9 of 23: I am excitied about this tool. I have been working with a group of teachers on creating curriculum that embeds a Minnesota History unit into thier Language Arts. This would be very helpful for our process as each person could edit and comment on the documents.

I used the Google Docs because I alreadu have a Google account and it seemed the easiest for me to use. I had to play some to understand how to share the information with my cohorts, but I think I have it figured out. I will know for sure when I get back to school on Monday and try it out with them.

As for the Founding Fathers, I don't think would be a concern to them. We all know copyright law, correct? That means that we cannot change a published document unless we have premission. This is just another

Number 8 of 23: I feel like I am losing my mind. There are so many tools out there that it is mind boggling. I played with some of the photo tools and had some fun. I have to admit, I got frustrated at times with the directions and the steps, but I know that my students will work through these quite easily. I thought of several uses for the slide shows. I would like to link a slide show of new books to my media center web site. Students would be able to access this at home or in class and then know what new and exciting materials are available. Another use I can see is for class presentations. Students could create their own slide shows and then by posting them on the web, classmates and family members could view them at any computer. This would be ideal for our technology class.
I tried Thunbstacks and found it quite easy to navigate. It does not have all the bells and whistles, but it did what I needed. I think this would be an easy one to teach in the middle grades and advance them to the more complicated ones as they progress through grades.
I recently completed grad classes in media technology. We each had to create and post an e-folio. I took this back to our technology instructor and now our 8th grade students are using it as one of their projects in their career investigation unit. Students have enjoyed this program and it great to see that they are beginning to understand that the steps needed to obtain employment; education, resume, portfolio.

Number 7 of 23: Email is a god-send. It has made it much easier to connect with my staff members with news of new books, scheduled events and general media information. I post a staff media newletter by attaching through email. That way, I never hear "I didn't get one." It also lets me correspond with staff members when I have time. They know that can email me and they will get an answer. If they walk into the media center, I might be with a class and the are not even able to ask me the questions. It is an essential tool of my job.
I wish we could use an online reference tool. As most of the questions would come after school hours, we do not have the funds to offer this service. As for during school hours, I am seldom at my desk, so it would not be a "live" conversation. I beleive this should be an essential tool for the college research libray or the help desk at the public library, but at this time, I cannot see it being used in my school site.
I have started a new service for my students. They can put holds on materials that are not available. As soon as they material is returned, my system notifies me of the hold. I then let the students know either through email or text messaging. I give the students the choice as some do not have access to one form of equipment or another.
I did not attend any of the webinars as I am quite familiar with them. I have done training on them in several venues. When we installed our new library system, a majority of the training was through webinar sessions. I have also participated in webinars through United Streaming. These helped me become familiar with the resources on United Streaming and I have used them to help train other staff members. I enjoy Webinars because they can be set up at convenient times that work into the schedule of the participants. Also, like the ones offered through Minitex, you as a user can decide what you want to partiicpate in and go for it.

Number 6 of 23: Now this was interesting. I enjoyed building these cards. The layout can get a little tedious as the tab keys do not work and the final product does not look like the typed input, but with a little patience, this can be worked out. I can see the students using this in many formats. A good example would be the current study of the voyageurs currently being taught at our school. The students could create their own characters and trade and collect sets. Knowing our students, they would also come up with a game that puts a value on each card. My first step will probably be with the tech department and allow this site to be accessible. I hope you enjoy my cards.

Number 5 of 23:

It's been awhile since I have been able to work on my "23 Things." Life seems to intervene with our time. But I am now back to it and ready to roll. I have to admit, I erad about all the "fun things" you can do on Flickr, but it was confusing to me. I did try some of them. I enjoyed the writing with pictures, but could not figure out how to load it to my blog. I then tried the puzzle and enjoyed that. I saved the puzzle as a picture and then uploaded that to this site. Then I realized that I could have entered the URL of either the picture or the words into the add imagfe screen and would have accomplished the same. So now I will try and see if it works for the letters. I do not know how I will use this in my school, but it was fun experimenting. Oh well, I can't get the Spelling with Flickr to load to this page, so I will just end for now.

Number 4 of 23

I have viewed my grandchildren's pictures through a professional photographer's Flickr account. Now I know how it is done. I am trying to think how I can use this professionally. It would be fun to add to my book review blog, especially over the summer so that myself and students could upload pictures on activities and news. This was a fairly easy process. I would enjoy teaching students this resource. I am also the Yearbook advisor. I coud have the students upload to Flickr and then organize the pictures into sets. This would make the searching for pictures much easier at publishing time.

Number 3 of 23: I have played with the RSS feeds before. I have to admit, that I have not used them. I am on a list serve of several organizations, and that seems to fill my time. I can see the benefit of choosing what you want sent, instead of everything coming at yu or having to chech your favorites frequently. I did set up an account and selected some "23 Things on a Stick" blogs from my region. I recognize some of the users, so it is interesting to read their comments. I have already been sharing my experiences at my school. Several teachers would like to set up classroom blogs for books reports and reviews. I would like to have one for the library where students could submit reviews or ask questions on posted reviews. Our security block will not alow Blogspot through. I am curious, does anyone know of a blog site that will make it through CIPA? I have changed my blog so that it will allow comments, as I will probably have more questions to ask.