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School Project

Oct 26th, 2007 by

 This is one of the projects I’m developing with a classroom teacher.

Parenting Project

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A book list

Apr 16th, 2007 by

I found this on someone else’s blog. Play along if you wish.
Look at the list of books below: * Bold the ones you’ve read * Italicize the ones you want to read (and/or put in a different color) * Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. If you are reading this (and haven’t participated yet), tag, you’re it!

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) (I’ve tried many times to read this, I just can’t seem to get into it)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible (not the whole thing but parts)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

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My internet wanderings for the week…

Apr 9th, 2007 by

Here’s what I’ve been up to recently. I’ve joined a couple of social networks: Library 2.0 and LIS Students. Both of these are on a social networking site called Ning.

I also found out about a website from PVLD director’s blog (this is a great blog by the way). Booktribes allows you to search for books you’ve read, join groups that are reading the book you are and see other people who have read the books you’ve read.

For my Computer Applications in School Library Media class I’ve created a myspace page for my class to use as an example for my technology lesson. I don’t know how useful it will be to all of us once we are out in the schools (since most school filters block myspace and other social networking sites), but in my opinion the most important piece to the presentation is the idea that you meet your patrons where they are. If you know that your students visit myspace all the time why not create a presence there? Perhaps you’ll have more students visiting the library because you’ve just made it accessible to them in a way they didn’t know was possible. You might even introduce them to a few authors. It could even draw in those reluctant readers!!! Imagine that ;)

Anyway, those are just a few of the things I’ve done/explored recently. If you happen to explore anyone of these things please let me know what your thoughts are :)

My profiles:
LIS Students page

Library 2.0 page

Booktribes page

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Library 2.0

Mar 29th, 2007 by

This is an awesome Youtube video that our classmate shared with us last week. It’s all about Web 2.0 and how it’s changing the way we think and do things in the world. Even what I’m doing right now is Web 2.0.

I guess the bigger question is what does this mean for libraries? How will libraries respond to the Web 2.0 world we live in? How have they responded?

As far as the public library relm goes, this is one library to watch. They are on the forefront of embracing technology and finding ways to use it in the library. They are redefining library service in the 21st century. If only we could all do the same…

I believe their newest technology includes text messaging reference questions. Their director posted information about this in her blog. Notice the avatar that speaks to you in the right hand corner. Yes, they have created a virtual librarian. The best part is she’ll follow your mouse with her eyes ;)

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For Librarians who want to laugh…

Mar 14th, 2007 by

Check out this video on Youtube

It depicts a typical day in a public library in Indiana. After watching this video I feel it is not that much different from a typical day in my library, except that my library is much much smaller!

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First post

Mar 14th, 2007 by

This is my first post on a blog, ever. So far I have to say that I’m really enjoying edublogs. It seems very easy to use. I’ve created my own blog on here to test it and see how it works. My goal is to create a blog on edublogs for an English teacher so that he can use it when his students comment on the books they’re reading together. In the future I plan to post something a bit more exciting, but for now this will do ;)

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