Thing #11

I really liked using LibraryThing. It will be a great way for me to keep track of the books I read. I also liked that I could rate the books and that would help me to remember what I thought about each book.

I think that LibrayThing could also be used in a school library: older & responsible students could use LibraryThing to keep track of the books they read. It would be a great way for students to keep track of Bluebonnet or Lone Star books.

I started looking into groups and was able to find many groups that had the same interests that I do. I looked up Jan Austen groups and found a huge list of groups that love the work of Jane Austen.

I also was able to add my Author cloud and LibraryThing search box to my blog (look to your right).

Thing #10

I had a lot of fun with the image generators. I created so many that I could only choose a few of them to share. The following was created at Comic Strip Generator (http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/).

I then created the following at ImageChef (http://www.imagechef.com/)



This is the one question that I get asked at least once a week by one of my library students. Let me just say: we have signs everywhere to help the students find the different sections of the library.

Thing #9

I found Blogline and Google Blog search the easiest to use when looking for feeds to add to my Google Reader. Both were easy for me because I was able to just put in a search term and then I had a list of blogs to choose from. The most confusing was syndic8.com. The page was filled with too much information and I became overwhelmed.

I was able to find a lot of useful blogs for elementary school libraries. When looking through library blogs, I was able to find the bookshelf that I added to my blog (look to your right) I also found some blogs for T.V. shows I love to watch, but sometimes miss. I also found a blog that was full of technology cartoons: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/ It was a little unusual. And to tell you the truth, I did not completely understand a lot of the cartoons I read. Once I started finding several useful sites, I started looking at the other sites that were connected to them. I found several sites by doing this.