Sunday, October 5, 2008

Thing 2:Library 2.0

Today is a great day weather-wise to spend some time on the 23 Things. With Library 2.0, there certainly are a lot of things to think about here. Of primary importance: how do I utilize web 2.0 tools to reach my high school students and educate my teaching colleagues? I have a lot of work and exploration ahead of me on this one. I am excited about a couple of things Abram mentioned; Western Trails, GoogleReader (which I am currently working on) and Meebo. The other two articles were just more food for thought on how to begin incorporating Web 2.0 tools into librarianship.
I spent some time today setting up my GoodReads account (monimoni) and entering a few of the many books sitting on my book shelf: you can't believe how many I entered as "to read". I happen to have a scanner here that I use for doing hockey registration and it worked really well for reading ISBN numbers. Slick! I entered 46 book, 45 of which I have not read (some I have started, and lost track of where I was, others Ihaven't even cracked. I am a bit of a collector, but find little time to read. Might even have less as I embark on this 23 things thing. I then spent some time setting up googlereader in my igoogle account, and looking for some rss feeds of interest. Have Library Technology Trends and School Library Journal feeding in from our Gale database, yea!

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Thing 1

Task complete. Now I am on a mission to figure out how to get my rss feeds set up on my iGoogle. Perhaps I am jumping ahead of myself here, but what the heck, feet first, full steam ahead, no holds barred, etc.

Here I go: on a stick

I have just come back from the MEMO 2008 Fall Conference (great job conference committee) and was inspired to check out the 23 Things on a Stick challenge by several people at the conference. I have to say that the session I attended today, facilitated by Patricia Post and presented by 3 experienced 23 Thingers (2 from Elk River and 1 from Hopkins--sorry I can't remember your names), was my motivation to come home and start this up. So thank you for being my inspiration and motivation.

Step one: create the blog. I have done this before--a personal blog that I rarely add to--but I decided to create a separate blog that would get me through the 23 Things on a Stick challenge. The hardest part of this is inventing a blog name! Mission accomplished and I am off and running with the 23 Things.