I was proud of not having any digital footprint to begin the class with. I value my privacy, and I was pretty impressed with my ability to lock up my accounts and keep them private. I worry about exposing my family to the internet with the dangers that lurk out there! I have a personal blog, Pinterest, Faceboook, and a personal Twitter page, and none of those popped up on my round one vanity search.
This time when I did my vanity search typing in Amy Milstead, my eportfolio came up!
http://amymilstead.weebly.com/
I have been working on it, because I am hoping to graduate in August (if the Research class doesn't kill me first!) It actually was pretty cool that it came up because that is a tool I want to professionally speak for me. I'm really excited about it showing up on the first page of the search.
I typed in my Twitter handle amilstead1 and it came up with my Twitter feed. Since that is my professional Twitter page, I am happy that it popped up as well. I would like to make more of a professional digital footprint through the next chapter of my career that starts next year as I become a school librarian. I think I will have opportunities to create my own blog, use Twitter for ideas and collaboration, and using Web 2.0 to make the library relevant and engaging for all students.
Basically, my professional digital footprint has improved through this class, while my private life stays private! It's the best of all worlds and I'm happy I had the opportunity to make my professional digital footprint bigger!
Monday, July 6, 2015
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Aggregating Adventure
I loved this adventure. I had no idea this even existed in the land of the internet. I want this to be my home screen when I log in on my school computer, and I want to keep it up on my home computer too. I can see this being very addicting because it's like everything you want the internet to be in one place! I am still working on figuring it all out, but it seems very user friendly and required very little introduction to the site before I could dive right in and start using it!
I think this could be used very successfully on my job also. Next year I will be starting my first year as a librarian in an elementary school. I will have students from grades Kinder through 5th daily in my library. I will be responsible for a lesson for every grade level. I could make bookmarks for every grade level and store videos, lessons, links, and more on this and have it all available in one place. This makes it so I can store information also for future lessons or to reference something I've shared before. I am thinking ahead too for this website. If I were to be transferred in the next few years to a middle or high school this is absolutely something I would use for older students to store their research in one place. I think this is a great way to store information and access it easily. I would even require this if I were a teacher who required research as part of a grade.
I also think this would be something I could share with teachers as a way to support their curriculum through the library. The role of librarian is changing and I need to be more of an instructional leader. This would give me the opportunity to share and help teachers with out taking their time in staff development. I also think this would be a great way to communicate with parents and let parents know what's going on in the classrooms. I know I would appreciate seeing it as a parent.
This was a fun week because it's the first true adventure I had never explored before. I am learning so much through this class, I'm sad to see it go by so quickly!
Feel free to visit my protopage! It will be a work in progress from here on out!
http://www.protopage.com/milstead
I think this could be used very successfully on my job also. Next year I will be starting my first year as a librarian in an elementary school. I will have students from grades Kinder through 5th daily in my library. I will be responsible for a lesson for every grade level. I could make bookmarks for every grade level and store videos, lessons, links, and more on this and have it all available in one place. This makes it so I can store information also for future lessons or to reference something I've shared before. I am thinking ahead too for this website. If I were to be transferred in the next few years to a middle or high school this is absolutely something I would use for older students to store their research in one place. I think this is a great way to store information and access it easily. I would even require this if I were a teacher who required research as part of a grade.
I also think this would be something I could share with teachers as a way to support their curriculum through the library. The role of librarian is changing and I need to be more of an instructional leader. This would give me the opportunity to share and help teachers with out taking their time in staff development. I also think this would be a great way to communicate with parents and let parents know what's going on in the classrooms. I know I would appreciate seeing it as a parent.
This was a fun week because it's the first true adventure I had never explored before. I am learning so much through this class, I'm sad to see it go by so quickly!
Feel free to visit my protopage! It will be a work in progress from here on out!
http://www.protopage.com/milstead
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Twitter Adventure Part II
http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html
THIS LIST IS EVERYTHING!!!!!
