Thing #13

I'm not sure that I'm completely on the Delicious bandwagon yet. Sure, it's great to be able to get bookmarks on other computers, but I can do that on iGoogle too. I did make a personal account, and I think I might like poking around in other people's bookmarks occasionally, but it's just not thrilling me.

I also set up an account for my library, however, and that could be very useful. I can encourage teachers to add bookmarks in various subject and research areas, and I can do the same. I can set up certain tags for students to use on projects, rather than having them start from scratch with searching. This could turn out to be a very useful tool. I will have to see how it goes. At a previous campus, I maintained files of hotlists on the school server for teachers to use, which was a lot of work. Delicious would make this easier. We'll see how it goes.

Thing #5

I poked around in the libraries section on Flickr. It's interesting how many libraries want to post pictures of themselves and invite others to post their pictures of the library. I searched elementary library to see what I could find there, and got lots of pictures from librarians of the things they are doing at their libraries. This will be a great place for me to look for ideas to jazz up my program. I am so not good at decoration and making things cute. I found this picture of some shelving displays that I may try to replicate. Once I get back onto my campus, I need to check and see if Flickr makes it through the Alief firewall (it's pretty tight!). If so, this may be a good place to send teachers who want pictures for classroom and student use. I'll have to inservice them on the Creative Commons copyright levels when I do my regular copyright talk in the fall.