[LM_NET] Gen: What are your new favorite free online tools?

[Kelly Stern <sternk@CEDAR-FALLS.K12.IA.US>]

What are your favorite free online tools this year?  Someone starts this
topic each year around this time, and although I keep up with my journal
reading, there are always cool tools I manage to miss somehow.   

Please reply to me and I will compile and post a hit.

As for my favorite...although I started using Shelfari (online bookshelf
and social networking site for readers) in Feb. of 2008, it has become a
part of my morning routine to log in so that when students ask for book
recommendations, I can browse my shelf quickly for reminders about what
I've read recently that they would like.  Two classes at my school have
Shelfari groups so that students can get recommendations from their
classmates and so that students' reviews are written for a real audience. 
(I'm the lucky person who gets to introduce them to Shelfari in the
library.)
Available at www.shelfari.com.

Thanks, everyone for a great year of sharing and discussion!

-------------------------------------
Kelly Stern
Teacher Librarian
Cedar Falls High School
Cedar Falls, Iowa
sternk@cedar-falls.k12.ia.us


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