I can not believe all of the different hashtags there are on Twitter that have to do with education. There are hashtags that I don't even understand and I've been in education for 10 years. I really wish I had soeen this earlier in my career. I can definitely see how Twitter will enhance my knowledge of my profession. I really explored #librarians, #library, and #libchat since those apply most to my profession beginning next year. I found a new community that can support me next year.
I played with Tweetdeck. I liked how I could build a custom timeline and lists.
I also played around with HootSuite, though it is not easy for me to understand why I would use it over the Twitter App. I don't like posting the same thing to all my social media accounts. I like having them separate. I continue to use Zite though. I love it. Its my new source of news.
One of my group members in my group project this week introduced me to periscope on Twitter which allows you to share and watch live video broadcasts from your phone. I am still mastering how it works, but I am thinking of how I followed the Boston Bombing Suspect search on Twitter and how cool it would've been to access that broadcast live from my phone. I had Twitter up on my computer and CNN on my television. I was glued to both.
Twitter is still not my favorite social network, but I am seeing more and more ways where it can be incredibly helpful and cool to use on the job and for recreational purposes!
THIS LIST IS EVERYTHING!!!!!
I can not believe all of the different hashtags there are on Twitter that have to do with education. There are hashtags that I don't even understand and I've been in education for 10 years. I really wish I had soeen this earlier in my career. I can definitely see how Twitter will enhance my knowledge of my profession. I really explored #librarians, #library, and #libchat since those apply most to my profession beginning next year. I found a new community that can support me next year.
I played with Tweetdeck. I liked how I could build a custom timeline and lists.
I also played around with HootSuite, though it is not easy for me to understand why I would use it over the Twitter App. I don't like posting the same thing to all my social media accounts. I like having them separate. I continue to use Zite though. I love it. Its my new source of news.
One of my group members in my group project this week introduced me to periscope on Twitter which allows you to share and watch live video broadcasts from your phone. I am still mastering how it works, but I am thinking of how I followed the Boston Bombing Suspect search on Twitter and how cool it would've been to access that broadcast live from my phone. I had Twitter up on my computer and CNN on my television. I was glued to both.
Twitter is still not my favorite social network, but I am seeing more and more ways where it can be incredibly helpful and cool to use on the job and for recreational purposes!
YouTube Adventure
I have been a YouTube lover for many years, but have never truly explored the tools available on YouTube. I tend to use YouTube more for recreational entertainment, as in something to make me laugh! I actually didn't even know you could make playlists until this assignment. Since making the playlists assigned I have made playlists for songs and for videos for my son to watch. He's a big Elmo fan, you know. :) I also made a playlist for myself titled Librarian, where I posted videos that gave me ideas for things to do in my own library next year. One librarian used students to make videos on how to find books in the fiction and nonfiction sections. I LOVE that idea!!! I would probably not have explored the YouTube world for ideas in the library if it weren't for this assignment.
I was surprised at the amount of helpful videos and tutorials I found for both Twitter and Wikis. I have used YouTube many times for helpful tutorials. I just don't think about it for having the tutorials on things like Twitter.
I remember last year my parents' pool started getting algae while they were out of town and I was house sitting. I watched a YouTube video on someone explaining their exact pool pump and how to fix it so the problem would stop. I didn't even have to make a service call because of YouTube.
This assignment inspired me to think of playlists for staff development with teachers and for assignments with students. I think this is a great way to learn at your own pace, and to be informed visually, through audio, and through demonstration. I need to keep YouTube in my bag of teaching tricks!
Here are links to my playlists:
Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCkdEt9PYLLumawbCJs2TzWd
Wikis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCnxoHzAl54WmpuXNAXKY4T1
Web 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCmxnkEtn4v4EThYNifKUBuB
Librarian: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCmaQYVWbSu3q2IrVWeRPn5r
Songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCnMLuNt3MQ_joQmOmcVK1QW
I was surprised at the amount of helpful videos and tutorials I found for both Twitter and Wikis. I have used YouTube many times for helpful tutorials. I just don't think about it for having the tutorials on things like Twitter.
