# 6 Online Image Generators

I used hairmixer.com to try out a new look. What do you think? If I were single I could use this to meet a man..... I will have to play around with it a little more to figure out how to use it for school. I'm sure playing with your pictures would make for a fun creative writing illustration.

#5 Fun with Flicker (mash-ups)

I found a site that allowed me to create a photo album or slide show and put it into HTML code. It was very easy to use. I could see this being put on a library, school or classroom website. I used it below to show the pictures of my daughter's new dance costume. There were many other mashups. One allowed you to put a picture on a google map. This too would be nice for a school website. You could put a picture of the school on the map.

#5 Fun with Flicker

#4 Flicker

I know that I will soon run into the password problem. I have different passwords for all of these great tools. Some need numbers others do not.
Flicker was neat. I hadn't seen it before. I could see value in having the pro version for students to use. It seemed very user friendly. I have used shutterfly in the past and thought this was going to be very similar but there were differences in how you edit your photos.

#3 RSS feeds

I added an RSS feed to my blog. I like the idea of having new content on your page without having to write it. Another LMS suggested having blogs about children's lit on their library page.
Adding the feed was a little tricky. I got a little confused and distracted in google reader. Once I figured it out I could do it again without problems.

# 2 Library 2.0

The term Library 2.0 was new to me. I think the Minneapolis public library does a good job of this. I have also heard of some libraries having myspace pages. The key point was not to get stuck doing things the way we have done in the past. Somewhere it said to reach out to our future tax payers, so they become library users and find our services valuable. I found that to be a powerful statement.

#1 Created Blog

Seemed simple enough. I even got my avatar on my page. I'm excited to learn new things.
Some of the media specialists in my district have created library blogs. This is more for high school and middle school populations. I need to figure out how to use this for an elementary school. Perhaps for parents or teachers to become more involved.