11.5 Things: Thing #1

I loved this video. It was exactly and completely what the Library 2.0 Librarian should be doing for students. In addition, she should be providing the teacher with the tools to positively affect students in the way depicted in the video.

If only schools were able to have this type of "utopian" learning environment in every class...

Loved this video! I want to show it to my teachers at the start of the year!

Attention 23 Things Players...

I am a fellow colleague who works in Spring Branch ISD. If you see a few comments on your 23 things blogs, don't be concerned... it's just me reading and learning along with you, and enjoying your blog comments.

I will shortly be starting the 2nd version of 23 things called 11 1/2 things... but for now, I'm just a commenter in your learning process.

:)

Cafe Read 2009

A 3rd grade teacher at Valley Oaks decided to create a Reading Restaurant of sorts to celebrate Read Across America Day... thus, Cafe Read was born. Last year, she did it in her classroom and we all visited. This year, we decided to host it in the Library and collaborate on it together. It was fabulous!

More Video - 8/20 LIS Meeting

I struggle with patience when TeacherTube is involved. It is soooooo slow within the district. When I finally get on, there's great stuff, but it's frustrational b/c of the time it takes to load, search, and play videos.

I love YouTube. I truly wish it were unblocked, but I do understand why it is unavailable. There's lots of crazy stuff on YouTube, much of it inappropriate for young eyes and ears. I am less familiar w/ Zamzar b/c I've never actually converted a YouTube to a Zamzar video, but I just played with it and converted a video which I will get later via email. :)

I have also made a MovieMaker file.

Here it is! Coolness! :)

Video Manipulation - 8/20 LIS Meeting

In this round, we played in Photo Story, which is a great free program that comes from Microsoft. Although it took a while to upload, here is my video that I created with pictures from my trip to Florida this summer.

I am so glad that it worked!!!

Audio Manipulation - 8/20 LIS Meeting

This was a bit more stressful than Image Manipulation b/c I have less familiarity, in general, with audio files and how to work with them.

I used audacity to record my voice, and then went to Incompetech and captured some royalty-free music. I then merged the 2 files and saved them as an mp3 file. As asked, I tried to upload the file to the Sandbox in our Wiki, but it didn't work. :)

Ah, well... good thing I wasn't in front of an entire class when this happened.

Good information here but not super successful.

Image Manipulation - 8/20 LIS Meeting

What a fabuloso Professional Development day. This rules.

Here is my pic with words from power point.

Here is a different pic (God-daughters and Me) from Big Huge Labs after being manipulated in the Warholizer.