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You know you can be better. We all can. It's the reason productivity and personal development has made such a surge in recent years. The time of freelancers, writers, designers and other web workers has exploded, and the need for tools and methods to make them more productive has aligned naturally with that explosion.

Tools for learning as voted on in March 2008 (update due soon.) Many are tools we are learning in IST 611. Some are unfamiliar.

Tools to Use With Flickr

This is a great article about some tools I hadn't heard of before.

Great summary of Web 2.0 teaching tools

Good summary of various Skype recording tools

It's an addictive little habit, that Twitter. But what if there were ways for you to still keep your ugly tweeting habit while staying productive at the same time? Since I can't fully support the total indulgence in the tool that has the tech-world (and beyond) glued to their favorite Twitter client, I thought I would share a few very useful ways to make the service much more productive while you're living inside of it.

scroll down for a wide array of tools

Another good summary of Skype recording tools

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.

Free animation tool

Mashup tool for storytelling

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.

Great Web 2.0 tool has improved for education.

"this is what happens when the librarian and the tech guy are married" - links to fun educational tools arranged by grade level and subject

Social networking tool that provides "feedback." RateMyTeachers.com enables parents and students to rate high school teachers on easiness, helpfulness and clarity.