Share your links as tabs

I love to use delicious to save my bookmarks on the web and I love sharing those bookmarks with others. But I found another quick way to share bookmarks with others by using ShareTabs you can create a large list of bookmarks and then send one link to your friends that will show them all of the bookmarks in one page with a preview of each page not just a link. Check it out and see how you can implement it in your online/hybrid/ or face to face courses.

An easy way to organize google searches...

Google Squared is tool that returns Google searches in a square/grid that are sortable by column. Some initial searches required some contextual starting points so that the application had a better idea of what to return. I tried "Models for Quality Online Learning" and it prompted me for examples. I entered QOCI, Quality Matters, and 5 Pillars. It returned these three models, and three other links related, but not as pointed as I had hoped.

I deleted some things, added one that I knew was missing and got a final square that I saved. Definitely something to take a closer look at and see if it can be used in your classes.

Update: Just tried to do some collaborative things: doesn't really allow it. In order to edit and change a table a user needs to save it as their own table. The changes are private. BUMMER. Still neat to create some nice tables of information quickly.

Best Free Reference Web Sites 2009

The Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association just published a list of the best free reference websites of 2009. This includes some wonderful sites with great information such as ePodunk, PubChem, and Lexicool. Lexicool is a searchable directory of more than 6000 free online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries. PubChem is a search tool for free chemistry information which divides the information into 3 areas: Compounds, Substances, and BioAssays. Finally, ePodunk is an aggregate of easily browsable city and county profiles - a wonderful source of local data. You may want to consider linking to any of the RUSA recommended sites in your classes, and the ECC Librarians would be happy to provide in class or online library instruction to educate your students about any of these resources and more.