Well with the last online class I signed up for Google reader which I didn't like at all. Not exactly sure why, maybe it was how things looked on the screen looking at it again today, I still don't like it very much.
So I signed in to igoogle which is lovely. I like having the option of moving, adding, deleting whatever I wish. Having my gmail on the screen along with the weather, google maps, a librarian news feed as well as any blog I also wanted to follow. The lovely calming green tea house theme also makes me happy at this crazy time. I found a list making app... oh how I love lists and this fits right in! As nice as my stickie notes that go on my computer screen!
Not to mention the children's book pick of the day. The list could be never ending! I Could see having my personal igoogle at home to enjoy and my professional one here at work! Very cool.
As far as how it could be used for school libraries. I would love to see our district be able to have the ability to have the feed on our library pages linking to new books added to the system or if a special event was coming up say an author visit... information the parents might need to know like "get your book orders in by..." to make sure the order arrives be the author....
I also took at look at the cool tools netvibe site. That is awesome as well. I love that there are tabs up at the top to keep you organized (us by district/place) and having all the blogs listed to keep up on when people post next. I like the look of netvibe and the readability as well. I may use this site for home use, but maybe someone has already created one place for librarian to get ideas and keep them at the ready so I wouldn't have to create it from scratch.
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Wonderful to hear that iGoogle was a hit! And love that the tea house theme helps you relax a bit. :)
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