the big house library

yesterday at our faculty meeting, mr. wade and i were asked by ms. scheele to tell fellow teachers about delicious.

delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows you to take your web browser bookmarks with you to what ever computer you happen to be at by putting them on the web.

delicious can help you search:
you can use delicious to see what others with similar search interests have bookmarked. chances are that someone has beaten you to the web and found what you're looking for first. save yourself time: don't search google; search delicious! browse tags, browse users, browse popular and recent bookmarks. search smarter, not harder.

delicious can help you organize:
you can use tags to group links and easily and quickly locate them later.

delicious can help you teach:
you can save sets of links on topics you teach in your classes and hyperlink to those URLs on your teacher web page.

delicious can help you network:
you can add other teachers to your delicious network and share your common links. here's who's on delicious at casa so far: ms. koval, mr. wade, mr. backman, the counseling department, the students! :)

delicious is by no means the only social bookmarking site on the web; there are upwards of 100 social bookmarking options! so pick one, sign up, and start using it today! you'll love it! i know it! :)

here are more links to help start you on your social bookmarking adventure:
my list of social bookmarking bookmarks on delicious

and here's a screencast of me showing you what delicious is and how to use it:
screencast.com/msannakoval/delicious

(this link is also on the just for teachers page of this website)

i double dare you to start right now! bookmark this blog post using the  addthis button below. :)
 

dear teens and others,

despite mr. wade's and my last-minute efforts to collaborate on something cool, teen tech week sort of snuck up on us this year. we were both  super-busy with other school stuff and, to be honest, i get sort of tired of publicizing programs that only a few people pay attention to. i mean, in this case, plenty of students are in the library using technology regardless. i didn't need to make a big deal about it, and this year i didn't have the heart (or the budget) for it.

so, what did we do? well,  we did what we would have done anyway, only without the fanfare. no banners or fliers; nothing formal or fancy; just some simple electronic games and all-around good clean fun! :)
 

 
maybe next year we'll go all out with a tournament and prizes and a whole lot of hoopla. maybe not. the point of teen tech week isn't to get teens to use more tech. teens today practically eat tech for breakfast! the point of teen tech week  is to get teens to use libraries' non-print resources. and casa's teens do that everyday! :)

so, on that note, we say so long to teen tech week 2010 with a techy geeky song (or 10) from mr. wade via boingboing: popten's top ten geek anthems.

happy teen tech week to one and all! :)
 

hey teens!

get a free book for teen tech week from awesome author cory doctorow! :) he's the same writer who put his ebook on book glutton for free. he's pretty remarkable; check out his blog craphound.com. (sorry, i know i could have hyperlinked that differently; i just felt like typing "craphound" in my own blog!) :)

anyway, it looks to be a page-turner about gamer teens from all over the world who use multiplayer online games to network and fight their abusive, oppressive bosses.

i've already requested a copy for casa, but if you'd like a free copy of your own, click here and read the fine print. :)

p.s. if any librarians are looking for a review of this book, here's one by phronko.

 
here's a list of what you've been reading lately -- the top 40 fiction books to circulate at the big house library in the last month.  need a new good book? try one of these! :)
 

 
p.s. the idea for this post came from the always-inspiring ms. buffy hamilton @ the unquiet library. have a look at creekside georgia's top 25! :)
 

 
[click here to watch this video on our youtube channel]