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I’m glad to be back from my journey west for the AASL conference. I had a great time presenting to an audience of professors, researchers, technology experts, teachers, administrators, and fellow librarians, as well as attending dynamite sessions. At one of the sessions, the presenter (Joyce Valenza) mentioned some nifty web 2.0 tools I haven’t had a chance to play with yet (some I’d heard of, some I hadn’t).
If you’ve used any of the following widgets, let me know what you think of them:
- Voicethread
- The Flickr Toys Badge Maker and Motivator (and there are many others)
- Animoto
Talking to lots of librarians who share my passion for continually improving library services and research-related teaching also motivated me to move forward with more ideas I have for the MW library blog, such as integrating surveys/polls and adding search tools for finding blogs and podcasts to our bookmark account.
If you haven’t heard, check out what Coach Hall and his students at MLWGS have been doing with art news using CoRank. In addition, Mr. Benesh and his students have been using a data-sharing tool called Swivel.
What ideas do you have? Let me know!
Read gazes out at the fog-shrouded San Francisco Bay alongside this memorial to sailors (you can see the fog rolling off of the mountains in the background). You’ll find this same memorial beside Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. Have you seen this sailor in other ports?
Read enjoyed a clear sunny day beside the San Francisco Bay today, exploring Fisherman’s Wharf and Alcatraz Island. His visit to Alcatraz transported him with its educational and engaging audio tour and startled him with the unexpected beauty he found in such a rugged, inhospitable place.
How many of you read the bestselling novel Al Capone Does My Shirts (2004) in middle school? It’s about Moose Flanagan and his family moving to Alacatraz in 1935 when his father gets a job at the prison.
Stiff and weary after nearly 12 hours in airports and airplanes, Read felt rejuvenated by the beautiful view from Vista Point on the north end of the Golden Gate bridge.
