Platypus otherwise known as watermole

My comparison of free wikis (work in progress)

I've worked with wikis for almost every class in the MLIS program and they have all been hosted at PBwiki, but I was curious whether or not it was the best choice (for my purposes) or just the popular choice in the program and amongst the Library Learning 2.0 crowd. I started with Wikipedia's entry on wiki farms. I immediately ruled out subscription hosting sites which left:


BluWiki
ClearWiki
EditThis.info
GROU.PS SuperWiki
Hive Wiki
Intodit
MyFreeWiki
Netcipia
Uwiki.com seems to still be a work in progress the wiki is here.
Wikia
Wikihost.org
Wiki-site.com
Wiki Spot
Wikkii
WikyBlog.com

This is a good reference to using the engine that most of these wikifarms use.

Still reviewing these sites. . .

This is a great article that deflates some of the hype around wikis.

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

Thanks Chad!

Testing Pixelpipe

So I should be able to update my status and write blog posts to multiple sites from my phone with this app.

Tiger Girl

Sky@Catherine's birthday

Posted via Pixelpipe.

Library Service Class

We had a great time this week!

Giving red blood cells for the blood drive

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Notes on Ch. 12-15 Taxonomies of the School Library Media Program 2nd Ed. by David Loertscher

"Like other levels of the model, however, it is easy to spend an inordinate amount of time on direct services and ignore the information infrastructure and the four central program elements." So true.

I'd like to get students to do reading advisory through our catalog. I imagine a catalog that is Amazon like in that it will list reviews by students of the books that are held in the library.

I'd also like to work on business and national partnerships.

If my number one problem is lack of support staff, I need to create job descriptions of each of the things that could be delegated.

Six principles of collection development:

1. The collection of the library media center must be appropriate for the community a school draws from.
2. A plan to build a curricular-oriented collection with the accompanying policies, staff expertise, and realistic budgeting practices is in place.
3. An acquisition system that matches curricular priorities is in place.
a. How do you select your materials? Mostly I try to get feedback from others, then I try to see gaps in our collection that need to be filled, finally I try to get books that have received awards.
b. How do you prioritize your purchases? Text books first - then texts found in the bibliographies of text books, then faculty requests, then student requests.
c. How do you keep track of spending in terms of curricular support? I don't. This is an area for growth.
4. Each type of media included in the library media center is considered a system consisting of the materials, the accompanying equipment, the support staff, and facilities, among other concerns.
5. Collections in single schools are constantly changing to meet current needs.
6. Collections reflect democratic ideas, intellectual freedom, and cultural diversity.

I need to review the collection policy made in the past and develop a collection mapping plan using the model on pg. 210.

I'd like to create the Experimental Learning Commons and one of the first steps will be creating the Teacher Respite area-- both physically and virtually.

We covered a lot of evaluation in the management class and I have been to a Balanced Scorecard seminar, so much of the last chapter was a review.