Week 5, Thing #12

My Rollyo searchbox follows:

Select Search Engine...Running TipsSearch The Web

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We were asked to put in a topic that interested us, then place a searchbox on that topic on our blog. At least that's how I understood the directions! I completed a half-marathon in June and another one in October, and had so much fun and loved the challenge so much that I want to continue training through the winter months. So I created a Rollyo searchroll named "Running Tips" that you can access through this blog. I also created a Rollyo account and added some other searchrolls for topics of interest to me.

Week 5, Thing #11

I spent quite a bit of time looking through the award-winning Web 2.0 sites. I liked the way the awards site was organized by categories. After looking though a number of categories, I finally delved into the Furl.net website that is listed under the "bookmarks" category. It's a nifty website that allows you to keep a record of sites that you've visited that have been useful or of interest. It automatically fills in the URL, the title, and gives you fields to fill in such as opinions, ratings, keywords. You also put a "Furl It" button on your favorites bar, which you select if there's a particular passage or description of the website that you want to copy to your Furl.net page. Your results can either be public or private. I will continue to use Furl.net.
For the "ning" activity, I went directly to "Teacher Librarian Network Ning". I joined the network, but still haven't joined any of the groups within the network. I'll need to spend more time on the site to see what this social networking offers. But I did put the feed for the "Information Fluency Project" group here on this blog.