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Podcast Feast

Jan 3rd, 2012
by pollyalida.
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I’m still a day or two behind – this is for Day 7 of #blog12daysxmas!

This was a busy weekend with more family visiting. And that meant more cooking. And cooking means lots of time to listen to podcasts. I love listening to podcasts while I cook, sometimes it slows me down a bit while I stop chopping & stirring to jot down notes, but it’s wonderful to have so much great company in my kitchen. It often feels a bit strange though when I finish cooking and realize that these folks aren’t really there and ready to eat dinner with me.

This past weekend I got to share my kitchen with Buffy Hamilton and the Bibliotech gang,  Steve Thomas and Dave Lankes (Circulating Ideas), and Maurice Coleman and Jill Hurst-Wahl (T is for Training).

Since some other library folks have shared their lists of favorite podcasts, I’ll share mine too.

  • Tech Chick Tips – Two educators from Texas who cover tons of great resources for all grades and subjects. They also ♥ their iThings (so do I) and share lots of great apps for iThings.
  • T is for Training – Biweekly podcasts about training & teaching in library settings. Maurice Coleman has been hosting this ever-changing feast of topics and participants for 3 years, wow!   Don’t just listen, call in and participate, it’s a fun and friendly crowd.
  • Circulating Ideas – Steve Thomas’ monthly conversation with a innovative leaders in the library field. Lots of great ideas are circulated.
  • Bibliotech – Discusses all things digital technology at our libraries. Hosted by Kayhan B., Erin Anderson and Doug Mirams.

And more! Adventures in Library Instruction,  TWIT – This week in Tech, Hack Education Podcast and of course Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.

There are even more listed on these blog posts. I haven’t had a chance to listen to all of these yet.

 

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Sharing with Evernote public folders

Jan 2nd, 2012
by pollyalida.
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I’m a day or two behind, but I’m catching up – this is for Day 6 of #blog12daysxmas!

Evernote is one of several tools that help keep me organized. And that’s saying a lot. In 1977, I applied to library school after reading the course catalog and thinking I might become an organized person. Didn’t happen! Sure, I can organize my work life, projects, schedules, complicated trips, other people, but not my own little world of notes, papers, ideas, etc. But finally, with Evernote, I almost always know where I can find what I need. Since it synchronizes information with all my computers and other devices, I always have access to the information I need, wherever I am.

Beyond keeping notes, photos, ideas, etc organized, I love being able to selectively share folders full of information.  In Evernote, folders can be totally private, totally public or open only to selected people.   This is handy for sharing information with selected family members, ideas for trips with friends, notes for a project with colleagues, etc.  And one of my favorite uses is sharing recipes with friends. I’ve also found a few twitter friends who are sharing their recipes, and since these folders have unique RSS feeds, I’ve popped those feeds into Google Reader to aggregate all those recipes. Handy!

For students who are already using Evernote to clip and save information from the web, shared folders become an easy way for teachers to keep track of student progress.

I’ll post more about Evernote in the future. In the meantime, go try it.

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Skitch

Dec 30th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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Day 5 of #blog12daysxmas

Last summer Evernote acquired Skitch, a free tool for annotating, editing and sharing images and screenshots. When it became available for the iPad, I finally gave in and upgraded to iOS 5. It’s currently available for Android, iOS and Mac and makes fast work of drawing arrows and shapes on a screenshot. Or adding a caption to a photo.

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ifttt sends my Summify updates to Instapaper

Dec 29th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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Dcoffeeay 4 of #blog12daysxmas and that means it’s already 1/3 over. Maybe this is a challenge I can actually meet?

Yesterday I posted about Summify, a tool for monitoring social media for the  articles and links being shared by people in your social networks.

Today I want to share two more tools,  ifttt  and Instapaper, that help me keep up with reading those articles from Summify and other sources. (more…)

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Summify is good for my blood pressure

Dec 28th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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It’s day 3 of  #blog12daysxmas and I have a confession.  I don’t visit my Google Reader account as often as I would like to. Some days (weeks?) are just so busy & I run out of brain cells.

And then there are the tons of great articles and links flying past in Twitter & Facebook every day too.  Thankfully there some free tools to help deliver just the “best of” what your community is sharing.

Summify is one of those tools and the one I’ve been relying on the most lately. It monitors your Twitter, Facebook & Google Reader accounts and filters out the dreck. It then delivers a limited number of articles. As you select articles to read, Summify learns more about what you like and don’t like. (more…)

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Notes.io: Quick Notetaking Tool

Dec 27th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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And for Day 2 (a day late!) of #blog12daysxmas:

Notes.io

notes.io

Jotting down some quick notes & sharing them couldn’t be easier than with Notes.io.   Just visit the site and start  typing, no login necessary.  When you’re ready to share your notes, click on the “short” button to get a shortened URL that links to your notes page. The short URL

notes.io

It’s easy to share the short URL via Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed.

notes.io

Not meant for long files, there’s presently a limit of 18 KB or about 180 lines of text. It appears that longer files may be possible when they add their account features.

Handy for quickly and easily sharing meeting notes, conference session reports. Very handy for students since it doesn’t require a login.

Notes.io is a web-based application for taking notes. You can take your notes and share with others by providing the shorten url to a friend. Fast: Notes.io is built for speed and performance. You can take notes quickly and browse your archive. Easy: Notes.io doesn’t require installation. Just write and share shorten link! Short: Notes.io’s url just 8 character. You’ll get shorten link of your note when you want to share. (Ex: notes.io/q)

(via: Free Technology for Teachers)

 

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