Tags

I think the tagging is much more useful than bookmarking and adding to favorites. I have a long list of both on my computer, but they are not organized in any useful way! I created a del.icio.us account for us to use at the Library to tag storytime sites that we use all the time. We are a branch system and we don't get to meet as a Children's Department very often, so I think we could use the tags to share information and the sites we are using for our story time programs. Also we are working on Early Literacy skills and I found a lot of good sites that we can share with each other. I like reading the comments about the sites!

YouTube

I had a lot of fun watching videos! The one I chose is my niece's band out of Los Angeles, Suicide Cowboy. She is the fiddle player and very good! I can see why people are enjoying YouTube. There is a wide variety of videos, some informational, some pretty silly! I know how to help people find what they're looking for on YouTube so that will help library customers. I could see making a video of a special library event or storytime song, finger play, etc... and posting that on our website at some point.

Podcasts

I enjoyed looking at and listening to the podcasts. I subscribed to a couple -- one political and one for book reviews. I think the book review one will be good to keep me up to date on some new books. I think our customers would also like the book review site because it is fun to hear what others think of books you've read. People could get ideas of what to read next also. One thing I noticed while looking at the podcasts is that some of them are quite dated. Maybe they are not updated as often as one might think! Also, some of them are very long. I had to stop several that are 45 minutes long or more! I'm probably not going to spend that much time on a podcast!

LibraryThing

There are so many good books; it was hard to choose just five! I picked some my book club has read and a couple that I'm currently reading. I enjoy the book reviews.

My creation

My creation
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This exercise was fun! It was hard to choose which creation to blog. My kids are going to love these sites!