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pollyalida — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:56:44 +0000

by Jameson42 At this time last year, I had lots of training travel plans for the winter months, all of which came to an abrupt halt when I broke my knee in February. Even with that in the back of my head, I didn’t really plan to stay put this winter. But it turns out I [...]

Colors with Storify WordPress plugin

pollyalida — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:47:49 +0000

photos from my flickr feed - to test the Storify plugin for WordPress

Testing Embedly Plugin

pollyalida — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:30:38 +0000

Our WordPress ecourse is about to begin! So I though I’d test out a couple of WordPress plugins today. The Embedly plugin makes it easy to add content from other sites simply by pasting a URL into a post. No need to find the embed code for a photo, video, map, etc., just copy and [...]

iDoneThis

pollyalida — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:26:17 +0000

Will I ever catch up and finish this challenge before it’s over? Day 10 of #blog12daysxmas was 2 days ago. I think the challenge is probably over in Australia, since it’s already Day 12 there! A quick post then. iDoneThis is a handy tool that might help you keep track of what you’ve done everyday. [...]

Two free webinars: eBooks & WordPress

pollyalida — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:01:41 +0000

I’m very happy to be participating in the next Carterette Series webinars sponsored by the Georgia Library Association on Wednesday, January 18 from 2 – 4:15 PM. Registration is free. The always awesome Kate Sheehan will talk about Ebooks, Discovery, and the Library and I’ll be talking about WordPress for Library Websites. Be sure to [...]

14 Things To Tame

pollyalida — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:58:33 +0000

Check out 14 Things to Tame, a terrific new Learning 2.0 project for teachers from Sara Kelley-Mudie. They’ll be covering a lot of ground over the next 15 weeks! You can be sure I’ll be ‘stealing’ stuff from Sara for some of my own projects. (Thanks Sara!) Lucky teachers at The Forman School in Litchfield [...]

Podcast Feast

pollyalida — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:23:07 +0000

I’m still a day or two behind – this is for Day 7 of #blog12daysxmas! This was a busy weekend with more family visiting. And that meant more cooking. And cooking means lots of time to listen to podcasts. I love listening to podcasts while I cook, sometimes it slows me down a bit while [...]

Sharing with Evernote public folders

pollyalida — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:18:05 +0000

I’m a day or two behind, but I’m catching up – this is for Day 6 of #blog12daysxmas! Evernote is one of several tools that help keep me organized. And that’s saying a lot. In 1977, I applied to library school after reading the course catalog and thinking I might become an organized person. Didn’t [...]

Skitch

pollyalida — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:55:16 +0000

Day 5 of #blog12daysxmas Last summer Evernote acquired Skitch, a free tool for annotating, editing and sharing images and screenshots. When it became available for the iPad, I finally gave in and upgraded to iOS 5. It’s currently available for Android, iOS and Mac and makes fast work of drawing arrows and shapes on a [...]

ifttt sends my Summify updates to Instapaper

pollyalida — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:14:34 +0000

Day 4 of #blog12daysxmas and that means it’s already 1/3 over. Maybe this is a challenge I can actually meet? Yesterday I posted about Summify, a tool for monitoring social media for the articles and links being shared by people in your social networks. Today I want to share two more tools, ifttt and Instapaper, [...]