Week 6, #14 Technorati, tags

technorati is the "leading search tool and authority for blogs."

discovery exercise:
1. Technorati Keyword Search for "School Library Learning 2.0
a. Blog posts:
wow, 1,322 results for "School library 2.0" All different languages, blogs, photos and videos.
Results: 52 blogs about School Library 2.0
26 results for "school library 2.0"
b. tags
Results: When I looked at "school Library 2.0" and followed one of the posts from "Library2Play" I noticed that there are 19 posts tagged to Library2Play
c. Blog Dirctory
Results:
I was unable to type in "School library 2.0" In the dirctory it was labeled "web 2.0"

LibraryThing
http://ww.librarything.com/
I wonder why there is only two w's in the url?
I joined Librarything

2. explore popular blog, searches and tags: interesting or surprising results...


3. create blog post about discoveries

4. Thoughts about tagging : a simple category name
There are two ways: 1) blog supports categories and RSS/Atom feeds, use category system.
2) tag post by using special httm on bottom of post.
[tagname]
two word tags should be joined with a +
Don't have to link to Technorati
a. advantages: "A simple way to categorize books according to how you think of them, not how some library official does." LibraryThing
Example would be Patricia Cornwell: I would tag her books forensic science, mystery, murder, favorites.
b. disadvantages: When there are too many books, LC is preferable.
Side note: works referes to all forms of the same piece. Example: Alice in Wonderland- hardback, softback, movie, video, edition, etc. They are all considered one work.

Week 5, exercise #12

Roll your own search tools with Rollyo

1. I took a look at Public Domain e-books Search
http://rollyo.com/
jane eyre + Public Domain eBooks: Rollyo
I discovered that I can download free audio books of Jane Eyre, along with ebooks and notes.
2. http://rollyo.com/byblos/rare_book_library_search/
rare book search
3. http://rollyo.com/ericrolph/free_photos/
free photos
4. http://rollyo.com/kizuki-sama/quick_quotes_search
quick quotes: If wishes were horses... A list of sites opened that not only completed the the quote, but also expaned and added other words and thoughts. Interesting. German Proverbs-
WorldofQuotes.com
5. http://rollyo.com/explore.html
Here the searchrolls are divided into four sections:
Searchrolls of Note: metal music; textpattern; boutique search; guitar tablature...
Most Popular: the big anser deck; the searchsearch; string theory; mac search...
Recently added: casodex_bicalutamide; buy flagyl; flagyl online; flagyl medicine...
High Rollers: CJR Daily; FRONTLINE/World; resourceshelf; the Gothamist...

Week 6, exercise #13

1. I was unable to view the del.icio.us tutorial. The link was not working, and when I went to del.icio.us I could not find the tutorial.
At AASL last October, I attended a session presented by Dan Fuller from SLIS on del.icio.us
I set up my own account at that time. I have 4 favorits. I find the site a wee bit confusing, because many of the posts are written in another language.

Week 6, exercise #13

Discovery Exercise:

1. View the 12 minute Del.icio.us tutorial.

I was unable to view the 112 minute tutorial. It would not play

When I was at AASL, I took a workshop on Del.icio.us from Daniel Fuller dfuller@slis.sjsu.edu

We were given a bookmark with all kinds of cool stuff on it from Del.icio.us

I set up my own account at that time and added an RSS feed.

2. I explored thumbalizr - a website thumbnail creater. I made a thumbnail of my library portal just to see what would happen. Some of the things I have on my original webpage did not show up on the thumbnail, however, it is still pretty cool.
I am trying to figuer out how to upload the thumbnail to here. It says it is a jpg. This can't upload. "Unsupported image type speified thumbs_jpg.mht" must be JPEG or GIF.

Week 5, exercise #11

discovery exercises:

4. Join a Ning network.
I joined Joyce Valenza's TeacherLibrarianNetwork.
http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com

I joined three different groups:
a. AASL 2.0 Task Force
b. Elementary School Librarians
c. More things: Applying 2.0 tools

I have made posts to the taskforce, sharing Winter 2.0 Fun
5. Travel IQ
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1?f235=938e
WOW! At least I got the right country. I was off on the cities.
What a great teaching tool. I am going to add a link on my website.

Week 5, exercise #11

What is a Wiki? A wiki is a way to collaborate with a group.

I set my Wiki up at http://librarykaren.pbwiki.com/

I am using pbwiki: peanutbutter wiki. I first learned about this at the national AASL conference in Reno this past October.
I have had a few technical problems.

When I set-up my wiki and invited friends, I was confused when they they received my own email. Then I figured it out. If I wanted them to participate, I was to send them the URL and the password. It seems a little confusing. Anyway, I finally got it to work.

Week 5, exercise #10

I tried another kind of picture. This is all just practice, but lots of fun too.