After a very busy few weeks, I'm back!
After looking through Edublog's award winners and then looking around in Google Blog Search, I am in awe (again). There is so much "out there." One of the nominees for Best Educational Wiki 2007 was "Salute to Seuss," and I found so many great resources there. One of the first grade teachers at my school celebrates Dr. Seuss' birthday every year, and I cannot wait to show her this wiki.
Through Google Blog Search, I found the blog for School Library Media Activities Monthly, with a discussion of Exploring Elementary 2.0, a modification of Web 2.0 that has been adapted for elementary school staff members. I can't wait until I have time this summer to explore this exciting self-paced exploration, as she calls it!!!
I found another blog entitled "It's all about passion...Blogs, wikis, and other web 2.0 passion quests," which I found very interesting. Of course I loved the link: Teacher-Librarians are Learning Gems! -- as they say, what's not to love?
BUT, the most exciting new thing I discovered as a result of #9 is LibraryThing at www.librarything.com I just finished the tour of this website, and I want to encourage all you readers and book lovers to do the same. This site offers cataloging information for librarians, but the thing I love most is where it says that "LibraryThing cares about books, not about SELLING books." I can't wait to spend time here, too!
Finally, I want to say that I am having a great time checking every site I go to nowadays to see if I can set up RSS feed. If anything, my biggest problem is finding too many I'd like to add to my bloglines.
I'm signing out to move into Week 5, and more and more I agree: "It's all about passion," and I'm becoming quite passionate about all the information available through all these new technologies. Without Web 2.0, I would be missing soooooo much!
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