Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
New Ideas
One of the sessions I attended at the conference on Friday was on Web 2.0. Be sure to read the December LMC newsletter to get a full listing of the sites or you can go to one of the presenter's directory of web sites @ http://delicious.com/fozzieblue/AfterSchool.
Speaking of delicious, if you haven't looked at it yet, take some time to do so. I have been to lots of presentations that recommend it.
I saw some really good things with Flickr; things that might calm some of your fears about our students and appropriate content. Check out www.flickr.com/commons for museum & library collections. Creative Commons provides licensed photos @ www.flickr.com/creativecommons.
I found it interesting that to cite the photos, the presenter just hotlinked the photo back to its original source. That would be so much easier for our students than their trying to easybib them. What do you think of offering that as an option to the formal citation?
The presenter also did a great demo of customizing a google map. She inserted bullets to make an itinerary and then hotlinked photos to the bullets. It was really cool. I could see that happening with wordnerd's Dozen Ways project next year or Towncat's travel brochures.
Finally I saw two fun sites. You have got to try these:
Wordle is a just for fun site that makes word clouds. I played around with it a little tonight. The one thing I couldn't do was copy it so that I could post it here. My options were to either print it or post it on Wordle. I chose not to post on Wordle. I could see our students getting really creative with this site. Unfortunately, right now it is blocked at school. I'll work to get it unblocked. Check it out @ http://www.wordle.com/
Finally, you have got to try the talking avatars. I plan to make one soon. http://www.voki.com/. I bet hornek will be the first to post a talking avatar.
So much to try, so little time to try it in!
Speaking of delicious, if you haven't looked at it yet, take some time to do so. I have been to lots of presentations that recommend it.
I saw some really good things with Flickr; things that might calm some of your fears about our students and appropriate content. Check out www.flickr.com/commons for museum & library collections. Creative Commons provides licensed photos @ www.flickr.com/creativecommons.
I found it interesting that to cite the photos, the presenter just hotlinked the photo back to its original source. That would be so much easier for our students than their trying to easybib them. What do you think of offering that as an option to the formal citation?
The presenter also did a great demo of customizing a google map. She inserted bullets to make an itinerary and then hotlinked photos to the bullets. It was really cool. I could see that happening with wordnerd's Dozen Ways project next year or Towncat's travel brochures.
Finally I saw two fun sites. You have got to try these:
Wordle is a just for fun site that makes word clouds. I played around with it a little tonight. The one thing I couldn't do was copy it so that I could post it here. My options were to either print it or post it on Wordle. I chose not to post on Wordle. I could see our students getting really creative with this site. Unfortunately, right now it is blocked at school. I'll work to get it unblocked. Check it out @ http://www.wordle.com/
Finally, you have got to try the talking avatars. I plan to make one soon. http://www.voki.com/. I bet hornek will be the first to post a talking avatar.
So much to try, so little time to try it in!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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