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Yay!! Twenty-three Xes all in a row!
I signed up for the course because I thought it would be cool, but I also thought I was kind of cheating since I have already learned and used a majority of the tools covered. Well, surprise, I learned even more, and am very enthusiastic about it all. The real challenge lies ahead, of course, in using the tools well and encouraging & teaching others to use them.
I’m already deep into PageFlakes. You can see the page I’ve made here — several “flakes” on the page pull in information from our official school site, which I’m really excited about. We have so much information scattered all over, so this PageFlake page is a way to present scattered information all in one “portal.” The next thing I’m going to do is put a lot of my pathfinders & style guides into a wiki (the school has a site called WikiPi that’s really taking off) and link to those from the PageFlake portal.
I’m so happy to have these tools. I’m setting the PageFlake page as the homepage for the browsers on the library workstations — I think it’s pretty self-explanatory, and when not, I can fix it. I’ve already taken some feedback from a student, which was really helpful. A possible next step is to create a page for the elementary library, which would highlight and link to elementary appropriate resources. Because they’ll be on the same account, both HS & Elem pages will display in tabs on the same web page. Our elementary library is moving buildings next year (boo hoo!) and having our Welcome pages linked in this way will help keep us connected.
I hope the folks taking the class next have as much fun. Bon voyage!