Tasks 11 & 12--Professional Development Websites

Finally had time to look at the websites for professional development. Very interesting. Webjunction has some interesting resources/ideas including serving my generation in various ways. One library has a sitting room where people can get together to knit, crochet, and talk. Boulder Public Library has a government information training session coming up on July 31st. Webjunction also offers online learning courses including photoshop, and an e-learning clearinghouse offering library science courses (192) under continuing education.

ALA website offers posters (among many other things), including celebrity "READ" posters. Hey what happened to Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson? I'm bummed. BTW, the "READ" poster hanging in my office placed 5th nationwide in the "Make your own read poster" contest held last year. Sherry Phinney did the handiwork; I provided the cute grandchildren.

PLA has a listing for the next conference, which will be in 2008 in Minneapolis, MN.

This is the logo for the upcoming conference.

CAL has a listing for book reviews, I've actually done three for them, but my last two were lost in the "changeover" to putting the book reviews online and NOT doing fiction. So my review for Absaroka didn't get published, but neither did my review of Zsolt which was a biography of sorts. Maybe it was the review. Hmmmm.

CLiC is a website I use fairly regularly. Everytime there is an update of the courier list, I print it out--essential to ILL.

Colorado State Library has a plethora of information. I did check out the "Reading and Student Achievement" link, "Performance-Based Standards for Teachers" (the link didn't work), and "Model Information Literacy and Guidelines for Students."

LibrarySupportStaff.com site has a great deal of educational support links. I clicked on "Education4you" and encountered lists of free online tutorials, including "Top Free Online Courses." One of the ones offered was photography by the New York Institute of Photography, and they offered numerous courses including a digital photography course.

Wow! After looking at all these sites and the myriad of information and help they offer, I'm overwhelmed and definitely full of it!

After much angst and convinced that I really had broken either Yahoo or del.icio.us.com (or both) I braved logging on to del.icio.us.com again to try to finish organizing my "favorites."

Employing some rather unconventional methods and using my inborn

powers of logic (my kids always referred to me as Mrs. Spock when they were growing up, as in MR. not Dr. Spock)...

I successfully and fairly painlessly (okay, you may call me Mrs. Spock, Superlibrarian) organized my favorites.

You're welcome to give me a "high five" anytime!

Organized...somewhat

Finally took a little time this a.m. and worked on labeling and organizing my "favorites" on del.icio.us. Worked great until I got an error message from yahoo. Gave up and tried again after lunch, but couldn't access del.icio.us at all. Still getting the same error message. Hmmmmm, wonder if I broke it.