SUNYLA WGIL

Twellow is also a good place to find twitterers. It is a directory of twitter users...with a browse by category.

Tool for figuring out basic copyright on an item.

can create and join private twitter groups (e.g., students in a class or dept)

Not a search engine, but a computational-knowledge engine.

wiki version of handbook on emerging technologies for learning

flash tutorial on the basics of how Wikipedia works and its pros and cons

Wiki for the WGIL (used to be Library Instruction Committee) of SUNYLA.

library video tutorials - not-College specific, very well done!

interactively highlights parts of an article and discusses what they are.

Project Information Literacy Progress Report | February 2009 | Head and Eisenberg

Create a customized social network with its own domain name and banner art, individual member profile pages, photo and video sharing, multiple sub-topic groups, and discussion forums. Creating a Ning network takes only a couple of minutes. To increase the safety and privacy of your network's users, you can make it visible only to members, and you can opt to approve each would-be member or make membership by invitation only.

Helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites.

customizable and easily assembled slide shows of photos that can be embedded in a blog or a MySpace page, sent out in an RSS feed, and streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.

"Data collected from thousands of students showed that students who were taught informative nonfiction using the Big6 approach with a combination of analytical, creative, and practical activities, outperformed students who were taught two alternative approaches (see materials at: www.yale.edu/pace)."