Not a character in a Seuss book, but my entry about photos and images on the web. I explored Flikr again and added one of my images to this blog (see below). However, I am a flikr veteran. We decided to use it last year to share PSLA Conference photos, and you see them on my photostream because I am conference photographer along with my friend Christine, a post that I have to give up after the 2009 conference, so if anyone wants a PSLA job....let me know! I learned with those photos that the batch edit button comes in really handy to add tags to LOTS of photos quickly. I have since learned that I love Google's Picasa program because you can EASILY do just about anything with your photos including sending them to be printed or blogging them.
Photo tools online just keep growing and improving and these are just two examples. My mother found ShutterFly this summer and she now is addicted because she figured out how to scan her old family photos (these were OLD, we are talking pictures from the last 3,4,5 and 6 generations...since the first photographs probably....maybe I exagerated the generations.....) and then she made this great bookstore quality book for her and her twin sister of all the photos, with stories and labels on each photograph. I saw it the other day and it is a wonderful book! I am now hoping she will get to work on photos from my and my sibling's childhoods and make us books! I was just exploring Flickr and they too have a similar program called Blurb, but the best tool for the book creation category has to be iPhoto from Apple. I also saw one from Hallmark on someone's coffee table but can't find anything about that on the web, so who knows how they did that.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
JP
This is my bear JP. He travels all over the world and then I use the pictures and information he collects to create a first grade research unit that is also followed by the entire school on a bulletin board. He is hugely popular and the research unit is a big hit too. Here he is on his latest adventure. Can you figure out where he is? I will give you a hint: He is riding a train to find gold in the 49th state.
Thing 1 and 2
Does the title of this post remind anyone else of Dr. Seuss's Thing 1 and Thing 2? That is immediately what I thought of when I wrote it and it reminds me that I just recommended this as a great literary and simple costume for new librarians at Halloween. It also reminds me that I need to dig out my trusty and dusty Happy HalloREADING shirt for next week!
I also want to admit right up front that I do not 'get' blogs. I do not like writting about my thoughts and opinions and having written evidence of these to begin with, but to write them AND post them on the internet just seems crazy to me. I like the format of blogs and know that they have USES. I like that I can use it to post jobs for new librarians and it lists them with the newest ones first. I like how the Carnegie Public Library uses theirs to reach teens, and I like how some people use it as sort of a newsletter for their library or business. I have read Gail Fireman's great article about blogging and have visited many blogs. However, I just do not understand why individuals would post their own lives on blogs and open themselves up to criticism. This is actually my second blog, my first was an assignment for a graduate class and in the end I was posting things like "This is my fourth post. I hope you like it." It seemed somewhat pointless an exercise to me. I invite you to change my mind, but I am also puzzled as to why anyone would want to read someone else's blog! Don't you have anything better to do?
Oh yeah, the homework: Which of the 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners did I think was hardest and easiest and why? I think that I am best at beginning with the end in mind and using technology to my advantage, maybe because I am very young and have grown up with these pieces of technology as everyday tools and because I have goals and want to work towards them. I think that for me, playing is the hardest. I know this sounds odd, but I am so focused on my goals, so focused, and such a loner that 'playing' comes harder to me than to others.
I also want to admit right up front that I do not 'get' blogs. I do not like writting about my thoughts and opinions and having written evidence of these to begin with, but to write them AND post them on the internet just seems crazy to me. I like the format of blogs and know that they have USES. I like that I can use it to post jobs for new librarians and it lists them with the newest ones first. I like how the Carnegie Public Library uses theirs to reach teens, and I like how some people use it as sort of a newsletter for their library or business. I have read Gail Fireman's great article about blogging and have visited many blogs. However, I just do not understand why individuals would post their own lives on blogs and open themselves up to criticism. This is actually my second blog, my first was an assignment for a graduate class and in the end I was posting things like "This is my fourth post. I hope you like it." It seemed somewhat pointless an exercise to me. I invite you to change my mind, but I am also puzzled as to why anyone would want to read someone else's blog! Don't you have anything better to do?
Oh yeah, the homework: Which of the 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners did I think was hardest and easiest and why? I think that I am best at beginning with the end in mind and using technology to my advantage, maybe because I am very young and have grown up with these pieces of technology as everyday tools and because I have goals and want to work towards them. I think that for me, playing is the hardest. I know this sounds odd, but I am so focused on my goals, so focused, and such a loner that 'playing' comes harder to me than to others.
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