Anne in Central Park

Anne in Central Park,
originally uploaded by foothillibrarian.

I have sucessfully stored a photo at Flickr, I gave it tags, and have now created a posting template for my blog. What do you think?

Week 3 Thing #7

Technology. I have been on a tech roller coaster for the past year. I went from a 15 inch TV to a very large flat screen with satellite and TIVO and DVD player. I have a new refrigerator with a water dispenser and an ice maker. From no computer in my house to two. And I am loving every minute of it! I have learned how to tame all of it so that it is serving me and not the other way around.

Now Library & Classroom Learning 2.0. As I begin to explore each of the new tools I feel like it is adding more work but after working with it week after week and sharing what I learn with my friends and colleagues I am beginning to see that I can tame all of this as well.

Our school's yearbook is created online. My students and I can work on it anywhere we have a computer with internet access. We were able to start before the school year began and our work can continue whether we are at home or at school or on vacation. All photos are digital and can be immediately put online and placed into the book. Learning 24/7. This is the kind of experience I want to create with the 2.0 tools we are learning about now.

Week 2 Thing 3

I created this blog a week ago and still no comments :( I am happy to have it set up though and ideas for using blogs with students are going through my head. I attended the CLMS Conference last weekend and went to as many tech sessions as I could. What great and exciting teaching is happening in middle schools. I registered this evening. Tomorrow the rest of my colleagues at school will be creating their blogs. Hopefully after that I will get comments :)