http://booklady127.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:55:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While surfing around for information on Web 2.0, I came across a website called vidipedia.org. This is just another in a new generation of the web where anyone can upload videos that are organized by both tags and topics.   At the log on screen you can see a random clip of ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2007/03/05/cool-source-for-videos/ It is great in this crazy world we live in that one of the leading headlines of the day is that the last Harry Potter book will be coming out this summer on July 21st.  Can you believe that with the publication of the 7th and final Harry Potter called  ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2007/02/01/last-harry-potter-book/ It's that time of year when high school students are preparing for midterm exams.  As the mentor of a freshman group, I have been making packets of info to help students get ready for the "big" event.  One of the better websites is TestTakingTips.com .  It covers everything from true & ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2007/01/17/midterms/ Scanning the news today I found a great posting at AOL News about a man who returned a library book he took out in 1960.  http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/man-racks-up-huge-fee-for-overdue-book/20070107101409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001 Overdue materials are the bane of every librarian and here at school it is no exception.  What people don't understand is ... that a lost book ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2007/01/08/overdue-books/ Time Magazine created controversy by naming their annual "person of the year" as you and I ... the people who create blogs and other online content for anyone anywhere in the world to read.  So I guess that means ME!!  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html  I've been online in some form or another since the early 90's ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2007/01/02/time-magazine-person-of-the-year/ This past week I had the opportunity to chat with a woman named Margaret who is working on her GED.  Margaret is a middle-aged woman who dropped out of school in her early high school years to take care of her family.  She is now going blind due to macular ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2006/12/11/education-not-taken-for-granted/ Having access to information 24/7 is what the promise of the Internet is all about.  But if your Google search is unwieldy and Ask Jeeves just doesn't have the answer, you can go online to the Mass Answers link at the Worcester Public Library website and ask a question of ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2006/11/17/information-247/ There are many pundits that question the need for libraries and librarians in a world of 24/7 information on the Internet. What is curious is that the same notion can be exactly the reason why there should be librarians.   Are you looking at the issue as a glass half empty or half ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2006/11/08/changing-role-of-librarians-media-specialists-too/ I will be attending a workshop at Mt. Wachusett Community College in Gardner on June 8th to take part in something that is very important to helping students be truly ready for college.  http://www.cmrls.org/CE/mycollegefreshman.html Heidi McCann along with CMRLS will be providing the forum to help high school teachers, college professors, and business ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2006/06/07/my-college-freshman-is-your-high-school-senior/ With the popularity of websites like MySpace and Facebook, social networking has taken the world by storm.  Kids and sometimes their parents are naive about what gets posted and who sees it. What kids today don't know is that there was a generation before them that was addicted to their ... http://booklady127.edublogs.org/2006/06/05/privacy-or-something-like-it/