Thing 14 Social Reading and Book Stuff

I do use Good Reads to keep track of the books I have read and to share reviews. It's a good resource.
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For this thing , I decided to revisit Overdrive. I'm so happy that I did. It has improved since I last tried to use it from home.  I had to dig around to find my library pin number and card, At last I was sucessful. I tried to search for a James Patterson novel and of course they had several. All of a sudden a light bulb went off and I remembered that a teacher had asked me to buy, " A Child called It"  as an ebook.

I was not able to buy it from any of my school vendors.
 So, voila ! I searched Overdrive and there it was.


I checked it out after watching the tutorial on how to use Overdrive.  I'm so excited to use Overdrive.

Thing 13 Media Skills

There are many new tools to try in this section. I'm still creating so watch for more!

Thing 13 Media Skills

I had fun creating an animated gif. However I really need some instruction in working and editing photos.
I made a quick slide suing some photos i had on my desktop. I can see that this could be beneficial for slide shows if I had better photos to work with.  Is this ho they do the slide show with the book titles on websites???
check out my first try using <make a gif.com>
http://makeagif.com/i/zZkdm0
I need to slow it down , will work on that soon.

Thing 12 LMS

I have experimented with Edmodo and I really like the possibilities. I tried to sue it with a summer technology class I taught last summer. I was not able to continue using Edmodo, as I had originally planned because the students did not have access to computers when not at school.

I am fascinated by the MOOCs and have browsed them when I needed to find information for personal needs.  I especially like the oil.cmu.edu, this is the Carnegie Mellon MOOC. I see the MOOC as the future of education. Perhaps each BOCES district should have a Library type MOOC and the area librarians could contribute to it.  I also enjoy the iTunes University MOOC and have published a lesson on Dewey on the site.


Good reads is also an excellent resource. I like to see what my friends and family are reading to get their advice on good reads.

In this thing, it appears that I have used them more for my own personal enrichment and have not really made them available to students and staff. I will try to mention MOOCS to staff.

Thing 11

I added a pin for my favorite beach, Rehoboth Beach in Delaware to the collaborative map.


I played around with the Google maps 3D version


I plan to create a QR scavenger hunt for our PBIS team. I need to work with the team to create questions. I will bring this idea up at the PBIS meeting on  this Wednesday. I will share what we create soon.

Thing # 9

Thing 9 It's been real fun
I use libguides and have found some good ideas by looking at other schools/collegeslibguides.
PHS has libguides

Lately I have been adding to a Livebinder and also have found good resources other people have collected in livebinders. Im curentl taken a class that requires me to post my work in my livebinder.
I think I will pursue Livebinders in the future

Thing  8

I used Google docs and I learned how to make quizzes really great for this.

I also started a James Patterson Pintereet for teachers that love James Patterson to respond to and post comments

Class was full of great information

I have been using alot of the cool tools thanks
will we still be able to access the blog for future reference/