I remember last year my parents' pool started getting algae while they were out of town and I was house sitting. I watched a YouTube video on someone explaining their exact pool pump and how to fix it so the problem would stop. I didn't even have to make a service call because of YouTube.
This assignment inspired me to think of playlists for staff development with teachers and for assignments with students. I think this is a great way to learn at your own pace, and to be informed visually, through audio, and through demonstration. I need to keep YouTube in my bag of teaching tricks!
Here are links to my playlists:
Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCkdEt9PYLLumawbCJs2TzWd
Wikis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCnxoHzAl54WmpuXNAXKY4T1
Web 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCmxnkEtn4v4EThYNifKUBuB
Librarian: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCmaQYVWbSu3q2IrVWeRPn5r
Songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNUacJInMqCnMLuNt3MQ_joQmOmcVK1QW
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Twitter Adventure! TWEET, TWEET!
I enjoyed this experience because I have needed to make a Twitter account to use professionally for a while. I had a Twitter account a while ago, but honestly, I used it to keep up news and a few of my favorite celebrities. Last semester I took part in TLChat through my librarian practicum course and that all takes place on Twitter weekly. I used my old Twitter account for that, but this class motivated me to make a professional account. I hope to be more active on Twitter with this account and follow people/authors who post pertinent information for my new career as a librarian. I loved connecting with my classmates and looking through what they posted. I am going to have to be careful and watch my time with reading their posts though, because I got very into them!
I downloaded hootsuite to my phone, but I don't think I will use it much because I use all of my social media apps for different things. I use facebook to share stories/news of interest and make an occasional status update or share a pic or two of my son. Instagram is by far my favorite of the social media choices, as I don't feel guilty about posting pictures of my son or sharing a video, since that is the entire basis of the site. I also really enjoy following my friends' videos and photos with out weeding through the stories/updates I don't necessarily want to see. I will use Twitter professionally to keep up with things that will help enhance my knowledge of my career. Twitter's character restraints are hard for me because I like to go into detail and
I do like Zite. It reminds me a little of Buzzfeed the way it is set up with you getting to choose what you want to see. I loved getting to share articles quickly from the app. I also loved the articles it offered. I can see myself becoming very much involved with this app! In the past week I have noticed the twitter app logo on many websites I've visited. I don't think I had been so aware of it before.
I will definitely make more of an effort to be active on Twitter to improve my relationships with my colleagues, get ideas for my profession, and stay in touch with the new trends in education and technology!
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Vanity Search
I tried searching two different names, my married name Amy Milstead, and my name with my maiden name in the middle, Amy Openshaw Milstead. My name did not turn up many results, and honestly, that was just fine with me. I did have my photo from the elementary school website show up in the images, of course it was from the year I had just given birth, so it's my least favorite! My full name, Amy Openshaw Milstead, showed my teaching certificates and my old address, which was a bit unnerving.
I do share a name with someone who owns a towing company. I don't belong to Linkedin, but another Amy Milstead does! The facebook link for my name is not even for me, which again, I am proud of my privacy work on that! I have hidden myself successfully from the google search except for my old address, which makes me think my new address is out there somewhere too.
I have been on Twitter before, but have not been following that for a long time. I do love facebook and instagram, and I have had a personal blog before. I also kept a classroom blog when I taught 4th grade. I feel like I have had a bigger web presence than this google search showed, but I have also protected my privacy, and I'm glad to see that it's working too.
I do share a name with someone who owns a towing company. I don't belong to Linkedin, but another Amy Milstead does! The facebook link for my name is not even for me, which again, I am proud of my privacy work on that! I have hidden myself successfully from the google search except for my old address, which makes me think my new address is out there somewhere too.
I have been on Twitter before, but have not been following that for a long time. I do love facebook and instagram, and I have had a personal blog before. I also kept a classroom blog when I taught 4th grade. I feel like I have had a bigger web presence than this google search showed, but I have also protected my privacy, and I'm glad to see that it's working too.
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