THING #23

I finished tonight--on time-- and am partly wistful and mostly glad because school starts quite soon and I want to keep my excitement and understanding. My cred is going to be a lot tighter and my ability to suggest really interesting quadrant D projects has zoomed up. And I am grateful that another district would share so willingly with me. Thank you. And I am astonished how many works of creative strength and originality are just out there for the taking.

This might be the best CPE I ever took!

THING # 22

Just when I was wishing for a community of Texas high school librarians to schmooze with and share ideas and ask for help, up jumps two nings. I really liked the 7th comment of "Seven Things etc." Meeting people where they are is the whole "ning thing", right? I wonder if I can get all the BISD secondary librarians to join the ones I'm in? Pretty fun stuff.

THING#20

OK, now I'm in trouble because I don't have any of the equipment to make either of these. I don't have them at school or at home. But maybe I can get them. Because it would be great to do a TAYSHAS Photostory or to make funny ones about how to be...like how to be cool in high school, how to be in the li-brar-eee. So, I am not truly completing this one thing, but in my heart, I am. Does that count?

THING #20

This is just to go along with my funny embedded video. Also, the creator did a good job of giving credit to the sources he used.

Welcome Back To School

THING # 19

This is addicitive! After much clicking and pondering, I conclude the best library applications for thing #19 are the photos & images and the search links. It's all fun. I think our filter would block a lot of it at school. I would consider topic by topic match-ups, for example when the kids come in to do career research there's a top voting group of sites to share.

THING#18

Working fast to get done before Edouard hits, so this is a copy of my post on thing #18, but I'm adding that I think Google Docs has wonderful potential for group work especially. "What good ideas, and I especially like sharing without external drives. Sort of wiki-ish, isn't it?I also really like the teacher/student templates in Google Docs."

THING#17

I made a nifty little searchroll for African Tribes, aresearch topic for our 9th graders. I plan to share this application with my faculty members who like to put webpage links on their teacher pages. I didn't have a lot of luck incorporating other searchrolls because none came up when I searched. Or they were not what I wanted. Still, very interesting.