In Conclusion

Since I started this blog I have explored many web technologies. It is important, both as a teacher and a librarian, for me to stay up to date on these technologies. I want to be one of those teachers that can utilize internet tools instead of one of those teachers that can't even turn on a computer.  I have really learned a lot from the tools that I have used. I also have come up with some good ideas about how to integrate these technologies. For example, I want have my students make tag clouds (you can make these at wordle) for their favorite books and hang them In my library. I also want to use skype to have my class talk to authors that are in other states. There are so many resources on the internet and it doesn't take that much time to become familiar enough with them to use them in a class room. I highly recommend that you too take the time to experiment with some of the resources that I have listed in this blog so you can too become Web 2.0 literate.

Podcast

I listened to a podcast by The Nerdy Librarians. The Nerdy Librarians is a husband and wife team that have created this series. I was listening to episode 5 and it was about social media. Despite being recorded in August 2012 the episode had a lot of good ideas on implementing social media in the library. They especially condoned the use of twitter. Despite my earlier ranting on my dislike of twitter I recently discovered a new use for it. One of my coworkers follows news agencies like New York Times and Salt Lake Tribune on twitter. When she wakes up in the morning the first thing she does is flip through twitter and she becomes informed on the currents events. I think that this is a pretty good idea.

Here is a word cloud for Fablehaven by Brandon Mull. I love these books!

Online Digital Library

Brewster Kahle believes that, "We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children.if we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve." He believes that this can be achieved through the, "Universal access of all knowledge." To achieve this he is leading the movement to put all published works into on online library that is available to everybody. According to him putting all the works in the library of congress online would only cost about as much as a house. He also had this amazing idea of book mobiles where you can go choose one of the online books and print it. This cost about $3 per book or 1 cent a page. The main problem with this is copyright. This is where amazon comes in. If the library has all the out of print and out of copy right books then amazon has the books still in copyright at least all the books are still online.