Monthly Archives: February 2007

My Friend Flickr

My Friend Flickr is an article from Edutopia about using Flickr in a school setting. The ideas presented relate to school and public library use of as well. What I like most are the good tips about exploiting Flickr’s fairly rich privacy options to customize how walled you might want the garden to be. [...]

better than a bookmark

I don’t think I’ll ever look at a bookmark suggesting book titles in the same way again! Check out this video from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library.
This video injects the humans and humanity of the library into the library’s marketing. So much more than a static list of titles could ever do. [...]

yahoo pipes

Yahoo! pipes is one of the most interesting things I’ve seen lately. This new tool lets non-programmers create web mashups in a sandbox like environment. The tech barrier to making mashups is being lowered, just like weblogs pretty much smashed the barrier to putting content on the web.
The interface consists of easy to [...]