Method 4

I chose the following three Google Reader subscriptions:

Library Story Time http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Flibrarystorytime.wordpress.com%2Ffeed%2F

I'm always looking for fun ideas to use with my PreK and K students.

Quotes of the Day
http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quotationspage.com%2Fdata%2Fqotd.rss

It's amazing how often you can insert a quote into a conversation and sound REALLY well-read.

Unshelved
http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unshelved.com%2Frss.aspx

Just the funniest library comic ever, and a happy way to start a work day.

Method 3

OK, I had no idea that I'm a cloud computer user. I religiously back up all my documents on a flashdrive--lesson learned the hard way--so if you had asked me where my "stuff" is I would pull the flash drive out of my purse and show you. I never really thought about all my other information that is stored elsewhere like at Amazon and Google.

I don't think I'll ever really move to using 100% cloud-based computing simply because personally I don't use a lot of the applications mentioned in the articles, but that doesn't mean that my teenagers won't want to be able to walk into our high school or public libray and use cloud-based computing there. I just hope someone grounded in reality like Jenny Levine will be there to mentor them.

Methods 1 and 2

It's pretty exciting that I'm able to even access this website. Our district blocks all "weblogs" along with just about anything that might be considered offensive to the residents of our small town. The other 2 librarians in the district and I had to have our tech guy unblock blogger.com so we could even begin this inservice. I guess we'll have our work cut out for us if we want to educate our students about and promote the web tools that are available to us.