#14 (Week 6) Technorati and learn how tags work

I had a very good understanding of tags from my technology experience prior to starting this lesson. I did spent some time reviewing Technorati and playing with several tags within the Post / Blog / Video / Pictures. What I found most interesting was the statistics presented in the write up on the School Library 2.0 Blog. It is mind boggling to me that so many people spend so much of their time creating Blogs. It concerns me, as a physical educator that people are spending so much time in front of a computer screen. I will have to admit that (in phases) I am guilty myself.

#13 (Week6) Del.icio.us Tagging

I have been using del.icio.us since August 13th, 2007, AND I LOVE IT! I am not even sure if I learned about del.icio.us from Library 2.0 or if it was from somewhere else. Right now I have 347 del.icio.us links ranging from A(rt) to Y(ouTube) – sorry no “Z”. I did not know about the “Habit Seven: Move it around” from The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users I have since added my last 10 del.icio.usposts to this Blog.

#12 (Week 5) Roll your own Search Tool

A little confusing at first (probably due to fatigue on my part), but I got the hang of it. I am not sure that this program does as much as for me as my del.icio.us account, except that there is access to multiple sources from multiple people. Sometimes to much is not a good thing - or maybe it is?

#11 (Week 5) Web 2.0 Award Winners and NING

Again – I love to Play. I tried a couple of the programs: SpringWidgets www.springwidgets.com , WriteBoard www.writeboard.com and Ning www.ning.com

I was impressed with the WriteBoard and actually typed something up to send to my reading department chair. I hope that she can use this program with her students. I also created a Ning account: http://libraryevolution.ning.com/ but feel it is just one more place to keep track of. I feel like Alice falling deeper in the rabbit hole by the minute.

#10 (Week 5) Play Time

I love to Play!





What fun this is - I could spend hours upon hours playing with all the toys.

#9 (Week 4) Locate library related blogs and/or news feeds

I found Technorati to be the most user friendly of the suggested search tools. I liked the fact that they had separated Posts, Blogs, Videos and Photos. It seems easy to use, clean to read and complete in its search. Topix had an interesting feature with the timeline or what they call an “Interactive graph of “______” in the news”. Feedster seems to be down right now, so I was unable to view this site. From a search in Google it seems that this is a BETA version and is down “Version 2.1 BETA. Feedster is Changing... We'll be back up soon with exciting news!” Overall this was an interesting activity, but not something I got a great deal out of.