Week 5 Thing #11 Web 2.0 Lists

I had so much fun making images that I decided to add a poll. My husband was very amazed. He thought my license plate and Alien were neat. He doesn't know how simple they are to make.

Web 2.0 lists

I am a big user of craigslists. I find lots of neat info, job leads, and I also can post ads for my CPR & First aid business for free. Glad to see craigslist is a winner. I have also used YELP for health club and doggie daycare reviews, and you tube to watch music videos. I am such a numbut that I don't watch much tv. Yahoo answers was neat to explore because it helped answer some silly reference questions I had about online cpr/first aid training, bad checks, and poisoning for pets. I liked looking at the short list because it saved me time getting to what I needed.
I am the kind of person that if a category does not interest me i may or may not glance at it.

NING
I hate being called a librarian or media specialist. I prefer the term LMT (Library Media Teacher) because i am a teacher. hey I also have a multiple and single subject and have taught at all three levels K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. I also was not sure what NING was so i looked at one of my fellow LMT's website and the definition that they got was (Wikipedia said, "Ning is an online platform for creating social websites and social networks. The websites running on its service are built in standard PHP and the platform itself is built in Java").

In the past I joined some yahoo groups but found that I got more junkmail then i wanted. At least with Teacher-Librarian NING I can just check on to see if I get mail and I also thought it was cool that I could add my avator as my picture. One of the fellow LMT's in my district also joined. It may be neat to meet some new friends and share ideas. Who knows maybe it could also lead to job links if every decide to move. One day we will have to because our one bedroom condo is getting too small for two of us and a dog and we do want a child. Now I may be even more of a numbut with teacher-librarian ning.

Week #5 : Thing #10 -Online Image generator

I tried www.imagenerator.org It was easy to use and insert different text. The only problem was that I did not find a lot of images that i liked. One of my favorite tween/teens author is Madeline L'engle. I read A swiftly Tilting Planet in 5th grade. My sister and I fought over who could keep the book in their room because we liked it so much. The time quintet consists of five books.
I found the first two A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door hard to read.A Swiftly Tilting Planet is my favorite. Charles Wallace travels back in time on a unicorn, goes back into other people's lives and changes things for the better. Many Waters goes back to the the time of Noah's Ark and An Acceptable Time goes back to the ancient druids. Madeline L'Engle is still alive at age 89.

I also tried www.imagechef.com As you can see i made a license plate from my home state with my tribe's name. This could be a neat activity for the kids to do when doing state reports as they may not know what the license plate from another state looks like. I remember the old road trip game of trying to keep track of what different license plates cards had. Wonder why there was not a California one?

I made a trading card in a earlier post with Flickr toys.

Comic strip generator was also fun. I could see making signs in the media center or classroom and also having the students make a saying for their character. I had a lot of fun with this exercise. I was not into images before this, but now had a blast making new things.

Thing #9 Week 4 Locate a few useful School Library elated blogs/ newsfeeds

Hey Jude is a very creative blog, but then again it looks like she has a background in digital media. I also liked the have fun with english 2 ! blog from portugal. Both have lots of eye catching graphics. Maybe one day my blog will get that good. Who knows!

Feedster needs to change their color scheme. The btight green drives my eyes crazy.
Topix.net is good for city searches. i typed in several Alameda county cities and got neat information. Syndic8.com did not appeal to me tried to type in school libraries got nothing. Technorati ok searches worked fine. Google Blog search ( the best, simplest and easy to use my first choice)Blog pulse also easy to use but font is small. I also watched Technorati tutorial. It made more sense, but i think I will stick to Google Blog search. Its easy and simple for me to use and since I also have google reader why not keep everything the same!!! It was neat to do a search on school library learning 2.0 and get to see others blogs that i missed. Well i am halfway there soon to start Week #5.

