Flaunt your Twitter with Twitstamp

I've been busily trying to organize all my Twitter bookmarks into some semblance of order so that I can use them to work on a More Things on a Stick wiki entry. I found I had over 340 entries for Twitter in Delicious, so it was a painstaking process to whittle them down and try to order them. Finally decided that there were just too many for one wiki entry so we will be doing two Things related to Twitter.

In the course of checking them out I decided to see what TwitStamp would do.

Here a tiny version of the TwitStamp:


Here's a small single tweet stamp chosen from a selection of eight varied styles:

Here's a medium Twitstamp chosen from eight different styles:


Here's the the general TwitStamp card I generated:

Twitstamp made it really easy to generate the stamps/cards. You simply plug in your Twitter username/ID, select from one the the three categories below the username blank chosing latest from user, single tweet ID, or Twitcard and click the Generate button. Your stamp/card is generated. Click on the size, then style of stamp/card you wish to use,and the code appears in three forms below. You then can copy the code you need for whatever use you need. You can also save the image to use as a graphic file. It couldn't be much easier. You can use it to illustrate your blog or other social media site, breaking up the monotony of too much plain text.

It appears that the tweet changes in each stamp to update to your most recent twitter post.

Thing 10 - Wikis

I viewed the Common Craft video and checked out the various links in thing 10. The Subject guide wikis at SJCPL were of varied levels of development. Some were good, some not as well developed. But that's the strength of wikis, they can be edited and developed over time. The Princeton Library (NJ) use of a wiki for book reviews for a book club was a nice snapshot in time, but I liked better their incorporation of the reviews into their catalog. Looking at the Library Success wiki showed that they have had to resort to e-mail confirmation for editing because of vandalism--there's always got to be rotten apples to make things more difficult.

I was pleasantly pleased to find that the Aurora Public Library was among the blogging libraries in the Blogging Libraries Wiki. Their librarian is currently one of those who has completed the 23 things program. You can read her 23 things blog here: Paula's 23 Tech Things

I can understand why teachers might not allow Wikipedia as a source for writing papers. How do you know the author's work is authoritative? But they really should encourage students to visit it to find where else they might go for authoritative material on a topic. And it would be a great part of a unit on how to evaluate reference material and resources which is what students should be learning to benefit them for the rest of their lives. While I can understand teachers wanting to encourage use of many different formats, I don't believe that limiting use by format is at all helpful or necessary. With the ability to access many primary resources online today, the internet should not be excluded simply because it isn't the "standard" accepted print media.

I added an entry to the 23 things on a stick wiki and signed and dated the entry. I included a photo (above) of the birthday cake my husband bought me recently which I immediately thought would have been great to add to a storytime celebration or summer reading program event. Let's hope we never get too old to appreciate storybook characters!