Open Mic Night with Joyce Valenza & Moderator Gwyneth A. Jones - The Daring Librarian

On December 5th , Joyce Valenza and Gwyneth Jones shared their top discoveries of the year.

Additionally, dozens of other teacher/Librarians shared their faves and help build an interactive resource book.

View the slides from the crowdsourced google doc which highlights important tools.

Click.to

Watch the video and learn how Click.to may change your workflow and simplify sharing. Hyperlink everything in a flash.

A Way to Organize Your 'To Do' Lists

Russell Tarr shared this tool on Twitter today.  Check out the new & improved TeuxDeux - an online personal organizer. You may end up ditching your Google Calendar when you see this!

Features include:
TeuxDeux features include:
- week overview
- check off, delete, or move tasks
- someday bucket
- jump to a date in the future
- automatic rollover of unchecked tasks
- edit existing tasks
- sync with mobile version (iPhone app)
- Multiple accounts (iPhone app only)

Hoping someone develops an Android app for this.

TeuxDeux Part Deux from TeuxDeux on Vimeo.

New Tools Wiki is worth more than the price of admission

Newtoolsworkshop, a collaboratively built site can serve as an introduction to social media or as a continuing education venue for the more advanced user. Suitable for all ability levels.



Contributions to http://newtoolsworkshop.wikispaces.com are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License.

This was shared on Bright ideas , a blog by the School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV). This is an extremely active blog which I read almost daily. It is well-worth subscribing to; I discovered it because it was a 1st runner up for the 2009 Edublog Awards: Best Library/Librarian blog.

SIGMS: School Media (Special Interest Group) Learning Tools Smackdown

Please listen to the ISTE 2010 Learning Tools Smackdown on the ISTE Vision Network.

(The beginning 15 min. is devoted to an awards ceremony for Technology Innovation).
The following 1-1/2 hour segment is well worth it).

Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is right for your lesson?

Today I discovered this comparison chart for why, how and when to use blogs, wikis, or Google docs. They are compared by nature of the tool, who authors, how collaboration works, organization, updates, benefits, and drawbacks with many links to examples of each.

I see this as a valuable tool for project design in all areas of the curriculum and something to keep in your back pocket as you collaborate with teachers on lessons and project design.

Save and Print! Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is right for your lesson?: A Comparison Chart

I use Diigo for my bookmarking tool and received this as part of the weekly newsletter from Clif's Notes on EdTech Group at Diigo.com
Diigo has much more functionality than Del.ic.ious Give it a try! Click here to view my 600+ bookmarks. The awesome feature I like is that you can create "lists" for topic areas; an automatic slideshow from those lists is only a mouse-click away. This slideshow can easily be linked to a class links pathfinder. I have used this feature as a opening slideshow when a class comes into the library and are logging in to their computers. See an example with this Modern World History pathfinder of primary sources. At the top right see a small green arrow & "Webslides". Click on this to view the bookmarked websites as an automatic slideshow.

Get down with DIRT - Digital Research Tools (DiRT)

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can facilitate research more efficiently or creatively. It is a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools and their usefulness for research.