 How many of you, is this your first tech day? All right, that is great. How many of you, is there anybody who's been to all of them? Paula, all right, from Atchison. OK, that's pretty awesome. We have a great, actually just a really great schedule. Just so you know, this first session is also being broadcast to Nebraska. So that's the, all the little tools down the side of the slide here. That's Michael Sowers, who's with the Nebraska Library Commission. And he's also recording some of the sessions for us today, so we can share them with other folks who weren't able to be here. And I also want to point out Meredith from Johnson County. Stand up. She brought the 3D printer from Johnson County, which is A. Thank you. She's, it's working away in the edge. The edge is just down the hall. At the end, it's the team zone. It's a secure area. So we left the 3D printer in there. Topeka has graciously shared one of their new Wando pads, so it's in there on display. When we have a break, when we have lunch, we have a longer break this afternoon. Anytime you want to catch somebody from Topeka Public and get into that room, we will have it open during those break times. But if you need to get in some other time and just check it out, let us know. We'll get you in there. Try to think what else. Bathrooms, if you don't know where all the restrooms are, there's restrooms right outside here in the hallway. There's also some as you go into the library across from the children's area. You probably don't want to miss them as you go towards all that side of the library reference. Try to think what else. Lunch, we will actually have two lunch lines. So when we get to that point, I will kind of give you some heads up about where you can go to get your lunch. As Terry said, if there's any problems, let us know and we'll try to take care of it. And I do want to thank Topeka and Shiny County Public Library because they are wonderful to work with. They bend over backwards. They make sure that we have what we need. Even with the technology that we're dealing with today, they've made sure that everything is working to its best. So I really, really appreciate that they are willing to do that for us. So we will probably continue to meet here for Tech and Innovation Day just because it's a great space. Next year, they have great plans for this room. So it will be totally quiet. We'll have displays down the wall. So if you're sitting in the back, you'll be able to see what's up here. It'll be awesome next year. But it'll be awesome today, too. I'm going to introduce our first speaker, who is Cynthia Deeshofer, and she is the Director of Library Information Resources for Central Methodist University in Missouri. What town is it? Fayette, Missouri. She's an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Education. She teaches courses in instructional technology, social media, and instructional design. She's published articles on Pinterest and social media best practices for libraries published last month by Roman and Littlefield. She's a regional speaker. She will serve as President of the Mobius Consortium beginning in June, and she's on the Missouri Library Association for the Directors. She's an avid crocheter, playwright, and mom, and she secretly hates cats but loves heartigans. Cynthia Deeshofer. Morning. Thank you guys for inviting me. I'm really excited, in spite of the fact that I live in Columbia, and I've been a night in Lawrence, Kansas. And I'm excited to be here. And have any of you guys heard me speak before? I talk really, really fast. So if I'm going way too fast, please, somebody like away to me and say, slow down. But the point of my sessions are awareness. I'm not here to teach you guys an in-depth way to use some of these tools. And I want to make sure that you all can build a toolbox of free, non-downloadable things that everybody can access. So you have tools at the ready to help any kind of question that might come up at a reference desk, something on the children's desk. If you do instruction, all those are through. So that's what we're going to focus on today. And make sure everything works. I'm a little bit thrown off by all these microphones. So you'll have to say, excuse me. OK, first, you guys, if you are sitting at a page with like a weird colored sheet, you have a handout of the things I'm going to go over today. I did not bring enough for everybody. I'm sorry. But I will put everything on slide share. And I was told there will be a link to the material backwards. So if you didn't get a handout, there will be one accessible after the fact. But everything I'm going to talk about today, you can just Google it. I don't even worry about putting .com or .med or .us or whatever they are anymore, because we can all just Google everything, right? We're all good at Googling. Everything we're going to look at is free. They're all web-based. They require no downloads, OK? That's a big thing I know at my institution and a lot of the schools and libraries I go to, people can't download, right? They can't go to a site and download software. So we try to find things that are totally web-based. Many of these do have an app version. Sometimes the app version is cooler. Sometimes it's less cool. It just depends. When I come to an app version, I'll let you guys know. But yeah, some of them know, some of them don't. I try to stick to more web-based stuff, because then everybody has a smartphone. I come from a place where it's full of cool, first-generation college students. So we don't assume that everybody has a smartphone. Many of them are cooler if you use