If it's good enough for Obama, it's good enough for me. Yes, I can, be a better blogger!!Hopefully more of us have made that our New Year's Resolutions. "Way to go." Ann Marie, Tanya, Sara and Lynette, for keeping the momentum going. I must say, even though I haven't blogged about it I have gotten into using Google Docs for work here at 807 and also helping teachers set it up at other sites to share work.
Jean and I have also set up an Information Media and Technology Wiki that we have linked from our media page. Karen will be able to access it as a district media specialist. We are creating links to websites, uploading podcasts and uploading files necessary for media specialists.
Jean and I continue to plot how to put media specialists in the spotlight.. Here we are at the Minneapolis School Fair, as the Research Queen and Reading King, overseeing our "realm" of information media and technology. Jean is off to Midwinter ALA to learn how we can better market our media centers and media specialists.
It is also my intent for the remainder of the grant, to not only continue to use the Web 2.0 tools but also to visit the Tuesday participant blogs on a weekly basis. Jean is going to visit the Wednesday participant blogs. In this way we can do a better job of highlighting this project across the district.
I have been successful in reorganizing our access to the ELM resources so that our students do not have to use the public library cards for access to EBSCO databases within the Minneapolis firewall. Thanks to Jennifer Hootman for her help on this. I have gotten positive feedback from media specialists that students like it and find it easier to use.
Finally, I am starting to like the "taste" of Delicious. We are introducing it to our elementary media specialists at our January Curriculum Connect. We hope to harness it as a way to share great websites for media curriculum.
It is my hope that by the end of the year that I will be as adept at podcasting as these students from Pillsbury Elementary seem to be. I love the Snowball microphone!!
