#12: Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.
I tried the Chaos Kidsearch in Rollyo and typed in Internet safety as a search term. The results list includes a lot of links I recognize from the Internet safety initiatives in my school district. This link shows you what I found in Rollyo: http://rollyo.com/search.html?prevsid=475860&q=internet+safety&sid=475860. Rollyo is a site I plan to suggest to others. I've made a posting about it on my school library Web site. You can read it here.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Week Five, Assignment #11
#11. Explore Web 2.0 Award Winners and then blog about the sites I explored.
I visited yourminis, a widget site. I played with the BMI (body mass index) calculator, but I can't imagine wanting to place this on my blog.
While at yourminis I also looked at the Weather Channel widget. I have this on my computer's desktop, but I've noticed that I get a different temperature reading on it than my husband gets on his Weather Channel temperature gauge. The night we were checking for frost temperatures, my husband's listing was 29 degrees as a current temperature while my Weather Channel widget indicated it was 42 degrees. Consequently, I don't place a lot of stock in either of them being right.
I visited yourminis, a widget site. I played with the BMI (body mass index) calculator, but I can't imagine wanting to place this on my blog.
While at yourminis I also looked at the Weather Channel widget. I have this on my computer's desktop, but I've noticed that I get a different temperature reading on it than my husband gets on his Weather Channel temperature gauge. The night we were checking for frost temperatures, my husband's listing was 29 degrees as a current temperature while my Weather Channel widget indicated it was 42 degrees. Consequently, I don't place a lot of stock in either of them being right.
Week Five, Assignment #10
#10. Play around with an online image generator.
I made this Word Cloud at http://www.wordle.net/:
This is cool. I'd been trying to find a word cloud generator for the past several days, and I hadn't come across one that I liked until I found this one. I could have typed in the specific words I wanted, but I chose to have the image generate itself based on what was on my Library Threads blogsite. I did check the links it shows, to make sure there was nothing I'd be embarrassed to have show up if someone typed in the addresses.
I made this campaign button on http://www.imagechef.com/:
This turned out to be a very satisfactory image creator, too.
Here's a cute library card I made at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php for our school mascot:
I made this Word Cloud at http://www.wordle.net/:
This is cool. I'd been trying to find a word cloud generator for the past several days, and I hadn't come across one that I liked until I found this one. I could have typed in the specific words I wanted, but I chose to have the image generate itself based on what was on my Library Threads blogsite. I did check the links it shows, to make sure there was nothing I'd be embarrassed to have show up if someone typed in the addresses.
I made this campaign button on http://www.imagechef.com/:
This turned out to be a very satisfactory image creator, too.
Here's a cute library card I made at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php for our school mascot:
When I posted it to this blog, the default placement was at the top of the posting. I had to click on the "Edit Html" tab and cut the code from the top of the posting and relocate it where I wanted it.
Week Four, Assignment #9
#9. Locate a few useful library blogs or newsfeeds.
View my Blogroll and you'll see that I've found some good school library blogs. I've also subscribed to the American Libraries Direct weekly newsfeed. Just for fun, I added my own blog to my list:
View my Blogroll and you'll see that I've found some good school library blogs. I've also subscribed to the American Libraries Direct weekly newsfeed. Just for fun, I added my own blog to my list:
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