Library Thing

Library Thing is a great way to create your own library that people can view and comment on. The site has thousands of popular book titles from any category that you can think of. The search engine makes it easy to find any book you wish. By adding books to your library, the site gives you other books pertaining to that category that you may enjoy. You can also connect to other people who enjoy the same books that you do.

My library

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dj2123

Big Huge Labs.com

This is a site where you can do some pretty funky things with your photos. For example, you can turn a photo into a calender or a movie poster. The site allows you to create slide shows, photo albums, i.d. badges, trading cards, and magazine covers. Winners of phys.ed. class tournaments could get their pictures taken by their teacher and place on the cover of a magazine. Teachers could hang these in the gym for the rest of the school to see. Check this one out!!!

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

Podcasts

Podcasts are pretty new to me but they seem very useful. Subscribing to a podcast is very easy. They can be placed as feeds on your Bloglines account or on your blog. Again, just like You Tube videos, podcasts can provide someone with very good information about a subject. If a student knew what your bloglines account address was, they can check your page for useful podcasts pertaining to certain subjects. When I looked up different podcasts there were some good ones that dealt with health and fitness. They can be found on my bloglines account.

You Tube

You Tube is a site that I spend about 85% of my time on when I am surfing the web. I like it because you can find videos about anything you want to look at. Recreationally, I use it to learn songs on my guitar. Professionally, I also use it to find videos pertaining to coaching football and track. You Tube has videos that can help me become a better wide receivers/defensive back/sprinting coach. These videos have information on drills, techniques, and strategies pertaining to these sports. Posting videos on your blog is a good way to get information across to students in a health/physical education setting or athletes in a coaching setting. Here are some videos I use:

Defensive Back Drills


Tips from Cornerback Champ Bailey


H.S.I. Sprinting Videos (Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon)

Technorati

Technorati is the like the "Google" for blogs. People can do searches for blogs, photos, and videos on this site. Just like many other sites, these blogs, photos, and videos are broken up into different categories such as sports, entertainment, etc. It is a pretty straight forward site and simply another way to obtain information about specific topics. I would use this site as a sports fan. What are others out there saying about the World Series, Super Bowl, or NBA/ NHL Finals? It can also be another way to find different pictures and videos from the internet. Perhaps, Technorati can be a useful tool in finding information on Health and Physical Education topics. Perhaps, I can look up blogs on people who post about specific foods, diets, or eating habits and share them with my students during a nutrition unit.

Del.icio.us

I see Del.icio.us simply as a way to organize some of your favorite websites. It takes bookmarking a step above just adding to your favorites on your desktop. Now instead of needing my own computer to pull up my favorite sites, now I can pull them up by accessing a webpage from any computer. This is actually not a bad idea!! As a teaching tool, students can pull up some of their teachers favorite websites and get information. This is something I would probably use more for teaching health. I may give my students a report to do on a specific disease. If they access my Del.icio.us site, now they can pull up sites that I feel would be helpful to their report.

Google Doc's

I found Google Doc's to be a very easy way to pass around documents via internet. This allows for easy editing and changing of a document. As a Physical Education teacher, I am constantly using editing Microsoft Word documents and passing them to my collegues. I can see myself using this for field day documents, weight training spread sheets, or even health tests. I'm trying to post a document to my blog but it is not going well. I couldn't get it to directly transfer to the blog so I had to copy and paste the url. Anyway, this is a speed and aglity training document that I use during the summer. I am a speed and agility trainer for a number of teams at Parkland High School in Allentown, PA.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfsz2dd8_1f829wtc5

Web 2.0 Awards (Craig's List)

Craig's List was a very interesting website that I found on the Web 2.0 Awards list. I like the fact that you could get information about anything from a particular area in the United States. If you are looking to move into a new area, this is a great site to find information on homes or apartments. Its is exactly like putting an add in the newspaper. One can search for anything that is for sale in the area such as jewelery, cars, or even concert tickets. In fact, I just saw two Jimmy Buffett tickets for sale on Craiglist's. He is playing at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia this summer. I'm there!!!!

RSS

I just finished up opening a Bloglines account. I was able to add some feeds from some of my classmates blogs along with some news feeds pertaining to animals, sports and music. It is important that I receive information about the Seattle Seahawks. Bloglines is interesting because it keeps us up-to-date on the blog posts of our classmates and news that we find interesting. It was very easy to subscribe to each type of feed.

Blogs

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CHANGING PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS
Kajewski, M. A. (2006). EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CHANGING PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS. APLIS, 19(4), 157-163.
-This article discusses the uses of blogs as an information service, as a library service, and as a feedback tool. Blogs can be used to communicate information to students, athletes, and coaches. Information about schedules, fitness activities, and assignments for students. Coaches can share information about the sport such as workouts, drills, and techniques with other athletes and coaches. One can also combine You Tube and blogs to provide the viewer with visual information about the topic.

Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

Web, Library, and Teen Services 2.0
Bolan, K., Canada, M., & Cullin, R. (2007). Web, Library, and Teen Services 2.0. Young Adult Library Services, 5(2), 40-43.
-This article is about the services of Library 2.0 and Web 2.0. These are two services that allow people of the community to experience libraries and the web in new ways. This approach will allow users to express their wants and needs to create a library system that is most useful to them.

Social Networking

Social Networking
Weaver, A.C., Morrison, B. B., Social Networking.Computer (February, 2008)
-This article points to websites that that allow social interaction. Websites such as Myspace, Facebook, and You Tube. You Tube can be a very good resource for Physical Education teachers and coaches. As a football and track coach, I always find myself on You Tube looking for videos on techniques pertaining to the two sports. If I need some ways to help my sprinters come out of starting blocks, I just look it up on You Tube. Sometimes as coaches we share videos pertaining to drills and techniques via email.

Technology and Physical Education

This technology thing is becoming very interesting to me. I would never have thought that sites like myspace, facebook, and phys. ed. would be used in the same sentence. However, this is a technologically advanced society and people are using newer forms of technology (blogs, text messages, etc.) to communicate. As a phys.ed. teacher and coach it can be a good idea to use these new ideas as a way of communicating.

The Babe

The Babe and I at his farewell to Yankee Stadium

Football at the Beach

Welcome to Doug's Blog

My name is Doug Joseph and I am from Allentown, Pennsylvania. I am a Health and Physical Education teacher and coach in the Parkland School District. I am also a graduate student at Fresno Pacific University. Welcome to my blog!!!