del.icio.us

• A social bookmarking website that lets one store bookmarks online and thus access the same bookmarks from any computer

• With del.icio.us, you use tags to manage bookmarks (sometime called favorites)

• Explore new things - everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite, so they've already done the work of finding i.

del.icio.us

• Store links to favorite websites and add tags to make them searchable and easy to arrange in groups.

• Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community of users.

• Use unique tags to identify Websites for group projects

http://delicious.com/lawrencegmiller

tinyurl.com

• A free service to make posting long URLs easier

• Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar• Redirection to any page in your site• Hide your affiliate URLs– Only your custom tinyurl.com address will be

visible to your visitors

tinyurl.com

• Turn this URL: – http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-

0/1?type=3&campid=5336224516&toolid=10001&customid=tiny-hp&ext=unicycle&satitle=unicycle

• into this tinyURL: – http://tinyu rl.com/unicycles

http://tinyurl.com/

NISOD WEBINAR SERIES

Service Learning: Taking Education Beyond the Classroom

November 18

This session will feature expert practitioners and policy innovators discussing service learning and taking education beyond the classroom.

For complete details & to reserve your space, visit:

http://tinyurl.com/NISOD11-18

Google Tools

• iGoogle - your personalized Google page. – Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across

the web to your page• Search – what Google is famous for, but there

are many varieties of Google Search, including:– News, Scholar, Videos, Patent Search,

Product Search, Patent Search, Images, Custom Search

Google Tools – Search-related

• Google Chrome - browser built for speed, stability and security

• Desktop – applies Google Search to your PC• Google Health - organize your medical records

online • Earth – global mapping system lets you

explore the world from your computer

Communicate, show & share

• Gmail – online access to searchable E-mail • Docs - create and share your online

documents, presentations, and spreadsheets • Calendar - organize your schedule & share

events • Reader - aggregate your blogs & news feeds• Translate – translate text or view web pages in

other languages

Communicate, show & share

• YouTube - watch, upload and share videos • Talk - IM and call your friends• Blogger – a free and easy way to be online

with a blog

SlideSharehttp://www.slideshare.net

• SlideShare is a online, community-based presentation hosting service

• Allows you to upload presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint or OpenOffice

• Once your presentation is uploaded and converted into Flash, you can embed it in your site or blog as a Flash object

• Uses other aspects of Web 2.0 social networks – invite, groups, comments, etc.

SlideShare Widgets

• Presentation Pack & SlideShare Playlist– These widget will let you display collections

of presentations on your blog or website. • Mini Badges

– Use these badges to provide a link from your blog or website to your SlideShare profile

• Blog Sidebar Widget– Use this widget to embed a feed of

presentations and documents on your blog or website

Wetpaint - Create a Wiki

• Wetpaint's Website allows one a easy way to create free wiki websites.

• You can watch several videos to find out more here.• Groups can create a content-based Website with a

restricted community of users – in other words, a private wiki.

• Wetpaint can take to existing wikis that may be something to join or at least to build from.

• http://www.wetpaint.com/