Monday, October 19th, 2009

KASL Presentation, October 2009

Presentation Notes from Friday, October 16, 2009
I presented using CoolIris and then uploaded to Slideshare.  No audio this time.  My colleague, Amanda Davis, led the Widgets presentation – I will post the link below as well.  Look for “how-to’s” with widgets from Amanda soon!

Library 2.0
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Widgets http://prezi.com/ctt8owlrfx_f/
Links:
Library [...]

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Top Ten Tools

1. iGoogle: A great place for all my feeds. For students, they can easily customize the page for their needs AND place our widgets on the page.
2. Twitter: I receive so much information from Twitter. New ways to get information into the hands of students by posting on our website too. twitter/bvwlibrary      twitter/beccamunson
3. Google Reader: [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Web site and advocacy

I added a Twitter feed on the library web page.  Why?  Well, I was reading my blogline feeds today and saw a recent post from Hey Jude, a powerpoint from Nathan Wright and Hilary Brown discusses Library 2.0 .  Although a lot of the information is directed to public libraries, the examples of how public [...]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

TagCrowd & Wordle – Educational

This is a double-post from the JAG Stacks newsletter blog for teachers at staff at West. 
With new 2.0 tools, there are new ways to visualize text that can possibly enhance understanding and engage students.
 
Tagcrowd and Wordle provide visual representations of words. 
 

How can it be used?  Go to SIRS Researcher, Election 2008, and copy-paste [...]

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Presentation @ KLA

My colleague, Amanda Davis, and I presented at the Kansas Library Conference this year.  Our presentation, Power of Publishing, addressed how publishing students work through Web 2.0 tools can motivate students and truly impact their learning.   Information from the presentation was posted to a wiki http://power2publish.wikispaces.com/ .  If anyone uses these tools, please let us know – we [...]