Cool Tools for Library 2.0
By SJSU SLIS Libr 246 Students
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Podcast Description
Learn about Web 2.0 tools and their use in educational settings. Presented by graduate students in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.
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Cool Tools Episode 60 Podcast: Shelfari | Shelfari is an online social cataloging site that allows users to build a virtual bookshelf. They can rate, review, tag and discuss books with online friends. Users can join groups and discuss topics with other users of the Shelfari website. The site can | 11/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoCool Tools Episode 59 Screencast: Google Sites | Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of information in one place -- including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and tex | 5/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 59 Podcast: GoogleSites | Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of information in one place -- including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and tex | 5/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoCool Tools Episode 57 Screencast: SlideShare | SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With SlideShare, you can upload your Power Point presentations to share privately or to publish to the entire SlideShare community. You can use SlideShare to find presentations that in | 5/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 57 Podcast: SlideShare | SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With SlideShare, you can upload your Power Point presentations to share privately or to publish to the entire SlideShare community. You can use SlideShare to find presentations that in | 5/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 56 Podcast: Meebo | Meebo is a free, web-based, instant messenger. It makes it possible to aggregate all of your IM buddy lists into one instant messenger, making it possible to talk to all of your friends through one single IM service. Plus, it is also a great tool for libr | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 55 Podcast: Google Calendar | Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso- | 4/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoCool Tools Episode 54 Screencast: Rollyo | This screencast demonstrates how easy it is to use Rollyo to create a custom search engine, access your dashboard to search other users’ search engines, customize these search engines to make them your own, and finally learn how to create a searchroll b | 4/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoCool Tools Episode 54 Podcast: Rollyo | Rollyo is a web tool that allows you to create your own custom search engine to add to your browser, webpage, blog or to use on your Rollyo homepage. With Rollyo, you create your search engine in just a few easy steps, using only websites that you select. | 4/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 53 Podcast: Brainify | Brainify is a social bookmarking tool intended for students and faculty at colleges and universities. Brainify users bookmark web sites relevant to college courses and academic subject areas and (ideally) share those bookmarks by forming and joining cours | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoCool Tools Episode 53 Screencast: Brainify | Brainify is a social bookmarking tool intended for students and faculty at colleges and universities. Brainify users bookmark web sites relevant to college courses and academic subject areas and (ideally) share those bookmarks by forming and joining cours | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 52 Podcast: Vimeo | Vimeo, an anagram for 'movie', is a video hosting and sharing site that allows users to upload 500mb of videos per week. What sets Vimeo apart from other video hosting sites, namely YouTube, is that it stores a copy of the original file, and when enabled, | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoCool Tools Episode 52 Screencast: Vimeo | This screencast will demonstrate the features of the video hosting and sharing site Vimeo. Included are tips on uploading videos, marking and subscribing to 'likes' and examining how libraries are utilizing this resource. View the Screencast (5:59) | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoCool Tools Episode 51 Screencast: Evernote | This screencast demonstrates how to save snippets of a webpage or a whole webpage to an Evernote notebook, how to search for notes (including a demonstration of the search within image function), and how Evernote can tag notes made on a mobile phone geogr | 4/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 51 Podcast: Evernote | Evernote is a note saving tool that functions on the web, on your desktop, or on your mobile phone. This podcast describes the basic save and search features of Evernote and includes some ideas for organization or library use. Listen to the Podcast (3:57) | 4/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoCool Tools Episode 50 Screencast: Last.FM | Last.FM is a social music service that tracks what you listen to, learns what you like, connects you to other users, and recommends songs from a vast array of "scrobbled" music. This screencast is an overview of the Last.FM profile page, where the user ca | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 50 Podcast: Last.FM | Last.FM is a social music service that tracks what you listen to, learns what you like, connects you to other users, and recommends songs from a vast array of "scrobbled" music. This podcast is an introduction to the features and functionalities of the La | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoCool Tools Episode 49 Screencast: Livemocha | Livemocha is an interactive language instruction website. This screencast will take you through the Livemocha learning interface. You’ll hear how to sign up and see a member’s home page. Then we’ll look at a couple of the interactive lessons. Finall | 4/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 49 Podcast: Livemocha | This podcast discusses how knowledge of a foreign language is important for librarians, and how Livemocha can help. Livemocha is a fun and interactive way to learn a new language using in-depth instruction, conversational tools and exercises with the help | 4/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoCool Tools Episode 48 Screencast: LucidChart | LucidChart allows users to easily create flowcharts and organization charts online. This screencast will demonstrate three main capabilities: creating and editing a chart, outputting charts, and sharing documents. The ease of use for this tool will be dem | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cool Tools Episode 48 Podcast: LucidChart | LucidChart is a free web based application that produces quality flowcharts and organization charts. The application allows documents to be created, edited, and stored online. This podcast will discuss the main features of LucidChart such as the editing t | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoCool Tools Episode 47 Screencast: 43Things | 43Things is a social network for goal making and achieving. This tutorial will give a simple step-by-step demonstration of the basic features of creating a list of goals, entries for your goals, and cheering at 43Things. Visit www.43things.com for more in | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 22 Episodes |
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