delicious

I think I'm a convert! If you haven't tried delicious, do so. I forget my websites at times, but now I can take a list of my favorites to any computer thanks to delicious. Now this is useful!

Technorati

I can see the use of Techonorati to look for trends and see what everyone is talking about, however I don't see myself using this tool very often. I tried clicking on the books in the popular section and didn't see much that intersted me. Perhaps if I played with this more, I would see more value.

delicious

I like delicious. I created my own account and saved links to Oh What a Geek, blogger, rollyo and all my preschool fingerplay sites that I use. I looked for other people who used my fingerplay sites to see what other sites they liked to use. I'm just wondering how convienent it will be when I switch computers. I know that this is the point, but do I need to put delicious in the links on each computer I use? I'm guessing this will be the case. I can see this as being VERY convenient, as I hate not being able to remember a site.

Rollyo

http://rollyo.com/mmatusz/

I made a rollyo of some favorite sites I use for storytime and fingerplays. It's really neat to be able to search all the sites at once, rather than going to each site individually. This is one of the most useful tools I've seen yet.

Library Thing

I really enjoyed looking at library thing. I liked the fact that I could list books that I want to read to be viewed later, keep a list of what I had read and look at suggestions. I will be turning my library thing profile to private as soon as I know I have credit for entering my books. I find that I'm interested in learning about all these different technologies, but not as interested in using them. So many of them involve talking to strangers online. I'm willing to do this on a professional level, but uninterested in doing this on a personal level.

Image Generators

I made my mosaic on Letter James - http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?mod=ecard-service&r=8&s=9 These are the pumpkins the staff made in our pumpkin contest. This is a fun thing to do, but at this point it takes me so much time, I don't see myself using it in practical situations. I do like to design signs, so maybe I will see a use for this in the future.

RSS Feeds

I found that the sights I go to often didn't have RSS feeds, so I had to stretch myself a bit to find my 10, but in the meantime I learned something about RSS feeds. I found a RSS feed called Librarian Moms, which I think will be fun to follow, and added a few newsfeeds to my list. Overall, this was much easier than I expected. I did use Google Reader rather than Bloglines, and I like not having anymore passwords. Google Reader is very self explanatory.