Thing 2

I have been all over the place reading blogs and I do mean all over the place. Wow. I explored the Delicious tags to narrow my search to school librarians and am amazed by the countries represented. So many from the UK, Sudan, Thailand, Canada? Wow. As I stated in my previous post, I earlier participated in 23 Things Kansas which was cool to connect with librarians in my own state, but this is awesome! It is good to hear about librarians in other states who face the same issues ie. blocking websites, the perception of librarians, budget cuts, etc. I was impressed with A Cloud Clearless Sky in Scotland who is definitely not a newbie to blogging. Love the name The Lucky Librarian in South Carolina - "Lucky to be teaching children to love reading and technology". So refreshing. And "Coming Together in the Library" from Virginia - we are all coming together through our learning in 23 Things.

Giving it another Try!

OK. So I tried this once and didn't finish. And I'm not going to beat myself up over it, I'm just going to give it another go. If at first you don't succeed.......blah, blah, blah. I started "23 Things Kansas" last year and encouraged by library aide to do it with me. Wouldn't that be fun to learn together? Guess who finished and got her certificate (proudly displayed over her desk) and who didn't? How embarrassing is that??? Oh well. Now my "former" library aide (more on that later) has gently nudged me to try it again. (Because she now twitters, blogs, facebooks, etc., she found out about this.) Not sure whether to thank her or kick her. Charlene, if you ever read this, I really am thanking you. :) Now that summertime is here I don't have any excuses. Well, never mind , I can always find excuses.

I would really like to participate in this again, try new technologies that I may not know about yet, and not have to depend on Charlene. Especially since I don't have Charlene anymore! Our middle school closed this year in May and I will be moving from the middle school to high school and I want to be on top of my game. Nothing new that the kids know more than me, I just want to not appear stupid. Have I mentioned that I will not have Charlene anymore? How scary is that? 2000 students and no library aide! At least we still have a library for now, so I'm not going to stress out over it.

So, my main goal is to learn new things, get more comfortable with the things I already know and most importantly, be able to share these wonders with my colleagues come fall. Fall? Are you kidding me? I mean August 13. :)