our assess readers, if you blog, if you tweet, if you do have a smartphone. But everything can be used without it. All you need is an internet connection. And many of them are cooler if you buy the pro version. Everybody want to give you that little taste? And they say, OK, you're free for whatever you can do this, but if you'll give us four bucks a month, you can have the exciting version. But everything here is free at least to begin with. I try to group tools by similar functions. Web applications don't easily group themselves. So if the groupings seem a little nebulous, that's because, yeah, I was trying to group them. And they talk really, really fast. So if I go into fast, please let me slow down. And then at the end, if you guys have any recommendations, we're going to bleed right into your next session, which is a light round of your all's favorite web kind of stuff. So hopefully we'll sort of just have a nice little segue into the next session. I do love little cats. I do hate cats in real life, which is why that's on there. I hate it for a long time because no librarians and cats. I have dogs, I don't have cats. But I do like little cats, so there are some in my presentation. OK, so web 2.0 is getting to be kind of an outdated term. But it's still kind of the best one I can find to group this sort of stuff together. I don't know if anybody else has a better term that they like to use. But I'm still using that term. For these tools, and for web 2.0 in general, we try to find things that are multi-platform. I don't want anything that can't work on a Mac and only works on a PC or can only work in Firefox and not Internet Explorer. So we try to find things that can work across all platforms. You never know what people are going to come in with. You might have somebody that comes in with a really ancient laptop with Internet Explorer 5, and they're trying to work things. So we try to make sure we can be as multi-platform as possible. Free, obviously, is a big deal. Numbers have enough money. So free is always a good thing. Our payments will have that money. So we can find things that are free that's always useful. And actually useful. How many of you all are like, oh, I got one with an app for my phone. It's going to be great. It's going to change my life. And then you have to wedge it into the way you work, or wedge it into the way you live because you want to use it. But it's not really that useful. I have a tendency to do that. I get excited by flashy toys. But then I don't actually use it. So I try to find things that you guys can integrate into your workflows and to your reference questions in a usable way. Everything here, too, some of them are apps, but most of them are cloud-based. There's a little bit of crossover, and we're sort of blurring those lines now. Most often, it seems like developers started producing for both the cloud platform and both for apps. But there's still a few that are one versus one. Phones, everything I try to find is also in the app store for Apple's and on Android Market and on Google Play. I don't think there's anything that I can hold out. I'm trying to remember. Apple's a little bit more exclusive than the other two. Sometimes they don't want to share. But most of these are prominent enough now where they're on all platforms. And then again, we don't have any downloads here. In which you're downloading the app for your phone, everything is cloud-based. We don't have to worry about that download, security, restriction kind of stuff. OK, so here we go. Facebook. I'm joking. I feel like I'm joking. So I like to scare people with blocks of unbroken text. That's what you want to look at like at 9 o'clock in the morning. OK, anyway. But we'll do a bikini. The first thing I want to say is our classic presentation software. We all use PowerPoint, right? I'm using it this morning to my shame. But I can't find a better way to do these kinds of links than PowerPoint, so it still gets its due. But I wanted to show you guys a couple of non-traditional presentation software. Has anybody used Slide Rocket? Yes, I'm going to ask that a lot. Just wave at me if you used it. Slide Rocket is basically like PowerPoint, right? But it's integrated into the web. I'm not going to click into it because you don't necessarily see it. But the cool thing about it is that it's integrated into YouTube and to create a comments licensing. So if you want to make a PowerPoint and you want to pull photographs, you know everything that you're pulling onto Slide Rocket has Creative Commons licensing. So it's a really good tool to teach people how to use media and things that not violate copyright. It also has some cool animation and stuff like that. But it's really just a fancy, but based PowerPoint. I just like the Creative Commons asset to it. We have an issue with that. I know students are dealing with images all the time and not thinking about it. So this is a nice tool. Prezi, everybody's probably seen a Prezi, the zooming ones. Have you seen a Prezi? Yes, okay. Prezi, like I don't even link it because I'm so bad at it right now. Prezi is a really great idea. It's a zooming editor so you can animate all of your slides and everything kind of consumes together. But the problem with Prezi nowadays is that they're getting huge and they're not buying the capacity to keep up with their pugeness. So they freeze all the time. They block up. They'll say they're over capacity, which is not something I wanted a web tool. And they've made a whole lot of templates that basically take away the coolness of Prezi. And so when you shoot it out there