Saturday, April 2, 2011
Being a teacher librarian today involves technology. The management, access and organization of information have always been a part of being a librarian. Teaching these skills to students should be our central focus. There are interesting things going on with information on the web. Sites such as netvibes allow you to aggregate different forms of information from the web. This brings together various news feeds, social networking sites, emails and other continuously updating information. You can also add bookmarks or links to commonly used websites you're always going to. You can add a range of search bars and image searches making them all available from a central location. They call this a dashboard. Instead of your gas and oil temperature (which i never need to know anyway) you can have a host of other real time information conveniently organized. With maps and news scrolls it is a lot like a highly customizable yahoo homepage. Like yahoo, I would like my news feeds to scroll and be able to have pictures if they're attached to a news piece and I so choose. Something I havn't seen yet. There are always new widgets to add to the dashboard, not all of them seem to work though.
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