Thing 12: Create a Slideshow!

I’ve included three of the photos from my “Castles of Germany” unit in my slide show, which can be found on Kwik Kwik, my Wiki.  As much fun as the slide show programs are to play with, I think that, when I present this lesson on the Activboard, I will use the new preview capabilities [...]

Thing 11: Photosharing with Flickr

In addition to their regular library visits each eight day cycle, our Pre-1st students come up for Library Links. For these classes, I provide a visual journey on our Activboard that relates to the subject they are studying.  Often, it is a country and one of the countries that they study is Germany.  Below, is [...]

Thing 10: Get Creative with Creative Commons

When I followed the link to the copyright chart in the introduction to this lesson, I immediately downloaded a PDF so that I would have that chart to offer as guidance to teachers concerning the fair use of copyrighted material.  I also wanted to create a file for Creative Commons info, as well.  Upon linking [...]

Thing 8: It’s a Wiki Wiki World

Back in 2002, when I ditched a 30 year career in film and video production to become a librarian, I naively thought that I would be entering a world of books and literature and leaving behind all of that “glorious” technology that had defined my professional life for so long.  Wrong!  I may have entered [...]