Thing 20 Book 2.0

I really like BooksVideo.tv.  I watched the demo on the book about Columbine HS.  That would be a neat thing to do with high school kids regarding the books they like.  Sort of like a movie trailer.  We talked about that,  but haven't done it yet.  Maybe that is a project we can get finished  before the end of the year and use BooksVideo.tv to show the kids the format.

Thing 19 Flixter &

I had never heard of Flixter or Film Crave.  They were both interesting.  I don't watch movies very often so I never had searched for a site like those.  I'll remember those if I am ever in the mood to watch a movie.  I liked the Top Movies of the Year option.

Thing 19 Classroom 2.0

The main classroom 2.0 ning is really good for my other job of instructional technology in the schools.  There is a lot of useful educational information on that site.

Thing 19 Nings Other Social Net

I am a member of numerous Nings and have created many.  Right now we have three regional Nings for the Florida Association for Media in Education that I have set up after FAME regional meetings around the state. We use a Ning internally for our school library media specialists and aides and it is a great way to share information.  I really like the Ning interface even more than Facebook.

Thing 18 Facebook

I love Facebook and have been a member since the fall.  Everyone in our office joined for professional and personal reasons.  I enjoy keeping up with my children that don't live at home. I also have enjoyed seeing old friends show up on Facebook every week.  I didn't realize there was an ALA group.  I joined the Library 2.0 group and did enjoy a video on their site called Reflections of Digital Scholarship and someone from West Florida created the video.  I don't like the recent changes in the interface of Facebook but from what I am reading it will probably change due to complaints.

Thing 17 Podcasts

I love podcasts and listen to them frequently. I subscribe to many that relate to personal interests but don't listen to too many professional library podcasts. I like the flexibility of podcasts, and I listen while I do my daily walk on my iPod. I use iTunes and iTunes University if I want to find more professional topics related to work. I have been involved with making podcasts on Audacity but never posted one. I might give it a try. I did listen to the Library Channel News for March 2009 and had never listened to it before.  It was very easy to search on "podcast.com" and I also had never used 'podcastalley.com.  I had never used those tools to find podcasts.  I did also listen to a David Warlick Connect Learning podcast from a conference in San Francisco.  I found his podcast using the Educational Podcast Directory.  I love iTunes the best just because the Apple Macintosh interface is so easy and intuitive.  You do get hits in a different way on the others that I liked also.

Thing 16: YouTube

Thing 15: Rollyo

I am skipping over this one tonight too, I want to do YouTube. See you soon.

Thing 14: Online Productivity Tools

I really am skipping over this Thing tonight. I want to do YouTube. I will return.

Thing 13 Library Thing

I really enjoyed exploring Library Thing. It was so easy to create my own library and interesting to see how many folks read some of the same books as me. My library is full of unusual titles related to Louisiana so I didn't expect to see so many people that had posted the same titles. Some of the titles are very old also from the early 20th century.

Thing 12 Wikis

I am not a fan of Wikis. I attended a summer training a few summers ago where our group project was completed on a Wiki. One person monopolized the entire project and would change what we posted on the wiki. I do like Wikipedia for some things I am looking for. Sometimes it is actually faster to find very current info on Wikipedia however, the problem of course is the info hasn't been peer reviewed. I have used PB Wiki in the past.

Thing 11 Social Media Mixx

I really like Mixx. I had never heard about it. I like the fact that what makes it to the top are what the users like instead of what a "faceless" editor as they said decides. I was especially interested in Mixx because one of the posted articles was "100 Terrific Web Tools for Tightwads". I am quite skilled at being a tightwad but I had never heard of most of the web tools listed on that page.