Here are the tools and links we worked on and talked about in our Information Literacy workshop today.

Links to resources from first presentation:

• http://urltea.com/2nux

Links to Workshop Outline done in Google Notebook:

• http://urltea.com/2qmx

Dueling Tools
This is a sharing time for participants to share a tech tool with others. It is time well spent sharing resources others use in the classroom!

• Grand Central by Google – One phone number for ALL your phones and voice mailboxes
• Jott.com – Voice recognition: Call a message in to Jott and Jott will email or text your party.
• Twitter.com – microblogging – find out what your network of friends are doing.
• MLA Citation source – Cite several types of sources such as books, website, etc.
• iGoogle – a dashboard to your online digital life!
• Atomic Learning – Professional development resources for you to learn all types of software applications.
• Net Trekker – Great subscription database for student research.
• Apple Education – Resources on all types of integration ideas.
• McGraw-Hill – Lessons that use technology.
• Quia – the Quintessential Instructional Archive.
• NoodleTools – Research tools for students and teachers.
• TrackStar – Create collections of annotated websites for your students.
• Jing Project – Capture your computer screen to share with others.

Others that we talked about during the day:

• Slacker.com – Create your own radio stations.
• urltea.com – shorten long URL’s
• tinyurl.com – another site to shorten long URL’s
• Online Stopwatch – a stopwatch that counts up or down and has a buzzer.
• Zamzar.com – convert YouTube (and others) movies to files you can download to your hard drive.
• Google Notebook in the sidebar