15 Things to Try This Year

MetronetAugust 2010

Start or improve your blog

Blogger http://www.blogger.com/home

Edublog http://edublogs.org/

Embed photos, videos Tags New templates Add widgets—Twitter feed, blog roll…

Make a Screencast

Screen-cast-o-matic http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ Capture screen for explanations,

demos, teaching

Try the Backchannel

Make distraction into a contribution TodaysMeet

http://todaysmeet.com/ Edmodo

http://www.edmodo.com/

Take a webinar

Minitex http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/

WebJunction/WebJunction Minnesota http://mn.webjunction.org/catalog

Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/webinar

Tech Soup http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/

events

Subscribe to Keep Up

MetroBriefs News & information for Twin Cities

library staff Bi-weekly http://tiny.cc/metrobriefs

Things On a Stick News Web 2.0 tools in monthly newsletter http://tiny.cc/thingsonastick

Find & Use Creative Commons Media

Photos Flickrcc http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ Flickr Advanced Search Google Image Advanced search

Music http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos

Various media http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Make a Book Trailer with Animoto

Animoto http://animoto.com/

Photos, video clips, music automatically put in animated slide show

Collaborate via a wiki

Lesson plans Conference planning Classroom projects Wiki sites

Pbworks.com▪ http://pbworks.com/

Wikispaces▪ http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wetpaint▪ http://www.wetpaint.com/

Share what you find

Share bookmarks Diigo http://www.diigo.com/ Delicious http://delicious.com/

Networks, in box.. Google Reader Share

http://www.google.com/reader

Make a word cloud

Text from papers, web site, spelling words…

Wordle http://www.wordle.net/

Image chef http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosa

ic/

Stay “alert”

Set up a Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts

Topic or journal alert in Gale Educator’s Reference Complete or Ebsco Professional Collection http://elm4you.org/

Try something new in Google

iGoogle Custom Search GoogleDoc Forms Google Voice Google Sites Google Labs

Join WebJunction Minnesota

Free online classes Groups Share documents Find “friends”

http://mn.webjunction.org

Branch out from IE

Install Firefox Explore Add Ons

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Easy YouTube Downloader Colorful Tabs Ad Blocker Delicious/Diigo buttons Download status bar ….. https://www.mozilla.com

Store & Share in the Cloud

Documents Dropio http://drop.io/ GoogleDocs http://docs.google.com

Photos Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Picasa Web http://picasaweb.google.com