Thing 19: Google Docs

My only experience with google docs was when one of our librarians took the time to put all of our collaboration files on there. She spent a lot of time doing it and then was told we were going to be moving to blackboard. The problem was that google docs wouldn't upload publisher files. I think that's interesting since it is one of the office programs. This is a very nice way to allow people to access information. I like that you can allow people to view only or view and edit files.

This would be a good way for our prinicpals to post information and have teachers access it and add information. In the library the only real reason I see so far to use it would be to collaborate with others.

Thing 18: Wiki's

I have worked in wikis without knowing what they were. I like that anyone can add to these if they are set up correctly. I think this would be an interesting way to have students write poetry, creative writing, even book reviews for a classroom teacher to grade. It would be nice to be able to log in from anywhere and grade them. I need practice in setting up a wiki so I could do it myself or help a teacher do it.
I know we can use wetpaint are there other sites that are even easier to use for creating wikis?

Thing 17 LibWorm

This is also a new tool for me. There were some links that were no longer working. In fact the first three I chose were that way...but then it got better. I had a hard time locating what I was looking for. I am not sure how to narrow down my search enough using LibWorm. I had a hard time locating useful information about the topics I searched for.

Thing 16 LibraryThing

LibraryThing has some neat discussions going on. Other than that I didn't see a whole lot that I would want to use. I do like that I can put inmy location and see upcoming events. That might be beneficial too....time will tell....
Did someone else find some part of this really useful for them? Please share, I feel like I must have missed something!

Thing 15 Digg

I have never heard of Digg before so this was a NEW experience!

An interesting new title I read..."Women spend nearly one year deciding what to wear"
Yes ladies, that's right.... according to a UK newspaper the average woman spends approximately 287 days choosing clothes during the course of their life time....

Another neat title: "The 10 coolest Things We Saw at the MythBusters Studio"
http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/10_coolest_things_we_saw_mythbusters_studio_0?page=0%2C0

The only problem with this site is that it is really easy to find content that is not appropriate for younger eyes. I work in an elementary school and I would have to mark the links I wanted and not use the actual digg site to show information becuase it seems like on every page there is an inappropriate link or inappropriate picture.

Thing 14 Delicious

I had seen delicious before but I had never created an account because I always saved library links at work and personal links at home. With so many of these new tools we have learned with the 23 things I have several tools I want to be able to use anytime. Now I can see how delicious will help me....and it will save me the frustration of not having the work link at home and the home link at work....

Here is my delicious page:
http://delicious.com/greenstephanie80

Thing 13 - Tagging

I love tagging items so the can be found easily. I do this all the time in my online catalog. I create lists of books that I know I am going to have to pull again for a teacher/ grade level/ or project. I would love to be able to "tag" a book with a teacher's name/ lesson idea, etc for others to see and to be able to easily pull it up. Our librarians could really network indistrict if we could tag a book with a grade level and teaching concept. It would make lesson planning SO easy!