Technology Thursday

When I was a librarian, I used to have Technology Tuesday in my library about once a month. Well, that was a long time ago, but it came back to me today for this entry so I changed it up a bit! Honestly, I just love technology and miss being a librarian because I got to teach folks about the latest and greatest. But since I am retired, I have a lot of technology freedom. I mean I can twitter whenever I want, I can facebook as often as I want, I 've got this cool blog and wait for it.... I can visit any website without getting doinked!!!!! So for Technology Thursday, I hope you can visit some of these websites. My friend, Charlie, told us about a cool website at a meeting on Saturday ( yes, I still have meetings to go to). It is surfaquarium.com. It is written by an IT guy she knows and it is very good. But I love http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ This is a comic maker. I just had a ton of library research ideas for this one. You could make a storyboard foldable with http://www.pocketmod.com/ using research from the library and then make a comic! For my library student readers, I recommend http://www.internettutorials.net/. Need a list of search engines go to that website. Need a list of metasearch engines to really show the power of searching use that website to introduce the concept to your students! Lastly, I just love Doug Johnson, a past VEMA keynote speaker, he has a great website and a very interesting blog --http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/ Check it out.