Comment by Nancy White on April 8, 2009 at 10:56am

A great resource to find out how librarians and other educators are using Twitter is the Twitter 4 Teachers Wiki. Visit some of the librarians profile pages that you see listed. I am following 2 school districts who use Twitter as a communication tool with their parent community.

Comment by Laura Berdichevsky on April 17, 2009 at 9:54am

Another great resource for librarians is healthfinder.gov. I've heard their flash tutorial for librarians is especially helpful (http://www.healthfinder.gov/tutorial/default.asp#librarian).

fyi- they're also on twitter, @healthfinder

Comment by Tracy Richards on July 8, 2009 at 6:23pm

I am going 2.0 with a presence on the web, but can't decide between wiki or blog.
I would like to include: librarything, online booking of labs, pathfinders, etc

Which would be better?

Comment by Katharine C. Adams on July 28, 2009 at 3:02pm

I am part of a media specialist cadre who will be presenting on Web 2.0 during our preschool in-service. I was suppose to create a PPT to introduce Web 2.0 but when I heard about Prezi, I made a Prezi instead! Please take a look at it at http://prezi.com/136374/ and give me some feedback/suggestions! I am very new to this Web 2.0 "thing" but am really excited about what I am learning this summer. If you see anything that needs changing, please let me know. At this point it is still a draft...

The way to view it is:
1. Open the file
2. Maximize the screen
3. Use the mouse to click on any empty spot on the screen (to bring presentation into full view)
4. Click on the gray bracket around the Yo...CAB portion of the presentation
5. Click on the right arrow key in the lower right corner of the screen repeatedly to work your way through the entire presentation.

Thanks again for your input!
:)Kathy

Comment by Anne Robinson on July 28, 2009 at 3:27pm

Hi Katherine! I have used Prezi myself to give a presentation back in April and it was great. Just a couple of things - having looked at it just on a laptop, even on this screen some of your images are very pixellated - I think you need some higher resolution ones in some instances (the Wizard of Oz ones in particular), especially if it will be shown on a large screen. Also, I think you need a lot more images. The beauty of Prezi is that it encourages us to do away with the bullet points of PowerPoint. I would add more and take out some of the text - you can say these things and a good image will re-inforce your message.

This is the one I made, together with the PowerPoint version! The Prezi is not perfect by any means (it "flashes" - something which they have improved now, I hope).

http://librain.edublogs.org/presentations/

Comment by Katharine C. Adams on July 28, 2009 at 4:03pm

Thanks, Anne! I appreciate your quick input! I'll definitely make some changes. Yours is wonderful. Very informative. I especially loved the ending!
Kathy

Comment by Anne Robinson on July 28, 2009 at 4:07pm

Some of the flashing was caused by the fact that I zoomed out so much at the end - but I really wanted to keep that as it was such an important part of the message! Good luck with yours!

Comment by Rachel Brockman on July 29, 2009 at 8:53pm

Anne and Katharine -
Have never played with Prezi before. Just took a look at it - WOW! What a great presenting tool! I am going to have to experiment a little... So much more interesting than standard PowerPoint!

Comment by Rachel Brockman on July 29, 2009 at 9:04pm

Anne - went to your school website - curious about the size of your school. You have a very generous circulation policy - is 15 books/student for all students, or certain grades? How do you have the manpower to reshelve that kind of volume? Or have you come up with a more creative way to handle the shelving? (We have 900 K-2nd grade students, have a fairly restrictive circulation policy, but all day flexible circulation.) I LOVE the thought of my students checking out 15 books. Do you guys use Sharepoint for your sites?

Comment by Anne Robinson on July 30, 2009 at 7:56am

Rachel - the 15 books per student was only a special thing for the school holidays only! This summer, as you can see on the site, we are refurbishing the library and so I had to pack up the entire stock. Having read the fabulous Skerricks site, I thought that it would be a good idea to let the keen readers borrow as many books as they wanted. That way the books are being read and I didn't have quite so many to pack into boxes! When the new library is open again, I will probably go to 6 books per student. We have 350 students and I work on my own.

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