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"In a digital world, the question is not whether you will leave a mark. The question is, "What kind of mark are you leaving?"" The content of MyFootprintSD is designed to make students cognizant of their digital footprint. In that way, it helps students be aware of what is safe and what is risky when using the web or other digital communication tools. In working through it, students will grow aware of how far these kinds of tools spread into their lives and how large the effects of their use can be (for better or for worse). Lessons and activities are explained here for educators but directions are included on the students' portion of the website as well. Elementary, Middle school, and high school

useful web application that allows you to easily upload and document and immediately turn it into a webpage.

"Automatically create a Personal Timeline of your life from any digital assets you have, such as pictures, videos, blogs, documents, or any internet page." research starter?

Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Key Features * Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow * Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming, clone stamp * Batch editor: Batch edit multiple photos * Page: Merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo * Combine: Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create one final photo * Animated GIF: Use multiple photos to create a final animated photo

Purpose-- to discuss "overfiltering and overblocking web 2.0 sites in schools and libraries, and provide reasonable alternatives which support broader student and teacher access to these sites." Wesley Fryer

"online desktop where you can easily collaborate with others. It's perfect for freelancers, small businesses, students and groups with similar interests." Combo wiki and social network

Widgets for ratings: stars, sliders, sidebar Provides a way to rate anything

a live binder of tools, tutorials and more to help students show what they have learned

Sometimes it is easier to see concepts visually to get a basic understanding and then do further research on the topics that are most relevant to your business. In today's post we collected some great visualizations of social media concepts including monitoring and content distribution.

"Margaret Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins."

Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes.

Internet Public Library and Librarians' Internet Index combined kids, teens, special collections, newspapers & magazines, subject area resources

"These resources include multiple strategies for locating and evaluating culturally authentic international children's and adolescent literature as well as ways of engaging students with these books in classrooms and libraries. "

"We have created an audio magazine in which we tell the stories of the importance of school libraries and teacher librarians via interviews with teacher librarians, library staff, teachers, community members, parents, administrators, and most importantly, students. The format is along the lines of a 'This American Life' type of audio journal with a narrator, who sets the tone, describes the dilemma, and sets the stage for each interview. Each is short but dramatic and powerful. The intent is to distribute the audio journal widely on radio and across the Internet -- go 'viral' as create CDs to hand to legislators and decision-making administrators. Teacher librarians and others are able to download the journal and burn CDs to distribute to their local administrators and parents. stories from: Dr. Doug Achterman, Glen Warren, David Burt, Winny Duffy, Heather Keaton, APRIL Wayland, Manuel PEREZ, Dr. Leslie Farmer, Donald Gill, Jeanne NELSON, Anne Birchfield, Hannah Jackson, Kathy Green, and Sophie.

This site is dedicated to advocacy for libraries-getting the message out about why libraries are important. It's important for us to remember that when one library closes, it sets a precedent for others. We're looking for advocacy information, testimonials from patrons and staff, photos, videos, anything to help save our libraries.