‘Cool Tools’ Archive

iPhone App Overload? Never! June 25, 2009 No Comments

I love my beautiful iPhone and the ten million apps and games I have on it. Well, there’s about 10 apps and the rest are games. Buckingham Palace Mysteries, Bookworm, Yard Sale, bloons, Myst (which I still hate after these many years of trying to complete that incomprehensible *%#&)….love the games. And I love the [...]

Scribd–what it is and why I don’t care about it right now April 23, 2009 No Comments

Ok, its a self-publishing archive. I get it. They call it “democratized publishing.” I get that. Even our President has a Scribd page with 100 friends. We can use it to embed documents into websites. Like that. Check! Please do not say that this is the future of the book or I will totally lose [...]

Masks and Layers, I own you. April 6, 2009 No Comments

In this installment of I’m Learning Photoshop, I took on the Working with Masks and Layers chapter from PS CS4 Classroom in a Book. Ok, masks are not easy. This lesson took me two hours. Masks are like taping off things you want to retain like taping off the trim when you paint a room. [...]

I heart voki.com August 26, 2008 No Comments

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Widgets August 16, 2008 No Comments

So, there are widgets and there are Widgets. http://www.widgetbox.com

Like gold to airy thinness beat… July 2, 2008 No Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } wordle, originally uploaded by notmarian. This is one of my most beloved poems in cloud form.  Can you guess what it is? Wordle is my new favorite toy and has my [...]

Google Book Search Gadget for you. February 17, 2008 No Comments

Ok, so librarians get all twittery when they encounter masses of full text. Myself included.  It doesn’t matter what kind of full text either: journal articles, research reports, newspaper articles and, of course, books.  Though we love the fact that google is cranking out the e-books as fast as we can catalog them…there’s a big [...]

Imagination Cubed February 10, 2008 No Comments

Here’s something nifty! This tool, brought to us by our friends at GE, allows the user to make animations using a variety of tools. Students could use this to express themselves or one could sit a child down in front of it for hours of free time. I just used the Stamp and Text tools [...]

Google Docs with Forms–Be still my heart! February 9, 2008 No Comments

Google docs now has a share option where you can select a form. So, you share your spreadsheet, make up your questions or whatever you need people to fill in on the spreadsheet, then all of the responses to your form are recorded on the spreadsheet. Brill!