Blog here, blog there, bye Google calendar

Blog here, blog there, bye Google calendar

Here I am, back at my home media center after being there at Bonnie Johns (that did not burn down despite the 'get out now' situation of last week.)

I have now gotten over Google calendar. After taking so much time adding my class schedule to my calendar and the two people who were coming the next day to it, I AM DONE WITH IT!!! At first, I saw an email on the day of my visitors' arrival and thought "how cool." Then, for every day of the week, emails were showing up telling me about every class that was to come to the library that day. That added 6-8 emails every day to my ever growing daily email pile! Too much! I can walk over to the door of my room and see who's coming and when. Enough already. Today, I spent about five minutes deleting every class from the calendar. I may use it for personal calendar reminders, but daily schedule, no way.

Shari, my supervisor, shared some inauguration web sites with me, so I passed it on to the staff. I also played around seeing some fabulous education/library media blogs that folks write that were voted on by peers. This is not one of them, but I did see some wonderful ideas. I saw them at home and bookmarked a few as faves.

Last week, I mentioned my goal of notating some cool sites, so here are two:

http://www.ReadKiddoRead.com - Robert Patterson, author of adult novels, has created this site for parnets, students and children's book lovers listing books with different grade levels and interest levels. He has the photo of the cover, a review, links to book sellers (Amazon, B &N, etc) and other reviews of the books are found on the side. Similar titles are listed below. This is one that I will pass on.

http://www.ala.org/greatsites.com -This is just what it says, great sites that the ALA has found that will help with searches for students. They are organized by grade level and subject area. Each one is annotated. These are safe sites for children. This is another that I will be passing on.

My other techy thing this week was digital photo documentation of the student teacher/artist in residents. I will also be taking the digital photos and videos made about my project for the Walter's Art Museum and creating a presentation. What kind, I do not know yet. I am working with Regina Stimson on it.

Oh help! I can't find the save part!!!! Oh Dahh...it is at the top, I was looking at the toolbar. Fshewww!

12/9/2008BauernschubMary Beth