LibraryThing has been an invaluable tool for us and with the redesign of the fiction area this year, it has been amazing. We love to post the widgets on our webpage. See an older post about how Blue Valley West High School Library uses Librarything.
Slide sharing is a great instructional tool. I seem to be repeating myself from the other 23 things posts when I mention how I love to embed these into libguides. But looking at Slideshare today, I noticed some new and improved features (at least new to me) that I can’t wait to use… *Slideshare playlist [...]
At Blue Valley West, we use Meebo in the library for instant messaging. It has been on our home page for two years and this year, we added it to all of our libguides. Pros: 1. Some students feel more comfortable initiating a question through text (similar to their draw to text messaging maybe?). [...]
http://delicious.com/beccamunson How I use delicious: *Keep track of all my bookmarks *Send bookmarks to my colleagues *Newsletter09 tag – with my bloglines account and twitter, I find good links from a variety of people. Links helpful for teachers I tag, Newsletter09. Each month for our newsletter I visit this tag to see what we should [...]
Why can’t all meetings be online (or for that matter covered in an email)? Yes, online meetings may take away natural conversation, but the pros far outweigh the cons. An online meeting allows me to multi-task! I have only attended vendor webinars in the past. They can be quite painful. I need to remember – [...]
