beccablog, teacher-librarian

I wasn’t able to go to NECC – but I saw this link on a blog about the presentation of the many librarians.   I plan to take a look at this when time permits. 

http://necclibrarians08.wikispaces.com/

Two videos explaining Wiki & RSS.   Possible great way to help others begin using these things.

Wiki in Plain English:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLYttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

RSS in Plain English:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

More ideas to return to later, but I will post for now… 

from Kathy Schrock’s Blog:

yourminis
bubbl.us
peepel

Joyce Valenza created a wiki – You know you are a 21st Century Librarian if….

Later…

Contact your Senators and Representatives to support S. 1699 & HR 2864. 

See link for more information:  http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslissues/SKILLs_Act_TP.cfm

“Strengthening Kids’ Interest in Learning and Libraries (SKILLs) Act that guarantees students across America will be served by highly qualified, state-certified school library media specialists and will have the library resources they need to succeed.”

Summer is here!  It is difficult to sit down and think about ‘school stuff’.  While I am and spending time revamping the web page for August, I am still reading my bloglines account entries.  I find great things, but I am not intentionally diving into each thing.  So I decided to post them on my blog and then I can go back. 

 Here a couple of neat things:

1.  Did You Know 2.0 Update (From Karl Fisch)

2.  In Read/WriteWeb - listing of note-taking 2.0  

MindMapping