Week 9 Thing 20 You Tube

You Tube offers some very creative video clips but you have to search through a lot of other "stuff" to find the gems. I found it fairly easy to embed a video, you just have to join You Tube and that's free. Once you find a video you want to place on your blog, choose post video and You Tube uploads the video to your blog. If you want to attach any comments, you'll need to type that in the space provided before you upload the video. Teacher Tube, for the purposes of finding something designed for education or by educators, offers a little more. I didn't have to search as long to find inspirational clips. I can see how You Tube will be useful for library web pages or blogs. You just have to spend some time searching to find something that will work. Reading other librarian's blogs or participating in a library social network where others share a good find would definitely be helpful and useful when it comes to You Tube.

Week 6 Thing 15 Library 2.0

I read all of the articles posted and wanting to know more, I read some of the articles that were posted under references on the wikipedia article, "Library 2.0" I realize we are coming to another shift in how we conceptualize teaching, learning, classrooms and libraries. Since I am a new school librarian I haven't been around long enough to experience some of the other shifts in how libraries have been used. But I have experienced changes in technology and though the learning curve has been rough at times I have learned how to use new technology. As a life-long learner, I will continue to adapt and learn to use new technology. After reading the articles it seems pretty clear that the profession will be adapting also to a new focus and a new ways of offering our service to our library patrons. The challenge for me will be to stay up with all the new technology and making sure our patrons know what is available to them (Hey, I can use some of this new technology to keep my teachers and students up-to-date on what's available!)

Library 2.0 to me means extending the library beyond its walls. If you think back to B.G.(before Google) and computers, most people had to visit a library to research answers to their questions. Now with the Internet, search engines, on-line databases, on-line catalogs library patrons can access information from beyond the library walls. As a school librarian, I am shifting my perspective on how to help prepare students that use my library for the future. Whether I teach them skills as a class, one-on-one or direct them to video clips posted on the web to assist them in learning a skill, I need to continually assess and learn as new technology becomes available so I can offer my patrons the best service possible.

I am learning so much during this Library 2.0 course. I see great potential for what I have learned. I found a video on Teacher Tube that I think fits this lesson. I found Teacher Tube after browsing through other members blogs. One blog I learned a lot from is kangaLMT2. She had some favorite blogs that she regularly checked and I found many of them suited my taste too. So as I was searching around Teacher Tube, I found Shift Happens
which I suggest you watch when you have the opportunity because it fits this topic. But I am posting Shake It Up by Tom Woodward because I think it shows where we've been and where we are headed. (I wasn't able to embed the video on the page, so you'll have to use the link. Just when I think I've improved my technology learning curve...)