Six impossible things before breakfast...

[guybrarian]

How about this twist on Joyce's 23 things. Perhaps doing these before breakfast is a bit much, but what about 6 web 2.0/lib 2.0 things you do for your students or teachers before 9am? Love to hear this one...

[guybrarian]

OK- I'll be first: Used Google Calendars to update library reservations, email to confirm collaboration, listened to podcast coming to work, posted to forums on TLning, used del.icio.us for stored sites for teachers, used senduit.com to upload files for student presentations....all before 7 am
How about that for a start?

[Rosanne Zajko]

Geez....what time did you get up??? ;-) Were you caffeinated?

[guybrarian]

OK, I confess- I had to drop someone off at the airport this am. :)
I'm such a GEEK. We have students show up a little before 6:45. Pretty early!

[Lesley Edwards]

I used First Class calendar and email to add bookings for staff using the iBook carts and fwd. sites of interest to staff, I thought about updating my blog but was lacking inspiration it being Friday and all. Bookmarked several sites to Backflip for use in an upcoming workshop. Haven't explored del.icio.us (and not really sure what it does. Do you know some good examples online?) and have no idea what senduit.com is.

[Rosanne Zajko]

That makes two of us. What is senduit? Geeks are good...they bring us non-geeks up to speed.

[guybrarian]

Sure..Here are some answers/ideas! Del.icio.us is social bookmarking software that I use to store my bookmarks. It creates a way to organize them for you and the bonus for me is that I can get to them on any machine I'm working on. So if I need my bookmarks for the math class... (or anything) I can pull them up in the math classroom, or any other room. There are other great things too. Lesley- you can also view other people's bookmarks. My favorite is the Ed Tech Talk folks list of tech tools for teachers.

SENDUIT.com is a free online storage site. I've been using it to transfer student's large multimedia projects to the teacher's computer for presentations. It is faster than having them log into their accounts, and a bit more reliable than a flash drive. Students upload projects, senduit gives them a web address and we download them on any computer with Internet. Cool!

[Durff]

Do you listen to the Edtechtalk webcasts?

[guybrarian]

Yes of course- my favorite is the Sunday night Ed Tech Talks- the round table of ideas for educators. I always get great ideas from that one!

[Durff]

WOW2.0 is on 9pm Tuesday! Also on Edtechtalk http://www.edtechtalk.com/chat

[Durff]

My father always said 5 impossible things before breakfast. Six things Web 2.0 by 9am?
1. Check RSS for things to grade or pass on to other educators.
2. Follow RSS to Ning posts to encourage someone or suggest something.
3. Check the email for student crises...
4. Check for Yackpack messages and/or send them to our school's pack.
5. Check the homework on the blogs & reminds students thereof.
6. Check Google docs lesson plans before class.
And that's only before 9am....

[Carolyn Foote]

Hm, someone else using Yackpack! I know this is off topic, but another thread on yackpack would be good.

Let's see, by 8 a.m. today, I had read my bloglines, popped into Ning, added a link to my blog, sent an article to some teachers, and worked on my wiki training site.

[guybrarian]

Nicely done folks- what a incredible group I'm with! :)