Posts from ‘November, 2007’

This has a been a surprisingly unusual day.
Things started with 2 half-day training sessions for staff at the New York State Library. About 50 people came out to hear me bombard them (and I do mean bombard!) with web2.0/library2.0 ’stuff’. They then got some projects going and had lots of good discussions. Best of all, [...]

Check out this fun ‘buggy music’ widget for the NYS Summer Reading website. It’s a sample of some fun music from Sonific. Really easy to create and free. The code for the sample widget is on the same page.

Want to see what other educators are doing with wikis, blogs, social networking, video, virtual worlds and more? Check out the finalists for the annual Edublogs Awards or “Eddies”. Tons of great ideas there. And while you’re there, VOTE!

Book Blizzard - What at terrific project at Stillwater Free Library (NY) - a reading challenge to the whole town and a fund raiser to boot. The funds will go towards making their wonderful old building handicapped accessible.
The Book Blizzard blog has lots of fun stuff going on: Santa reading “The Night Before Christmas”, holiday [...]

These More to Explore tips are a follow up to the school library tech camp programs that many of you participated in during the summer/fall 2007. For those who didn’t get to tech camp, we hope these tips are useful to you too.
These are quick posts about 2.0 tools with tips on learning more and [...]

Saw this on LISNews today. Techsmith is offering a free download of an older version of Camtasia Studio (version 3). Their free downloads usually expire after a 30 day trial, but now they’re offering a free registration key to install it for good. If you do want to upgrade to the latest version, you’ll be [...]