Red's Journey Through Bookland

Topic of the blog today are Infographics! Experience: I fell in love with Infographics my first year teaching. They are normally high interest topics with engaging graphic representation of information. I love incorporating them into teaching, because it allows for analysis of informational text and graphics while more engaging than most reports or articles. Picture A: An infographic, I used when teaching high school English I- the infographic was chopped up into pieces and mixed with other infographics and the students had to match them together like puzzles. Evaluating the content and design to match the pieces together. Picture A I have created some for classes and used infographics as resources, but I have never asked my students to create them. So today I have been tasked to look at three different web 2.0 applications to create infographics to decide which I like better. The three applications are: Piktochart , Infogram , and Easelly . Trial: First off, I creat...

Blogging has become such an important part of our world- helping us connect socially, academically, and personally. Today on the blog, Blog Feed Readers and the Blogs we Follow. Blog Feed Readers: Blog Readers (or RSS Apps) were created to compile all of the blogs, youtube vlogs, and news feeds in one place so that you do not have to go search all over the internet to find updates. There are plenty of RSS apps out there to help readers- now all you have to do is find the best one that suits your needs. Each RSS Service offers many different options from free to a monthly subscription. So when I looked over the options I decided I needed to evaluate what I wanted out of the RSS service. The things I looked for was:  1. Ease of use 2. Format (picture to written ratio) 3. Platform use The Blog Reader I ended up settling on was Feedly . I chose Feedly because it was really simple to use. After you finish creating your free account, the website prompts you to create...

Facebook or Twitter: Which one is better for a library's promotion and networking?  We have all had a lot of experience with facebook and twitter. They are the way that we communicate across countries, develop relationships, maintain relationships, and sometimes even for self promotion. Look at me and all the great things I am doing! Now why not do this for your library? Many people have had this idea- this is a look at how successful these two social media networks are for promoting libraries.  Facebook;  When I did my initial search for school library pages I had to scroll past many Library organizations, non-profits, and educational resources before I was able to find any effective school library pages. These are the Library pages that I found:  Green Forest High School Library  Green Forest, AR On this Facebook page for Green Forest High School's Library, you can tell that the Media Specialist uses this page to advertise the success of...