Item 22

As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I created links in my school's OPAC to all of Shakespeare's plays. The copies on our shelves were old and yucky looking. I also wanted to see if our students would use them at home. I used the MIT site, The Tech, since I felt the pages were easiest to read. I am a big fan of books on tape, but I don't know if I could sit in one position anchored to my desk and read a book on line. Since I don't have a laptop, I couldn't take it outside with me or to my favorite reading place, my bathtub. I had an opportunity to try a handheld reader which was OK but I would hesitate brining it in the tub with me. I liked how one could choose font size making it ideal for students with impaired vision. I'll have to try them again.

Item 21

My daughter attends one of the New Technology high schools and I could definitely see daily podcasts at a site like that. They could produce a tech tip of the day that would be fast to produce. I wonder if public libraries could post podcasts with excerpts from audiobooks to promote new arrivals.

Week 9, Item 20

Time is ticking down to the release of the Harry Potter movie and book, so I posted a trailer of the movie. Looking around YouTube showed me there are many talented people out there. Besides the trailers for the movies, there were some very funny puppet videos people made to satirise the series. Since these videos are such hogs with band width, our students are discouraged from watching any videos that aren't school related. They are allowed to access videos that are curriculum related only. The video called "influential/favorite books" had a very eclectic collection of books. It was fun watching while wondering how these books have influenced the video's creator.

harry potter and the order of the phoenix trailer HQ

Week 8, Item 19

Library Thing is lots of fun and I can see this coming up on every school library's website! I have added a widget to my blog page with no difficulty. Our school uses School Center to manage web pages. I hope that it accepts Library Thing.

Wk 8, T18

OOOOH! Finally a solution to the problem that has been plaguing our students since the advent of computers. Hardly a day goes by that a student needs to print something they have saved on a disk or emailed to themselves and they can't open it at school. Yes, I have fliers and posters about Rich Text Format but here is another tool that we can introduce to them! And to be able to create spread sheets and presentations, too! Sweet!!!
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Thing #17

The Learning 2.0 Sandbox wiki will be a fabulous site when more ideas are posted. I added Idea #5 to the blog page about students starting their own blogs to post comments about books they have read. I think it would be so cool if they started a blog when they are freshmen and add throughout high school. It would take an amazing committment from the teachers (across the curriculum) to support this, though, for four years!