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Glogster: taking posters to a whole new level

Glogster for Education lets you create online posters with graphics, photos, text, video and audio. Wow, what a great tool for student projects. I can see lots of other fun uses for this in public libraries too.
Though Glogster has been around for a while, I just heard about it today in a twitter post [...]

Google Maps & Wikipedia. Can you find your library?

When you look at Google Maps these days, you’ll see links to Wikipedia articles (and tons of other stuff too!). Yet another reason to make sure your library has an article about it in Wikipedia. Check it out.

(graphic from Google Lat Long Blog)

(Google map for Guilderland NY with Wikipedia article in a pop up)
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Buzzword – Adobe’s Web-Based Word Processor

Just ran across Buzzword, a fairly new web-based word processor from Adobe. It has a very slick interface and lots of features. You can share your documents with others, designating them as “co-authors” with editing privileges, “reviewers” who can leave comments but not edit and “readers” who have read-only access. Multiple versions of a document [...]