Tech Tools for Librarians

Valerie Hill / Valibrarian Greggc2008

Tools for a Variety of Purposes❑Collaboration❑Library Services❑Multi-media and Presentations❑Personal Learning

I can't keep up with emerging technology alone! Tools for librarians make sharing easier than ever.

Tools for Collaboration

Trend is Global Collaboration and Personal User Connection

• Convenience trumps Quality

• Sharing trumps Privacy

“Be where the users are.” ~Roy Tennant, TLA 2008

Social Networking

Have you signed up for Ning?

BlogsLearn from other librarians through blogging.

Sharing tags

Try wordle.com

Collaborate in Virtual Worlds Real-time collaboration across the globe.

Avatars

• Second Life

• Sitepal

• Whyville

Create your virtual identity for communication in new modes.

Discover the power of the wikiALA Conference Wiki makes finding information simple.

More Collaboration Tools

❑Twitter❑Shared documents (Google docs)❑Flickr and Picasa❑Del.icio.us❑Slideshare❑Drop.io

Tools for Library Services

Unleash the power of Google and more... Bring Google to your library with Google documents, spreadsheets, igoogle and Google custom search engines.

Ethridge Google SearchLimit hits to websites that you

choose!

Get your own Google

“Kids today are plugged in and connected to the world- everywhere but at school. We unplug them when they come in.” ~Alan November, TLA 2008

Library Websites

Dreamweaver orMoodle Schoolweb

Online Databases and Weblinks❑Research Bookmarks❑NetTrekker❑Ikeepbookmarks.com❑Noodlebib and Citation Machine❑Lookybook.com❑Digital collections

More Tools for Library Services❑Interactive boards (Smart,

Promethean)❑CPS (Classroom Performance

System)❑Online virtual worlds (Whyville,

Vivaty, Lively, Second Life)❑Gaming

Tools forMulti-media and Presentations

Online Tools

More Tools for Presentations❑FRAPS (for machinima)❑Zamzar (video file conversion)❑Zoho (online office tools)❑Yousendit (send large files)❑Wink (screen capture)❑Voicethread (image stories)❑Internet Archive (archive AV)

Mashups and repurposing

Provide information from 2 sources combined into content not available at either original source.

Join the Push-Pull

“Information literacy is moving toward a push technology instead of a pull technology.”

~Joyce Valenza, TLA 2008

Tools for Personal Learning

❑de.licio.us❑File organization techniques❑Archival techniques❑Storage and transfer❑RSS❑Blogs❑Attitude!

"We have the power to learn, unlearn and relearn." Charlie Nelms