Thanks to everyone for attending the last two workshops at the Capital Region BOCES School Library System. As promised, here are the slides from today’s Search Update and the Google Earth workshop a few weeks ago. Looking forward to seeing you all at the next session on Google Sites & Docs. Do let me know [...]
A colleague emailed today asking how to get a nice print calendar out of Google Calendar. I have to confess, I’d never clicked on the little PRINT button on top of my calendar to see what the options are. After fiddling with all the options, I think the AGENDA format prints out with the most [...]
Google Goggles uses pictures to search the web. This conjures visions of magic glasses that capture the world around you and flash back info right through the magic glasses. Anyone remember the tv show Romper Room? I really, truly believed that the magic mirror was real. Well Google Goggles is indeed real and it’s kind [...]
(short screencast) I suspect I’m starting to sound like a Google employee, but I’m just testing out lots of Google stuff for a bunch of workshops coming up. This short screencast shows the new real time search feature in action. For hot topics with timely content, you may see a scrolling news feed of updates [...]
(larger photo) Google Browser Size is a handy new tool that helps you visualize what portion of your website viewers can see on various browser screen sizes. Looks like 98% of viewers can see my first headline, but none of the text of that post. 90% of viewers can see the lovely photo of Sara [...]
I discovered Google’s Fusion Tables tool while preparing for a workshop on Google Tools for Reference Staff at the CT Library Consortium’s Reference Roundtable meeting last week. I’m still exploring all the features! Fusion Tables is a Google Labs project that lets you work with sets of data uploaded from Google Docs spreadsheets or other [...]
Come to Internet Librarian & Internet@Schools West in October 2010 and learn more about WordPress for Libraries!
I'll be presenting a WordPress Workshop with Kyle Jones. And a session on WordPress for Schools with Buffy Hamilton and Kyle Jones
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