THING #3 - Avatar

Great little thing. I really had a lot of fun making this picture. Hard to choose what to make me look like though. Finally opted for a western theme at a school. This item really is a fun to create a picture of how we see ourselves or of how we would like to portray ourselves in some way. Probably spent most of my time creating this once Yahoo got its act together and let us in.

THING #5 - Flikr

Flikr is actually pretty fun. Great for posting pictures of various things. Could be personal or school related. Great for posting pictures of events in your library, school, etc. I could really have some fun with this when I take pictures of my students hard at work (or sometimes hardly working.) First picture used was one I found on the Flikr site. I didn't spend too much time on this as this "thing" at training, but stil had fun with it.

THING #6 - Mashups

Flikr mashups - fun little thing to create your own trading cards. This can be handy when wanting to give a basic synopsis of myself to others. Can be linked to various sites (ie: blogs). Very useful for general basic information. I did have a little trouble navigating this, probably because time was running short. Will hopefully spend more time over the next few days looking at these moer and coming up with ideas on what I can really do with this. So far, this is the one thing that has served the least purpose for me in this trainging.

Crikey!

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Crocodiles are very misunderstood creatures. Thanks to men like the late Steve Irwin, crocs are more revered and understood. Thanks Steve!

THING #4

How could this technology (blog) be used in the library?

Book club information, general library information, book reviews, etc can all be posted on this blog. I figure once I sit down and look at these things more, I can come up with different ways to use all this information or at least a good portion of it. Today was a bit of information overload. Had to go home from training and update some of these entries after my head cleared some and could give it some thought. Blogs can certainly be useful for general communication between teacher/librarian and students, parents and staff.

THING #2

The hardest item in the 7 1/2 Habits for me will be to begin with the end in mind. It is difficult for me at times to visualize that far down the road. I usually have some ideas of what I'd like, but to actually finish it the way I initially visualize it doesn't usually work.

The easeist thing for the 7 1/2 habits will be # 7 1/2 - PLAY!! I am a hand's on/visual learner. However, I learn better when I have the abilities to constantly play with something new. It seems like I will be learning a lot.

THING #1

The main things I want to learn from Web 2.0 are the things I don't already know. (Which is a lot.) Hopefully this second attempt at the blog works.