#13 Online Productivity Tools

All three seemed very similar to what users of MSN or a customized yahoo start page have been using for a long time. The only exception would be the ability to incorporate youtube videos and fickr pictures. However, I don't know how many times I need to see my youtube videos. I have them on my blogger site, my facebook and see them when I log into youtube. I am learning though this process that their is a 2.0 tool for everything and for many things several.

#12 Do you Digg?

I checked out all 4 sites. Digg had an onscreen tutorial which was helpful in explaining how the site works. I watched the video tour on Mixx which explained how to set up an account and how the site works. Both Digg and Mixx include news and pictures. Reddit seemed the most basic and not as visually appealing as the other 2. I think I would be most likely to use newsvine which seems most newspaper like. I check the startribune online everyday and prefer its format to a traditional newspaper. This was more like that, where the others seemed to be more google like.

#11 Tagging & De.li.cious

This one is a no brainer. Our teachers create bookmarks for personal and educational use. Instead of saving them to our network, we should have each teacher create a De.li.cious account. It will even create a button to make it easier. This will help a teacher be able to access their bookmarks from home and also make it easier when we refresh a teachers' computer. Teachers can also create accounts that their students can access with links to help them complete assignments.

#10 Wikis

I had the privilege of presenting at the last TIES conference. Each presenter had to create a WIKI where we posted our handouts, web links and could discuss our topics with conference attendees. I have created a wiki for the FO media center however I don't have anything posted on it at the moment. I am thinking that I could use this for my Techie Tuesdays or Tech Friendly Friday messages and handouts.

# 9 Online Collaboration Tools

I used Google docs when I worked on a district level collaborative team. We were working on our districts strategic plan and each team member was assigned a task. It was helpful to have the document on Google docs. You could work on the task from anywhere with Internet access. However we did find that several people should not be editing the document at the same time. It would get frustrating having to find your paragraph again and again. When it refreshed it would take you back to the top of the document.

# 8 Share my creations

I added the slide show below and am trying to make the mosaic but it is not working for me at the moment. I have to upload some more pictures to flickr and try again.

# 7 Online Communication Tools

I just used meet-o-matic to schedule our technology committee meeting. We needed to pick a new day for the meeting so this worked great. It was easy to set up, it only took a couple of minutes. I have seen Doodle used in the past and found it a little more confusing however it appears that you can collect a little more information.

Webinars
These are pretty slick. I like being able to email out the links to my staff.