Item #17

I have a del.icio.us account from another online class. I have been using it for a short while. I do like it better then the other ways of bookmarking so far. There is great potential for this tool. Research is just one way. When using it as a research tool, Libraries/librarians can take advantages of this social bookmarking site. They can see where other librarians have bookmarked other sites on a subject that maybe you may not have looked up. I plan to use it more as I get use to it.

Item #16

For thing 16 I used iGoogle for my customized start page. It was easy it only took about 3 seconds if that long. The things that appealed to me was it was colorful, easy to use and set up, and it looks fun. I would consider making this a permanent home page. I can lots of uses for the online calendars. It can be useful to me like I stated in an earlier blog, my family will be able to keep up with me and I with them if they use it. I have sen it work. My husband uses an online calendar on his job and it has cut down on some conflict of appointments and meetings being made. The to-do-list could be helpful yes it is a lot of work but it is worth it if you do it right and use it. I will use the online calendar both at work and at home. This is a very useful tool to have.

item#15

This was indeed a fun assignment.I saw how Wikis can be helpful. The way librarians can use it like posting book reviews for students and staff to read. If they do this it will allow the librarians to do something else in the library. Teachers and students can read the reviews on the computer and the librarian update it weekly. I set up an account which was very easy to do. I found the wikis interested because you can brainstorm with others that are not in the same place as you are. Working in Wikis can be hard if you don't read them daily. It can be used in the classroom as a way to check the writing of the students.

Item #14

This one assignment that I was really up to doing. I can't see how I can use it the classroom only thing I can see is using it as maybe a lesson plan chart. The different that I can see in the two is that flowchart can be used to chart the lesson plan. Mind mapping can help me brainstorming of lessons. I looked at all of the sites and I liked Gliffy for flowchart and Bubbl.us for the mind mapping.

Item #13

Please see Test doc for Things 23. It worked this is a great tool image being able to write things in a word document and share it with others across town or country. I can use this as a way to improve on our family newsletter that we have talked about doing. Now we can add to our document without waiting for e-mails to be read and corrected.

test of 23 things

photo of family 
This is a test document of the Zoho Writer's features. I tried to insert a picture and emotion. I did spell check and put in a    This would be a good source to use for students. I have tried to some other things but it didn't work to well. I am trying to post it as a bog if it works ALRIGHT! If not you will read about in the blog.

Item #12

Google is not just a search tool. After looking at each of the tools that we had to look at. I explored the calendar and notebook tool. Now I can use the calendar. How neat is it to have access to your life on-line wherever you go. I don't have a blackberry but I do have a lap top that I can use and I can now put my calendar on line and share it with my family members that have access to the Internet. My sons and husband will love to see when I have class or not since I am in school. It can also help me keep up with my busy life also. The notebook was the other tool that I looked at I am so looking forward to using it during the school year for both the classroom and in my personal class. Being able to put notes from article off the Internet instead of printing the whole article is great. It can also work in the classroom with students doing research papers or more.