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New York Library Association - School Library Media Specialist Section -  Annual Conference

May 2, 2009

Become an Information Superhero! 

Thanks to everyone who attended this session at SLMS. It was great to get to talk with so many of you. Sorry we didn't get to all the topics in the presentation! You'll find the slides here in pdf.

SHARE  YOUR IDEAS!

You were all sharing such great ideas and examples during the session. I know I didn't get a chance to write them all down. So I hope you'll share them with me and with each other by commenting on my blog. 

Resources and examples from the presentation

Blogs & Information Sources

• Jane's e-learning Pick of the Day
• NeverEnding Search Blog
• Google News - has RSS feeds for your search

Tools to gather and organize information

RSS feed aggregators

• Google Reader
• Bloglines

Personalized Web Start Pages

• Pageflakes
  • Polly's example
  • Shakespeare page - Buffy Hamilton
  • Spanish Flake - Joyce Valenza
  • Books & Reading Blogs - Leanne Windsor
• NetVibes
• iGoogle

Wiki Tools

• Wikispaces
  • Criminal Justice Careers
• PBWorks
  • This page is an example!

More Tools

• delicious
  • Polly's account
  • Creekview High School
  • Cubberley Education Library  - delicious links feed into the blog sidebar
  • Cubberley's links on delicious
• Feed My Inbox - lets you subscribe to an RSS feed by email.
• Google Calendar
  • Unquiet Library Calendar embedded in a blog
  • pafa.net calendar on a blog page
• Twitter
  • nycschools twitter account
  • Schools turn to Twitter to get news to parents
  • Pew Internet Report - Twitter & Status Updating
  • unohighschool twitter account
    • updates embedded on web page

Share Stories, Success, Joy

• Conan the Librarian's Blog - video, photos, podcasts and more
• Pesky Library's flickr account - tons of photos!
  • Pesky Libray Blog
• Animoto
  • Be a Buddy, Not a Bully - animoto video
• Wordle
  • Dixie Grammar School Library - Wordle, photos, presentations, chat box and more.
• Half Hollow Hills - another blog with lots of great stories being shared.
• The Unquiet Library blog - Photos, stories, videos, slides, and more.