1. 15 Things to Try This Year Metronet August 2010

2. Start or improve your blog Blogger http://www.blogger.com/home Edublog http://edublogs.org/ Embed photos, videos Tags New templates Add widgets—Twitter feed, blog roll…

3. Make a Screencast Screen-cast-o-matic http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ Capture screen for explanations, demos, teaching

4. Try the Backchannel Make distraction into a contribution TodaysMeet http://todaysmeet.com/ Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/

5. Take a webinar Minitex http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/ WebJunction/WebJunction Minnesota http://mn.webjunction.org/catalog Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/webinar Tech Soup http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/events

6. Subscribe to Keep Up MetroBriefs News & information for Twin Cities library staff Bi-weekly http://tiny.cc/metrobriefs Things On a Stick News Web 2.0 tools in monthly newsletter http://tiny.cc/thingsonastick

7. Find & Use Creative Commons Media Photos Flickrcchttp://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ Flickr Advanced Search Google Image Advanced search Music http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos Various media http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

8. Make a Book Trailer with Animoto Animoto http://animoto.com/ Photos, video clips, music automatically put in animated slide show

9. Collaborate via a wiki Lesson plans Conference planning Classroom projects Wiki sites Pbworks.com http://pbworks.com/ Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/ Wetpaint http://www.wetpaint.com/

10. Share what you find Share bookmarks Diigohttp://www.diigo.com/ Delicious http://delicious.com/ Networks, in box.. Google Reader Share http://www.google.com/reader

11. Make a word cloud Text from papers, web site, spelling words… Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ Image chef http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/

12. Stay “alert” Set up a Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts Topic or journal alert in Gale Educator’s Reference Complete or Ebsco Professional Collection http://elm4you.org/

13. Try something new in Google iGoogle Custom Search GoogleDoc Forms Google Voice Google Sites Google Labs

14. Join WebJunction Minnesota Free online classes Groups Share documents Find “friends” http://mn.webjunction.org

15. Branch out from IE Install Firefox Explore Add Ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Easy YouTube Downloader Colorful Tabs Ad Blocker Delicious/Diigo buttons Download status bar ….. https://www.mozilla.com

16. Store & Share in the Cloud Documents Dropiohttp://drop.io/ GoogleDocs http://docs.google.com Photos Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/ Picasa Web http://picasaweb.google.com