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Online Outreach for School Library Media Centers

 

10 Tech Tools to Build Connections

 

 

In class exercise:

Pick two or three ideas that you interest you and try them out.  We'll share experiences and tips during the session. There's no handout for this session, so you'll need to explore the tools to find out how they work. Use the instructor and your fellow students as resources to help you figure things out.

 

The 10 Tech Tools 

 

1: Google Calendar  (google.com/calendar/)

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2: Blogs

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3: RSS

RSS lets people subscribe to your content and get the latest updates automatically. This content could be: blog posts, events updates, delicious links, twitter updates, flickr photos, articles from your databases - anything that has an RSS feed. And these days, tons of services have RSS built in.  

 

People can use any number of tools to subscribe to your RSS feeds.

 

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4: iGoogle, NetVibes, PageFlakes

iGoogleNetVibes, PageFlakes

These are great tools for monitoring updates from a wide range of sources, Help your students, teachers, parents and administrators keep up to date with their favorite news sites, professional reading, fun stuff and of course, your library content!

 

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5: Twitter (twitter.com)

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6: delicious (delicious.com)

Delicious helps you organize your favorite web sites and share them with others.

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7: Flickr (flickr.com)

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8: Animoto (animoto.com)

 

Take all those photos you have on flickr and turn them into an instant video.

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9: Google Docs - Get Feedback (docs.google.com)

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10: LibraryThing (librarything.com)

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NOTE: Here's a quick screecast on how to create a search alert in a Gale database and then add it to your iGoogle  page.