Wows of week

Here are my findings for the week

Jumpcut -- another photo/video tool
Free Play Music -- free broadcast music
Free Sounds -- Search the web for sounds
AirSet - organize your life!

Creative Commons - copyright for digital material

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del.icio.us

I have been using del.icio.us for some time now. I finally decided to introduce it to my students and one of their assignments will be to create an account and start adding web sites that they think will be helpful to them as a teacher. They are also going to submit at least one web site to a class delicious account that I have created. We will see how it goes.

In the NU Web 2.0 wiki I asked if you would share your delicious name as there may be web sites that we want to share with each other. It is easy to do. When adding tags to an entry just add the tag "for: " and add the person's delicious name (no quotes needed). We can also join each others network so we can easily see what sites we have added. And as Christa mentioned you can keep entries private -- just click in the "do not share" box.

I like the new design for del.icio.us. I think that navigation is easier.

Welcome to Heather

Heather is now part of our exclusive NU-Web 2.0 group! I really don't mean exclusive -exclusive, only exclusive in that we were the ones to choose to get on the Web 2.0 learning rabbit trail (see Gina's blog).

Welcome Heather!

Discoveries this week -

Two new search engines:
searchme.com Check it out by searching for your name in quotes
Cuil claims to be "bigger, faster, and better" than Google's search engine - indexing 120 billion pages, 40 billion more than Google. See article


Great list of Web 2.0 tools can be found at Go2Web20
List of Webware 2008 Winners

15 Useful Widgets and Scripts for Blogger

Class Timer
Animoto - Create a movie trailer with your pictures Time with the Zepeda's

Play Week

Some sites to check out next week

Cool Text Graphics Generators Generator Blog - "Blog about software that creates software" FD's Flickr Toys - "Producers of fine toys and amusements for your digital photographs"

Flickr Mashups- Spell with Flickr -Trading Card Maker - Flickr Sukoko Also see list at Flickr Tools and Flickr Bits

del.icio.us

Be sure to check out Worlde next week!

RSS Feeds

I have used Bloglines for a number of years and just recently switched to Google Reader. I think that RSS Readers are great, but my problem is that I forget to look at my feeds. So by the time I think of it I have hundreds of posts to look at and then I get discouraged and don't.

What is the solution? I need to select one or two blogs that I want to keep up with and ditch the rest. I can only take in so much information.... what will the two blogs be? Still working on that.

One great use of Google Reader is that I have created a feed to the blogs of my students. Instead of going to each one of their blogs and trying to find what's new -- I can go to my reader and the new posts are listed for me. This has tremendous use in Education.

I went through the short tutorial by Solinet called "Feed Me". I learned that you can have feeds sent to your cell phone -- not surprising, but really do I want my feeds to follow me every where I go?

Blogs I plan to focus on: What I Learned Today & Information Wants to be Free. I meet the authors of both of these blogs at ACL.