsequent review? How cozy can a blog get with a publisher’s marketing strategy? What it tells me is that one need be wary [...]

The first thing I looked at was the calendar tool 30boxes I have been reluctant to have a web based calendar because I did not like the layout of the one offered with out school email.  This one is great though, Very easy to add appointments , make a short to do list for myself.  [...]

What a lot to choose from. I could learn something from everything that is posted. I choose “Parental Engagement in the 21st Century-Leveraging Web 2.0 tools to engage parents in non traditional ways I had never thought about how we tell the students what not to do and how we should be teaching them responsible [...]

These are a few great shots from “Down Under.”BubbleShare: Share photos – Easy Photo Sharing

What a great too Flickr.com is.  And what fun to just browse.  There are so many images — one could find any thing on that site.  And what an amazing way to share photos either privately or publicly. The first order of business as a teacher though is to emphasize that Flickr is a too [...]

Although I had never heard of Creative Commons it is a great idea.  We are always telling the kids to site information that they use.  But it is hard to know what is in the “public domain” and what is truly fully copyrighted.  The elementary school where I work does not have the students do [...]

Today I met with a new classmate.  Both of us are the only ones from our respective schools taking this class.  We went over tasks 8 and 9.  It was very, very helpful.   I would reccomend collaborating with someone if at all possible.  Although she was further along than I it was helpful for both [...]

Learning about wikis was great. I have used Wikipedia, as have the students. From what I can tell is it as accurate as Britannica or World book. And certainly more current than the 2006 versions that we have in the library. The use of a wiki is a great collaborative teaching tool. I especially enjoyed [...]

BLOG AWAY After having set up the required 5 blogs for this class I started to peruse the internet to find some additional blogs that would be interesting to me. As a librarian I found the Horn Book site (with Roger Sutton’s blog to be really interesting (www.hbook.com/blog).  Nearly all librarians know about the Horn [...]

This is a second test.  I think we’re getting the hang of this!