What an awesome list of cool sites. It took me a while to post because I was spending a lot of time exploring. There were a few sites I was familiar with, some from my own experience, some from this class. There were quite a few I don't know that I'd ever use but a least I'll know where to find them if some one's need should arrive. I can't wait to share IM Cooked, iFoods, and Recipe Key with my FCS department. Our new department head loves when I find her cool tools on the web. I have a couple English teachers that will really go for One Sentence.
My favorite is StumbeUpon. A couple of students hooked me up with StumbleUpon last spring and I really enjoyed it but it disappeared from my toolbar when our iMacs were re-imaged.
StumbleUpon is a cool tool that helps you "stumble upon" some really interesting sites that you might never come across. The key is to upload StumbleUpon's toolbar to either IE or Firefox (it's not for Safari). Once you've uploaded, you're asked what types of subjects you are interested in. I immediately chose books and library resources plus some others. If you haven't already signed up, sign up then, and start stumbling. Once you click the SU button, a website pertaining to one of your chosen topics pops up. You either click on "like it" or "don't like it". If you like it, it will be saved and will go on to the next. If you only want to look at one certain subject at a time, you can do that too. I love this site when I want to find something fresh and interesting for my teachers or students but I'm not sure exactly what I want.
I also checked out Ning. I had a hard time with this part of the assignment because I did a search for "library", looked at everything that came up and got really overwhelmed. I would find a decent looking ning and then realize that no one had posted in six months, or there where only five members. I was about to give up when I decided to read other blogs to see what kind of results were out there. Luckily, I clicked on There from Here and read about TeacherLibrarian Ning. I visited and I even joined, which I swore I wasn't going to do, but it just looked too interesting. So a big thanks to Jane!
I also played Travel IQ and loved it so much, I put it on my library's new web page.
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