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Thanks to Kate Sheehan (Loose Cannon Librarian) for live blogging the sessions she attended today with Mary Ellen Bates at the Greenwich Library. Wow, tons of terrific search tips in these posts! Check ‘em out.

• Mary Ellen Bates at Greenwich Library
• Mary Ellen Bates 45 search tips in 60 minutes
• Advanced Search Secrets with Mary Ellen Bates

Free - if you install it today - June 25, 2008.

Wondershare QuizCreator - a robust Flash quizzing and testing tool
that helps instructors easily create Flash-based quizzes and tests as
online assessments to track and manage learning performance.More than efficient edting, QuizCreator can integrate a variety of
multimedia and interactivity to engage and interact with learners.
Owing to the customized player templates, flexible publishing options
and advanced results tracking and reporting kit, QuizCreator is ideal
to create professional quizzes with little skills and efforts.

Looks useful, though I haven’t had a chance to install it yet.

Viewzi takes your search terms, tries to figure out what you’re looking for and get the most relevant results. Sounds like every search engine, right? Viewzi’s twist is in the variety of different “views” within the search results and the highly visual presentation. The results are grouped into categories or “views” like shopping, weather, photos, videos, web pages, mp3’s, etc. And then presented in a snazzy flash based visual format.

A search for DDR mats brought back the Shopping view as the first view. The view made it easy to browse results from Amazon, ebay, Target and WalMart. The Recipe view accurately returned no results, while the Weather view revealed that it was 81 and sunny in Defiance, MO. Oh well, if I were really looking for DDR Mats, I wouldn’t have bothered to look at the Weather view. (more…)