Archive forOctober, 2008
Goth Lit (vampires and such)
Del.icio.us
I’m a pretty avid user of delicious and looking for ways to use the service beyond just storing my bookmarks. Just the other day as I finally returned to thinking about this blog, I made the mental connection between the sites that I bookmark and the purpose of this blog. That is, many, or most of the sites I bookmark are teaching-related. As i looked into it, what I found was the ability to post my delicious links to this blog as a post, which you should be seeing around this post. I found the instructions by searching the edublogs forum (thank you to the questioner and answerer that provided this info!). Basically it involves using the experimental features in delicious by going to Settings- Blogging-Blog Posting (as pic’d below)
You then have to enter all your settings, which takes a little know-how, which takes some digging and patience. Hopefully, this will fill in the gaps between my quite infrequent postings. An unfortunate side to this (and perhaps someone knows a work-around) is that sites I mark for personal use will also be listed. There won’t be anything that off-key, though.
links for 2008-10-24
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file extension information
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slideshow app for iphone
Genreficationizing
How’s that for a new word? I’m creeping to the edge of librarianship and setting up large sections of my fiction by genre (or quasi-genre). Is this part of Library 2.0 or 3.0? So far I have “Chick Lit”. “Guy Stuff”, “Street Lit”, “Big Boys and Girls” (these are those adult fiction boks not expresssly written for YA, but have the YA appeal [or at least some of them do, others i'm not sure why thery're in our library]). I’m trying to decide what section to do next. It’s a slow process, of course, as I’m having to create the new spce and then shift books on the shelving. I’m thinking this won’t be the whole of fiction that gets genre-ized. And then, what’s going to really appeal to the students? This is definitely developig my relationship with the collection, so I think that’s a good thing.
