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On Jumping into the Twitterverse (or, Why this explanation deserves more than 140 characters)
Have mobile device, will travel
Love Wordle? Try Tagxedo!
Making colorful tag clouds with Wordle can be so much fun (www.wordle.net), but would you like to shape that tag cloud for a little more creativity? If so, try www.tagxedo.com to put your favorite speech, poem, vocabulary list, or any other group of words into a unique shape.
Google Bloom’s Taxonomy
Are you looking for ways to help your library users increase their digital literacy skills? Check out Kathy Schrock's visual organizer of Google applications and how they interface with Bloom's Taxonomy http://kathyschrock.net/googleblooms/.
My new favorite tool
Recently, I've been finding out how to use Prezi - teaching it to students in various classes, using at SWILA last week, and also at ILA. I like this interactive whiteboard for the flexibility to embed images, video, audio, as well as text. I like to watch audience members' eyes as they see the whiteboard flying around, zooming