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Curriculink is a web tool created by Otsego Northern Catskills BOCES School Library System. If you are not a member of this BOCES you can still access the site. The only area you cannnot access is the section for lesson plans. This tab leads to lesson plans written by librarians in this BOCES, you can also create lesson plans in the templates provided. The focus of the site is develop library awarness skills, and lifelong reading skills.

Useful links for creating a Web 2.0 learning environment.

This page was created by a retired school librarian. It collects examples of Web 2.0 resources being used in libraries.

This website is a great collection of links to Web 2.0 tools that have been used in libraries.

Multiverse client software helps users to create a network of other worlds; links to Hollywood may lead to movie tie-ins; Ed Castronova to develop the education MMO "Arden"

Free creative web2.0 tool for creating comic strips

With BubbleShare you can upload and save your photos and create slideshows in the same space.

One of the benefits of creating an open, simple, highly adaptable service like Twitter is the fact that once it takes off, people will try to do a lot of interesting things with it.

In my previous post, Personal Branding 101, we discussed the importance of branding in this web 2.0 world, as well as how to discover and create your brand. In Personal Branding 102 we'll discuss how you'll communicate your personal brand, using social media tools and proven marketing tactics, and then how to sustain your future growth by performing brand maintenance.

Appliance manufacturer Electrolux is heating things up this Valentine's Day - in a virtual oven that is. The brand is using their Facebook application to create a little buzz and do some good in return.

What does the future hold for virtual learning environments? The article suggests a positive venue for developing, creating, collaborating, and meeting. The author suggests a submersive learning experience in technology will facilitate a deeper understanding.

Create your own comic strips. Option for school accounts.

There are many examples of rubrics on the site for different projects plus a tool to create your own rubric.

Takes screen shot of a web page, including the links on that page, that can then be embedded on a web page. Good tool for creating more visual pathfinders/libguides, for example.

Just learned about this tool via some of Buffy Hamilton's work.

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Google Noticeboard. It's a Firefox add-on can be used to create a message - including a voice recording and some text - which you can then send to other members, even if the other members doesn't installed Noticeboard you can still as audio as OGG email attachment.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, previously General Image Manipulation Program) is a free software, raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It is often used as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone.

The Google Docs developers just added "insert drawing" capability. Drawing can be created easily with pre-determined shapes, colors, text, etc..

In the past few years personal branding has been discussed exhaustively throughout the Net. The difference between today and over ten years ago when it was first mentioned by Tom Peters, is the rise of social technologies that have made branding not only more personal, but within reach.

I think it is fascinating that this group is entering the educational arena.

Screencasting basics and more!

Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Brittanica trying to find the right measure of participation