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25 Tools: a Toolbox for Learning Professionals (slideshare presentation)

lindybr1 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:41:59 +0000

Joyce Valencia’s most recent post on retooling oneself got a lot of link love on twitter today. She provided many wonderful resources for educators and information professionals, but one particular resource I enjoyed was a presentation by Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies:

25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009

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Twitoria: find out who hasn't tweeted in awhile

lindybr1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:25:48 +0000

If you’re looking for a quick way to find out which of your friends hasn’t tweeted in awhile, give Twitoria a try.

In my exuberance to learn as much as possible (as a rookie info professional would do), I have been following a lot of folks, especially libraries. I have been wanting to cut my twitter follower numbers down, so I gave Twitoria a try. I found over 35 folks that haven’t tweeted in over a month. I think I’ll be giving a few of those folks the boot…

Favethumbs – Visual Del.icio.us bookmarks

lindybr1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:25:53 +0000

Have a delicious account, and can’t remember the website you want or the tag? Do you need to see a picture of it to jog your memory? Or, do you just like to see things rather than read plain-ole text? For you visual folks out there who also happen to have a delicious account – try out Favthumbs! I am really diggin’ the layout – I can see my bookmarks in grid format or I can choose a “carousel” version (which reminds me of my iTunes album layout). One minor problem is that there isn’t a search function like the delicous site has. One must click on the zillion tags you have and look at what come up. However, overall — it sure makes my bookmarks look so pretty!

Update 8/2/09: R.I.P. Favthumbs. Looks like favthumbs is no more! Clicking on the favthumbs link will kick you to “PicClick, the visual Ebay Shopping Experience.”

Trying out Sprout

lindybr1 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:38:10 +0000

I was trying out Sprout today. Now this is way, way, way cool! Sprout “is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more… Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.” After about 15 minutes of playing around, I created a little twitter widget, added a lil’ music and embedded it to my blog here. It’s nothing fancy at the moment, but what’s especially cool about Sprout is I can log back in, make changes, save the update and it will automatically update the widget below with the changes. I did read on their website that starting sometime soon – in fact, they said mid-February – they will start requiring paid subscriptions for use.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.783675&w=425&h=350&fv=] <–No longer working, boo hoo!

Music Credits: August (Reggae Rework) ft. Calendargirl from CCmixter user el-B

update 12/16/09: as you can see, sprout is no longer working…my stuff has vanished. I tried logging into my old account and I was redirected to a site requiring me to resubscribe—for a price ($19.99/month was the cheapest option).