Some E-reading for school librarians
April 24, 2008
The other day I blogged about some local new blogging voices from South Carolina, my home state. Today I am adding to that some voices that promote information literacy through school library programs using the vehicle of blogs, and the net is a wider global area, way beyond just South Carolina.
Don’t forget that I spotlighted 2 SC LMS blogs of those in the post the other day. Here is a list of my favorite related to my field, school libraries. I will follow up with more SC Librarians who are blogging and adding depth and dimension to my thinking. Note: I know roughly 30 more but want to give them time to develop some meat before spotlighting them.
Testing my “table creating skills” too in the body of a blog. Hey, if you have some recommendations for me to read, please comment and add them in!
| Favored School Library Media Specialists / Teacher Librarian Blogs | ||
| Hey Jude from Sydney, Australia’s Judy O’Connell | Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog | |
| California Dreamin’ by Rob Darrow | Carolyn Foote’s Not So Distant Future | |
| Diane M. Cordell’s Journeys | Joyce Valenza’s Never Ending Search | |
| Chris Harris’ Infomancy | The Top Shelf written by Mary Woodard of TX | |
| Jeri Hurd’s Bib 2.0 | Diane R. Chen’s Deep Thinking | |
| Alice Yucht’s Alice in Infoland | Sarah Kelly John’s From the Inside Out | |
| Lori Franklin’s Library | Powerlibrarian by twitter friend Congerjan | |
| Gargoyle’s Loose in the Library | Colorado’s “Calling All School Librarians | |
| A Library by Any Other Name | Kathryn Greenhill’s Librarians Matter | |
| AASL Weblog | Lucy and Ethel’s Library Schemes | |
| SCASL Blogs | Valerie Byrd-Fort’s Library Goddess | |
| Fran Bullington’s Informania | Mary Haddon’s Library Blog | |
| Martha Alewine’s Library Corner | Mary Haddon’s “Untitled” Professional Blog | |
| Andi Fansher’s Library News You Can Use | ||
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Tweet Cloud X2
April 24, 2008
After reading Clay Burell today and seeing his Tweet Cloud, I decided to rerun mine from earlier. Why would I want to revisit something that has seemingly caused unrest and turmoil? Well first off, it is now a meme thanks to Clay. I don’t know, but my earlier stab at a tweet cloud was ran without including my @ symbol. That is really not a fair representation, because according to the new Tweet Cloud where I did include it, I spend the vast majority of my Twitter posts using that little symbol we know as “at.” So this is probably a truer representation of my tweets because I have a tendency to respond to my network rather than lead, self promote, or introduce them to my ideas or ways of thinking. Anyhow I’m proud to see that my Tweet Cloud shows this! I don’t have to say it, and you don’t have to believe it. Let my tweet cloud speak for its self.
Oh and <blush> the word “form” made it! My keyboard will not type “from.”
And last, speaking of those in my network who “tweet” new blog posts, I say THANKS. I love getting this preview before it hits the readers. It is like a sneak peek of something that has not been released, and my opinion is valued so much so that I got an early invitation. It makes the post even more special to me. So please keep them coming. Also, remember all the confessions lately where some have allowed twitter to replace their reader? And I confess too–once I am behind by 300+ new posts, I mark all as read and pray that my Twitter network has kept me in the loop. So far that has worked well.
Yes, this is much more reflective of my Twitter use, for good or bad.
UPDATE: Twitter Cloud Poetry:
beach best
needs network
friends from fun
today tomorrow tonight
tools trying tools twitter
class cld come comment
students sure talk
kids know
These are certainly some interesting strings of words….
LARGE words strung together:
blog day no need network new pix post thanks time today twitter – Now someone make me a prolific and memorable sentence.
