Session One!

Alice Yucht, (Itinerate Curmudgeon and Teacher-Librarian) -
Webfeeds 101: How Blog Reading can make you Look Brilliant

"As school librarians, we are and should be the CIOs of our building."

Note to self: check out Jott - Directory of Open Access Journals (you can set up RSS feeds by subject!)
Transl8it - translates IM txt lingo

Infoblog - check it out for a description of what a blog is.

Professional blogs - essential professional development and reading for us

Three types:
Personal/Point-of-View - reports of events & impressions
Partical/Purposeful - links to useful info and new resources
Philosophical/Polemical - Explorations/disccussions of Big Ideas

Blogs are instant - hot topics - lifelong learning - conversation>collaboration

Very cool - children's book series wiki!!! Check it out: http://seriesbinder.lishost.org/index.php/Main_Page

Cyber-learning in the classroom: Current Issues in Education

Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Blogging & RSS is "Like having TIVO for your mind."

http://blip.tv/file/205570/ - really simple explanation of how RSS feeds work.

Why read blogs? You have choice of topics, sources, formats, as well as when where and how much to read. You can "gather useful online resources while you sleep."

Hmmm, note to self: check out Google Reader. Like the star feature.

RSS feeds by subject in EBSCOHost - investigate!

Caveat - RSS feed reading can be addicting! Alice suggests setting a time limit for yourself.

http://aliceyucht.pbwiki.com/WebfeedsWorkshop

Blog recommendations at http://aliceyucht.pbwiki.com/YouthServicesBlogList

and http://www.bloglines.com/blog/aliceinfoshow2rss