Saturday, January 29, 2011

Social bookmarking tool - Diigo

Diigo is a social bookmarking tool which combines notes, tagging, sharing and interactions. http://www.diigo.com

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Adobe digital school collection

Create professional e-portfolios, podcasts, digital stories and video projects using Adobe digital school collection software. Checkout these tutorials to learn more. http://tv.adobe.com/show/adobe-digital-school-collection/ Enjoy your creative projects.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Use LibraryThing widgets to post your library collections on your blog or website

Take the tour of the LibraryThing.com. You can create online library collections for the books you read or wish to read, and post them on your blog using the LibraryThing widget for others to see.

Learning Commons’ Touch Screen Makes “Finding” Easy

Learning Commons’ Touch Screen Makes “Finding” Easy
Read this interesting news of the use of touch screens to find computers and group study rooms in North Carolina State University Libraries. Check it out on the NSCU Libraries News website.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Do you need free books for holiday reading?

Check out the Mashable/Tech website's article on "Free Kindle Books: A Guide."  Project Gutenberg, Google E-BookStore, Internet Archive, Open Library and ManyBooks.net are some sites recommended to download ebooks to a PC, iPad, Kindle, Android or Sony Reader. LibriVox has free audio books. Happy holiday reading!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Create your own holiday cards! Happy Holidays!

Create your own invitation, holiday or thank you cards using Microsoft Paint.



Happy Holidays! Wish you a wonderful new year 2011!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Google Docs - Forms for surveys and class assessments

Check out the Google Docs - Forms to create surveys and class assessments. You can create a summary of the responses from the survey in a graph format by using the Forms feature on Google Docs. The Chronicle of Higher Education's Technology section, ProfHacker column has an informational article, "Revisiting Google Docs" written by Heather Whitney.

This sample survey is created on Google Docs.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHJ3WlhHamE1RUswREhwdTBSYUxfQVE6MQ