Thing #7 Week 3 Technology Interests and Priorities

Because I am in a high school library setting, I want to motivate my 2400 students to get excited about their library. I want to learn how to do video book trailers, podcasts, and get online book discussions for my students in English and Spanish. Even though my kids are so excited about TAYSHAS and Michael Printz books, I want to know these social networking tools in order to get them truly participating in our online library community. I am attending TCEA in order to learn more fantastic things on Web 2.0. I want to learn more about folksonomies, tagging, wikis, and translate that raw energy into hooking more kids into my library.

Thing #4, Week 2 Registering Blog

I am so ready to register this blog; as a librarian I want to be able to communicate with my high school students in the medium that comes so naturally to them. So here goes...

Thing #1 Introduction and Read Blog

I am very excited about being in this course as it prepares and reinforces the skills that I am still refining using 2.0 tools. I had created a blog for my TWU class so I truly enjoy this form of medium. It reminded me of being back at TWU and enjoying all the wonderful learning opportunities that I was able to participate in.

Author Visit (ESC!)

Author Visit
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An overview of my library setting with an author visit.

Thing#5, Week 3

I took some pictures from my high school library. I had already created a Flickr account. Hope you like my picture for ESC1.

Thing#6 Week 3

I had used Flickr before for a class that I took at TWU two summers ago, but I had never used mashups. Aside from the fun and the absolute originality of it all, I got a chance to see how I can use the trading cards to help my freshmen students know different print reference tools. Using them as flash cards, students can identify the specific reference book where a famous quote can be found.

Thing #3 Week 2

Creating an avatar was fun and also hilarious; when does one get to play "dress up" and have this much fun without buying a single item??

Thing #2 Habits of Effective Learning

The hardest habit for me to incorporate is in viewing problems as challenges. I can get very nit-picky and nerve-wrecked in trying to finish with perfection and that is almost guaranteed to bring unneeded frustration. The easiest habit for me to incorporate is to teach and mentor others because seeing someone else's "lightbulb" moment is indeed a truly gratifying experience.