Week 8, Thing 18

Online productivity tools like Zoho Writer or Google Docs seem to work like Office Tools as far as what type of files you can create--slide shows, documents, spread sheets. Beyond that, there are so many other options that appear to be available--chatting, collaboration, group commenting. Alas, there is no online help on Zoho. Maybe my daughter can help me figure out some of the ins and outs of online productivity tools.

Week 6 Thing 13, 14, and 15

Del.icio.us--what a wonderful site. It allows me to access all of my bookmarks from whatever computer I'm at. It lets me tag and organize all of the sites so they're more than a never ending list of sites (Whogoes back and looks at all of those sites? Sometimes I look at things I've bookmarked and say "What was I thinking?") They're organized and accessible. Of course, I've spent most of the evening surfing for things to save and tag. Web 2.0, Library 2.0, books I want to read, movies to see, should I buy a Kindle. . . It's so easy to surf away from the task at hand.

Technorati--the concept of tagging is wonderful. This site, though, not so much.

There seems to be a wealth of sites with information about how to integrate Web 2.0 into services for patrons. Just looking at the Library 2.0 tag in Del.icio.us provides an avalanche of information about how to learn and use the different Live Web tools. To ignore all of the wonderful instruments that our students see as commonplace keeps us from making school and education relevant, and could make the future of libraries "fraught with peril."