Week 5 Thing 12
I visit Rollyo. Maybe I don't get it; I did a search for "teen books" and it let me search "the web" : "Custom Web Results: Matched about 344,000,000". Isn't that like a google search results number?! I tried Google for a comparison and from Google got : "Results ... about 46,900,000 for teen books". Just interesting, that's all.
I guess from the results, I chose the ones I particularly like for my own Rollyo search engine? Am I getting this right? If I did that, could I then search those for an author and get links to reviews on any of the sites on my listing? I may have to experiment another time with that idea.

Week 5 Thing 11
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ccte1
I added some books I read to my list on Library Thing. I like that I can then see what other readers wrote in their reviews (even if I don't agree with a few).

Week 5 Thing 10

Image Generators are fun! I played w/lego person, alphabet soup, calendar (a sand message), a banner, band name generator, a frightening avatar that generated speech, and this really cool star that I will post here.

Week 4 Thing 9: RSS Feeds
I added NPR RSS (top news stories) to my bloglines, too. I explored Merlin, etc.
Old habits are hard to break, though. I tend to want to just google a topic I'm interested in and not all the websites have RSS feeds when I get a good site that way. If there was a good library display ideas blog/site, or a teen book talking/review blog/site that had RSS feeds, I'd be interested in adding them. I'm open to suggestions, so I'll be interested in what everyone decides to add to their bloglines list.

Week 4 Thing 8: Exploring RSS Feeds... I successfully set up an account and added my first RSS Feed! (a site I checked on every day for updates)
I explored other possible websites, but hesitated to add RSS Feeds to sites I may not have time to read everyday.
It's nice to understand how it works; I didn't really know what to do with that RSS button before. Now I understand that I was missing a step (Bloglines registration). I get it now!

Week 3 : Playing is so much fun... I took my camera out and snapped a photo of a weed, then uploaded it using the Warholizer flickr toy.

Ha!Ha! Look at that weed multiply!

Week 3: Flickr Toys, continued (Captioner). I took this photo I had on hand and used Captioner to turn it into this. Not sure how I'd use this...maybe with Library orientation? Again, it looks like the saved image would print on 8 1/2 X 11 paper.

Week 3 :

Book Trading Cards! I gave it a try using the trading cards toy in flickr and a photo I took of the books. Has possibilities for the classroom...

Still wondering about print size though. It looks like if I saved the design to my desktop, that it would print 8.5X11. Actually, that might be nice too...for bulletin boards, you know. How do I get a set of trading card sized cards that the kids can pass out to classmates though. Anyone know ?

Week 3 Misc. : I was curious about the "Followers" feature on our new blogs, and so I have tried adding myself to the blog of "Forever Learning" . It took me awhile then to figure out how to get to the info. from Forever Learning's blog that then appeared on my blog's dashboard. Apparently I get to my blog's dashboard through the "new post" tab? Is there a more direct route (anyone know? )
Never mind, I had to remove myself from "Followers" on that blog till I get more instruction from Jen! Might try again another day!

Week 3 Still Playing with Flickr Technology

I'm still exploring Flickr with a mind to using it w/student projects. I finally discovered the Creative Commons section that had less restrictions on the copyright/use. Then, in that section, I searched for "WW II" to see what might be of use. I found this photo of "realistic immersion attraction", apparently a display at Fantasy of Flight in Florida.

I then used the magazine cover flikr toy to design a magazine cover for a project that student "John Doe" could create for U.S. History. I don't have a printer here, so I'm not sure if I can actually print the cover or what size it would be (The cover saved in something called "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer"). If anyone has tried printing a mag. cover project, let me know how it turned out!

I like spring flowers, too. This photo from Flickr is okay to use on my blog as long as I note the photographer, Marcel Germain and his flikr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcelgermain/ . So there it is.