Podcast & Video

Personal On Demand media... MediaFly looks fun, but I like the simplicity of Feedzie. Nevertheless, using MediaFly I subscribed to Audiopolis which contains reviews from Audio File Magazine. The first one I listened to was a review of Sherman Alexie's newest and first book for young adults The Absolutely True Dairy of a Part-Time Indian. It includes Sherman Alexie reading excerpts. How cool is that! My former students and I love Sherman Alexie and it would be great for any student to hear the author's real voice. This could be used before, during or after reading the novel as part of a literature circle, AR assignment, to highlight new books in the library, etc. Next, I subscribed to a video feed using Feedzie http://www.evtv1.com/that came up when I searched "Sherlock Holmes." Oldies, but goodies would be great to use in the classroom or the library to introduce units, authors, titles, etc.

While I was in my Bloglines account doing that, I checked The Shifted Librarian and just had to use her mini poster link to create this one of my niece Emilee. She is a sophomore at Ohio State University and although she does read books, she spends a huge amount of time personally demanding her media on her laptop. (The cell phone is always nearby too.) I took this picture months ago but it reminds me of the recent article about what qualifies as real reading - it's all real reading!http://www.ala.org/ala/productsandpublications/READ_Mini_Posters.cfm

I have used YouTube a lot so I checked out Goggle. There were 3,990 hits for the term "librarians." As I was browsing the first list "NJ State Library Outreach to School Librarians" caught my eye. I recently looked at the NJ State Library's website and liked it, so here's the video. Watch out for your favorite School Library Coordinators at SDLA! (Hopefully the video comes up - did I embed it correctly?) The quality is not the best, but the idea is fantastic. All of Web 2.0 can be used for PR from the SDSL. Graphics are great, but photos and video are even better. (Update: I went back and added the video to a new post & it works!)

P.S. The most important thing I have learned from this lesson is you must never try all of these podcast & video things on dial-up! Wild Blue where are you? Thanks to Quynn for the advice on layout and I'm now going to steal her Shelfari idea!