Week #4, Thing #8: Learn about RSS feeds and set up a blog reader account

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. I set up a Google reader account because I found it to be the easiest to use and the videos actually made sense to me. Each week I say that I am never going to make it through this course because it is getting hard and then I figure it out. I set up feeds to three of my co-workers blogs and also for three authors that i like. I probably will link up more authors and co-workers. I find RSS to be a time saver, because unless I have time to search and remember the URLS for everyone's blog I don't get to read everything and often spend more time reading when I finally do have some free time.

I think RSS can be used in the classroom. If the teacher assigns students to do blogs it makes it easy to check to see that the students are doing the work without having to remember to type in each URL. Google reader is very simple to use. I tried loading webistes to google reader but had problems I'll have to look at it more ro learn how.

Angela Knight: Mageverse books

I found Angela Knight by accident. I read Christine Feehan's Dark Secret and the genealogy chart said that Rafael De La Cruz's brother Riordan had a story in the anthology Hot Blooded. Hot Blooded also had a novella by Angela Knight called "Seduction's Gift". I did not like it at first--too many sex scenes and I did not get the plot, but then when I picked up Masters of the Night, things made more sense.

Angela Knight created the Mageverse world. She gave a twist to the King Arthur legend. her Merlin is an alien from another planet who traveled to earth to find protectors, men and women who would give anything to protect everything. When men drink from the holy grail they become Magi (vampires) and women become Majae ( witches). The Mageverse Earth has Avalon, the city for Magi and Majae, dragons, the Sidhe (faerie) and dragons. They can gate to earth. Merlin also created the Direkind ( shapeshifting werewolves) who live on earth if the Magi and Majae get out of control. These magical characters can live forver if they don't get killed. Magi and Majae can reproduce with humans. Their offspring become Latents. Not all latents can become Magi or Majae and some remain mortal.

"Seduction's Gift", features Lancelot and the granddaughter of Morgana La Fray. Master of the Night is about an American Magi that has been around since George Washington's time. Master of the Moon is the story about Llyr, king of the faeries, and Diana London, a Direkind, who is also a city manager on Mortal Earth. Master of Wolves features another Direkind, Diana's brother Jim who masquerades as a police K9 to investigate a corrupt police departement. Two AnthologiesBite features "Galahad", a story about one of King Arthur Knights now Magi and Over the Moon features another Direkind romance. Master of Swords features another one of Arthur's Knight Gawain and his dragon friend Kel who is trapped in a sword.

The newest book Master of Dragons is the most exciting. Kel, the dragon knight, is now out of the sword and lving as a human in Avalon. He has to travel to earth to rescue Nineva, who is half Sidhe, half human. This book takes us to earth, the dragonlands, the Sidhe kingdom, and Avalon and we meet characters who have been in all books again.

Mrs. Knight is the wife of a police officier and a former reporter. She is an erotic fantasy writer. Her books are steamier than Susan Grants books and for adults only. They are fun to read.

Thing #7: Anything about technology that interests me

I think blogs are neat. Three of my co-workers are also doing Library 2.0 and it is so neat to learn more about people by reading their blogs. It is also so cool to get comments. i wrote to one of my favorite authors Pc Cast and told her about my blog and she viewed it and left a comment. I am enjoying checking out my blog and reading comments that others write. it makes me feel special that someone else is reading my blog. Don't laugh but until I took this course I never knew how easy and fun it would be to make a blog.

I am also having fun with trading card maker. I can share and write about pictures that I like. Blogging is now one of my favorite things

Thing #6: Flickr Fun

Wow I made a trading card!!! I love teaching American Red Cross Pet First Aid and CPR for dogs and cats. It helps that my Milo doggie had two eating emergencies, one choking, one dog fight, and one bleeding dew claw and I knew what to do until I got help for him. I am an instructor for both American Red Cross and American Heart Association. My next goal is to become a red cross babysitting instructor as right now I can teach all lay levels of first aid and CPR.

I think next fall my students could make mission, state, animal or famous people trading cards. That is if I can figure out how to explain how to make trading cards