Book shelf

 Bookslikes.com I like booklikes but it was not the easiest to use. It has all the books that anyone would every read and share with anyone.
 
 What I like about shelfari is the timeline, you can rate the books you read! I also like that it has the book covers.  Shelfari was easy to use.

Goodreads has some good points, like favorite books and your friends that have a goodread account also.  Like the bookcovers, was not easy to use!

LibraryThing has great timeline and shows the bookcovers just like all the rest! Good things about this site it shows how many books in collection, how many authors and the series, this helps a librarians with titles of the books.

Biblionasium is easy to use and kid friendly!  The reports on the students login in the the reading shelfs.  I like it shows the bookcovers of all the books.  Suggested reading is great for the students to look at different kinds of books that they might like to read.  Letters to parents will help them understand how the books shelf works.  Biblionasium is the bookshelf I will suggest to my teachers and students every time! It's easy and kid friendly.

Podcasting

The three accounts I looked at for my podcast were Soundcloud, Audiboom and Podpmatic, they were all very easy to use and to make a podcast. I created free and basic accounts for each one of them. I decided to make my podcasting for this assignment with SoundCloud because to me it was more kid-friendly then the other two.  I think the children would love to make a book review using this program! I will recommend SoundCloud to all my teachers! I had a problem downloading Lame, so I would not recommend this podcasting website.  My students used podcasting to interview each other. I plan on using SoundCloud when my students do booktalk.  

Videos and QR Codes in the Library

The Videos I that will be helpful in the library are
NHS Library Website
Finding and Using Wikimedia Commons Images
Snapshot of the Panthers Library
Overdue Games

The Videos I think the children would like are
The Norman High Library
Greek Mythology Project Period 3 Corbett
Back to School Night
Bring Them Back Overdue Library Book Parody

It's Sammy the Shark's first day at school and he's terribly excited about it. But, oh dear, when Sammy gets excited he just can't help biting things. Can he get through the day without causing too much trouble and without eating the teacher?

Book Trailer
Below is a QR to a book tailor  I made on Animoto!  It was very easy to make the free version, you can only fave a 30 second video which is really not enough time.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 1-Sammy the shark is so excited about starting school that he can't control his jaws. He bites through the kitchen table, then eats a classmate (but spits her out). He eats his painting, chews up the classroom, and then he almost eats the teacher. The lively illustrations show colorful, cartoon fish swimming through a classroom and smiling Sammy eagerly crunching everything in sight. Children will enjoy this as a read-aloud, chiming in on the chorus, "Oh, Sammy! Don't eat-." An additional but humorous, back-to-school story.
Be Astengo, Alachua County Library, Gainesville, FL
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

I have used QR Code in the library for a scavenger hunt to help students understand the Dewey decimal system.  
*QR codes told student to look under the authors name for all sorts of books!
*QR Code Scavenger Hunt Library Edition for Book Week
A fun activity to do for Book Week – A scavenger hunt in the library using QR codes! This activity is designed to integrate technology and help students become more familiar with the areas of the library such as Fiction, Non Fiction, Senior Picture Fiction and Easy Fiction.
*QR Code Listening Center
*Stories about School Read Aloud QR Codes
*Texas Bluebonnet Nominee Book Trailer QR Code Posters
*Find the Gingerbread Man QR codes in the library
The Students love doing all these activities!

I am using bloglovin' and tumblr!   This blog and blog reader is easy to learn and had a lot of information! Tumblr
I am following schoollibraryjournal, librarianproblems, elmirahslibrary, childitfan, and neverwithoutabook!  They all had great book reviews and had library ideas that would help every librarian.  The one I really liked was neverwithoutabook, it had books for all ages.

Infographics assignment

I used piktochart to make this slide show about Teens, Technology & Friendship from the website http://www.pewinternet.org/.  This is my infographics assignment.

http://www.pewinternet.org/   

Teens, Technology & Friendship

Teens, Technology & Friendship

     Interesting that the new contours of friendship in the digital age.  Teens friendship can start digitally, 57% teens have met a new friend online though social media or online gaming.  Boys are more likely to make friends on line than girls.  Facebook and Instagram and than networked video games are the sites most teenagers find friends.  More than 50% of teens text their friends on a daily basis.  83% of the teens say they hang out with their friends mostly at school.  Please check out this site it was informative and interesting!

Lenhart, A., Smith, A., Anderson, M., Duggan. M., Perrin, A., (2015) http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/08/Teens-and-Friendships-FINAL2.pdf

76 pgs out 150

Follow me Tweet

This blog discusses some great tweets:

The one tweet that Kathy Schrock @kathyschrock twitted Aug 5, I enjoyed was the one Android apps for the applying level of Bloom’s.  This blog is very friendly and will help anyone remember how to apply the Bloom’s to any lesson.

Android apps for the applying level of Bloom's http://t.co/ChYyxV0dD7

— Kathy Schrock (@kathyschrock) August 5, 2015

              Linda W. Braun @lbraun2000 tweeted on Sept 1, 2015 I think everyone needs to read!  “We can no longer hld back students bc of r fears of what cld go wrong, but lead by focusing on what could go right.” Georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/.. In this blog it states about the principal of change and that change is the one guarantee that changes happens.  I love the quote a student said that is relevant to today’s way of life.

           “Social media is like water because it is everywhere in our life.  We can ignore it and watch kids drown, or we can teach kids how to swim.

"We can no longer hld back students bc of r fears of what cld go wrong, but lead by focusing on what could go right." http://t.co/oPFZWclo5j

— Linda W Braun (@lbraun2000) September 1, 2015

 Which way are you going to go?”

                Periscope caught my attention from Tony Vincent tweet @tonyvincent on Sept. 1, 2015.  I am going to share this with my teachers.  Periscope videos are live but can be replayed on the web.  There was many times I would have a student absent that I would have to write out a lesson for them when they could just watch Periscope and understand what I was teaching for the day.

"Periscope for Teachers: A Complete Overview” from @kontentsolution: http://t.co/Q6nkkTFw8O #periscopeEDU #periscopeteachers

— Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) September 1, 2015

This was interesting on taking notes: Is the pen still mightier than the keyboard? This tweet was on Buffy Hamilton’s tweet @buffyjhamilton. I agree that “Longhand note-taking results in a better conceptual understanding of the material and is easier to recall later. I can take note all day long and recall that was said at a conference but give me a handout without me taken notes and I cannot remember anything.

Taking Notes: Is The Pen Still Mightier Than the Keyboard? | @scoopit via @buffyjhamilton http://t.co/vIlv5ie36D

— Sara Kelly Johns (@skjohns) August 20, 2015

The daring librarian @GwynethJones the tweet says it all!  Technology is the future!

@gwynethjones thought you might be interested http://t.co/dzmb5LfOhI allows teachers or librarians to search internet by reading level

— Vastly (@learningunbound) August 23, 2015

Jim Lerman @jimlerman tweeted on August 31 about free technology for teachers: Good online Bookmarking Tools for Students by Richard Byrne sco.it/8HsUPB.  I always like free stuff.  The article was great and was about good online bookmarking tools for students.  

Free Technology for Teachers: Good Online Bookmarking Tools for Students ^ by Richard Byrne http://t.co/OqMTbrke0R pic.twitter.com/XNX9ZtRltl

— Jim Lerman (@jimlerman) August 31, 2015