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I looked at Second Life. It was a neat program that had a number of designs. I had a hard time moving around, the directions seem easy, the introduction. It seems easy, if you know exactly what you are doing. The orientation seemed very long and very time consuming. I do have an account on Second Life and I will spend more time on it, when I can find time. It seems like a program like Second Life will be a program that would be useful to students, but I feel that someone has to put some requirements or specifications on the site to block certain things from going on. There is some adult content that would need to be monitored and addressed.

I think games are nice, but would be better suited for a public library, then a school library. Most school media centers don't allow games and our policy is not to let students play games during the school day. This is a policy that is mostly likely in most schools, but I also think that the servers would be clogged also.

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I recently put the Research Project Calculator on the Library Website. I have shown a few teachers how to use it and have shown some students how to use it. I think that this is a great site that will get more use once students and people become more aware of the site and its uses. I am planning on showing this site to my students in the future. There are a great number of uses for this site. I think that the Assignment Calculator will be a great help to students doing research papers. and it will help them focus on the items that they need to accompolish in a certain amount of time.

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Library Thing was very fun. It was a nice tool to use and had many features that were interesting. I think that If I had time on my hands, that I would try to find all of the books in my personal collection and add it to the site that I created, but I will need to find time to do that. It took me a while to figure out how to use it, but after I played with it a while, it seems to be very easy to do and user friendly. It would be great if all of the schools and everyone would put their collections on this site.

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I took a session at the Fall conference on I google and started a page that I need to get back to and update. I think that there are many options on I google and I need to explore more. I did look at the Onlince Calendars, which are very nice and user friendly, but they are not for me.. I know that If I started one that I would not keep it up, I like the stickees better, but I will give the online calendars a try. I did like backpack that was a very nice site with a lot of features that I could use , If I take the time to organize my organizing. It will take some time to get use to using these tools, but I can see good uses for them.

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I looked at the four sites in this thing. Newsvine was the one that I liked the best, because it was easier for me to read and to navigate, and the national news was very abundant. There are features that I found that were easy to use and some that I need to have more time to investigate.

I did like that you can post them to other sites, this was a very interesting feature that I hope that more sites will use. I think that sharing these sites will be come more and more in the feature, as time and technology change.

Digg, Reddit and Mixx had some very good things, and had some very useful tools, but I was happier with Newsvine. I did like that they are being updated all of the time, that is a very good feature, so the information is very current and accurate.

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I think the delicious and tagging are easy to do. The Delicious program is a very easy program to use. I have been putting a number of items in my delicious account. I think that it is a easy way to put all kinds of websites in one sport. To check them on a daily basis will be interesting and can be time consuming. I think that making tags was easy, and putting things together will help save time in the long run. Delicious is a very easy program to navigate and it is fun to put things together.


I think that putting library things together will be easy using delicious. Libraries will need to have accounts like this set up to make their life easier.

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Wikis seem to be easy to work with. Wikipedia is one of the fastest growing encyclopedias and one of the fastest places to find information. It seems like there are wikis on a lot of subjects. I am starting to search more on wikipedia and wikis than any other programs out there, because of the vast amount of information that is there.

It would be fun just to take some part of a day and just look and wikis and even try to make one.