School in the Summer: My Digital Story

Above is the movie I created using Photo Story 3 for Windows. I hope you enjoy it! If you have difficulty viewing it above, you can view it here.

Big Huge Labs

This billboard was created using Big Huge Labs. You can use Big Huge Labs to create your own motivational poster, id badge, movie poster, magazine cover, trading card, or "warholize" yourself. I found this beautiful photo of the downtown Seattle Public Library taken by Surrealize on Flickr.

Students can use Big Huge Labs to create their own unique projects!

Wordle

I created this word cloud using wordle. These terms are all associated with information literacy. These are the skills I hope to teach my students as a library media specialist.

Wordle can be used to display terms students have brainstormed together in an attractive and creative, but quick way. Students can create their own word clouds to present their individual thoughts as well. Word clouds can be generated by summarizing a topic from key terms they have learned and should remember.

Social Networking in the Library Media Center

Using social networking tools such as Twitter, Nings, Delicious, and LibraryThing make the life of the library media specialist easier and enhances student learning. Twitter allows library media specialists to communicate with other library media specialists, experts, and teachers for valuable resources and advice. Nings also allow library media specialists to network with others by offering specific social networks that suit the same professional interests and goals. These two social networking sites allow us to develop our knowledge and skills so we can then pass this information onto our students.

Delicious is a unique tool because not only is it a social network, but it also bookmarks websites. No longer do students, teachers, or library media specialists have to worry about using a network of computers and not being able to save websites to your favorites. Here, websites are saved, tagged, and shared so that it's easier for the user and others to find useful websites.

LibraryThing allows a user to catalog their own collection and share it online. LibraryThing can be used to advertise new materials in a library media center collection to parents, students, and teachers. Like the other social networking tools, LibraryThing makes the library media center more efficient.