LIS724 Blog Assignment July 13, 2008

I created my blog for a LIS class: Internet Fundamentals & Design.  (I created one for my reference class, too, but I don’t know what happened to it).    I chose this design because it was “fun,” and I liked the organization of the aesthetics and additional information.  About two months ago, I created another blog about my family/baby.  Initially, I was going to try blogger.com (because my friend uses that site), but I found myself frustrated with uploading pictures and videos, so I went back to WordPress because I liked the media manipulation tools a little better and I’m more familiar with the site.  (I use a different background template for my personal blog–one that is a little cleaner)

I find the creation and maintenance of blogs very easy and fun!  I update my family blog often, and knowing that my family and friends read/see my entries keeps things interesting. I really want to create one for my classes this school year, so we can discuss our readings/topics differently every once in awhile.

After I created my LIS blog, I started reading lots of educational and library/information science blogs.  I love them!  Some of my favorite include TametheWeb, Stephen’s Lighthouse, The Shifted Librarian, Library Stuff, YPulse (there’s another one for Ybooks), and the Information Literacy Land of Confusion Blog. I was not familiar with Adventures in Educational Blogging, but I just checked it out, and I gotta say it’s pretty cool and definitely useful for anyone in education.  (No activity since June 30th, so she might be on summer vacation.) I love the amount of technological tools she uses, links to, and reviews.  Her site serves as a great introduction to many Web 2.0 tools that I was not aware of.  I’m going to subscribe to this site!  (I use Netvibes as my RSS aggregator.)