Born in 1984

There are many Operating Systems Apple, Windows, Linux and there are many browsers Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera. But lately, it doesn’t matter because of the online tools that educators, executives, and learners call Web 2.0 can operate with any computer and any browser.

Of course, some Web 2.0 tools work better with certain computers. And some browsers and network connection speeds make your computer sssslllloooooowwwww or stops your computer while using certain Web 2.0 tools The only way to find out what works for you and your hardware is…you need to keep signing up for new tools, trying them out, and share them with others!

My inspirations on all things education and technology:

Michael Wesch

Alan November

Common Craft Show

TED

Where I put YouTube videos that inspire me or that I’ve created:

My EduTechJapan Infinite Playlist.

Library things Sakura Medal Description, LibraryThing, blog, Voicethread

My things Professional Learning Networks + Ning

Yokohama International School things homepage, The Learning Hub, Google Apps, wiki, YouTube, Vimeo, Livestream, Flickr, Voicethread, Student Tech Team, Educational Technology Help Desk

Fun & Easy things to get you started on Library 2.0

Animoto for Education
Yokohama International School
Grade 2 IB Primary Years Programme
“Technology Can Connect People” Unit of Inquiry

Wordle

Use a Flip Camera & Upload to Vimeo

Great education videos on 100 Best YouTube Videos For Teachers, TeacherTube, Edublogs Videos, Nibipedia, Edutopia, TED.

Blogging platforms I like:
Blogger Easy, just use your Google/Gmail Account
Edublogs Intermediate, need to sign up & great for teachers and students to use
Wordpress Advanced, it’s a great platform & fully customizable

If you don’t want to blog why don’t you glog?

Suggested library-related websites via my delicious tags libraryblogs, booklists, uwlibrarycert, literacy

Guests and their online presence Marcoux, Gustafson, Younker, Leaf, Kilcup, Parsons

To Tie Everything Together…

Here’s a screen shot of but one site that shows a sliver of the tools available online:

Each icon represents a social networking site. And there’s even more! There’s just way too much out there for me to catch up. So I don’t. I just try out ‘things’ that come by way, put it into categories of ‘maybe use’ or ‘rarely use’, and always share it with someone else. And I may never go back to that site until I delete my account and/or unsubscribe to marketing emails, and that’s okay because there’s going to be a whole lot more that I discover tomorrow. The best I can do with information coming at me is I don’t try to fight it, but I hesitate to embrace it, and then sometimes (now and then) I find a real gem of an online tool and use it frequently.