to teach students or teach somebody that's trying to do a presentation, they get these kind of nasty templates. So Prezi's kind of my example of a web tool gone bad. A couple of years ago, it was awesome. Now it's like, oh, we're gonna just have templates and we're gonna do it. And they're just not as cool as they used to be. So take a look at it if you've not seen a Prezi. But if you're gonna use it creatively and they'll just stick yourself into it. So I'm just not a simple person. Okay, Impressor, I'm gonna click into, Impressor is, we'll see, we're kind of testing the life idea. See how it works. That's at the Govind Media, no? No, okay, excuse me a wave. Impressor is another online media presentation application. And it has the capability to incorporate a lot of financial stuff and a lot of analytics. Slotters, I didn't mention that earlier but Slotter I can just have some built-in analytics but you have to pay for them. Impressor is free, okay. And it does have a lot of built-in stuff. And let's do Built Benefits of Financing a New Car. And it's all open source. I actually like to find this for reference questions too for things like this, Benefits of Financing a New Car. So you might have somebody come in and say, I wanna buy a new car. What does it mean to finance a new car? Well, chances are Impressor will have a nice little financial guideline for you that you can click through but we'll vote maybe. Feel like I need like the jumpery music on cue. So we can, oh well I clicked on a bad one because this one's like totally boring. There you saw a cool little animation. But basically, I'm giving up on that one. Basically what it does is it has a storehouse of pre-built presentations. When you make anything on Impressor you can choose to make a public or private that most of them are public. And it does have a lot of very cool Excel-like things that are built into it. So if you're doing something a little more business-y, Impressor is a good choice. CREASA is a set of tools. And CREASA, it's actually CREASA education. CREASA is awesome. For school librarians or really anybody out there. Like it's my new favorite thing. I have a five-year-old and he thinks this is absolutely fabulous. CREASA has built-in web-comic building. It has a presentation somewhere. Up-create, four unique tools. There we go. Okay, so it has cartoonist, which is to make web-comics. It has a bunch of built-in little tools that you can build your own web-comics. And you can mix and match themes and content. And it's all freely available. The artists have all given creative comics for edit. So you can make your own web-comics. It has a basic movie editor, totally web-based. So if you don't wanna download Windows Movie Maker or do anything like that, you can use Movie Editor. It's very, very simple, very kid-friendly. It also has an audio editor. It's like a four-channel audio editor. So if you record yourself and you wanna add some background music, things like that. Totally web-based, have loads. MindDomo is a mind-mapping software. If we're like, I'm a mind-mapper. I don't know if you guys are. But you can start terms that you can actually like do a visual brain store. It also has an iPad version. So it is cross-platform. But it's just a group of tools. Again, it's totally free, built for teachers that everybody can use it. There is educational pricing, so if you wanna buy a license for a classroom, you could do that. But it's free to sign up. It's free to play with any of these tools. I especially like cartoonists. Again, my five-year-old thinks it's awesome. He can pull pictures in and create his own little web-comics. Really, really neat set of tools. Okay, and then the last one is lovely charts. And lovely charts is a tool to help you make your own infographics. I'm a big infographics person and I know there's kind of an infographic revolution going on right now. We can visually present our information. Then people glean more from it and they can understand it in a more accessible way. And lovely charts just gives you, let me click on it. Oh, my God. I had to get really fast at it. I seriously have to break the lifetime here. That's my goal. You think we draw. It's just a lovely website, too. But if you need to build, again, there's a free online edition. But then now if you wanna buy it, you can pay your 30 pounds a year. But you do get it for free. There's an iPad version as well. It's really, really neat for making flow charts. Let's look at the gallery really fast. It has a lot of 3D modeling capabilities. You can see there's little people. For the free version, the stuff they had here were those boxes. That's more like what you can do, right? But if you wanna pony up your $30, and you can do really, really fancy stuff, like move little people around. But the idea behind this is that it's really, really simple to use. It's drag and drop software. It draws these cool little lines for you. You can see it looks like there's a LAN network device cloud that someone has made. Those are just a few examples. But again, free version. iPad app, totally cross platform. Very nice little tool. Okay, next, our category is new media presentation. I didn't know how to categorize these things. So that's why they're under new media presentation. These are all sort of audio or second layer presentations. The first one is called Voice Thread. And Voice Thread is one of my favorite things ever. I locked them so you guys can see. What Voice Thread lets you do is actually record over a presentation or a picture or a movie or anything. And so you can upload your media. I just have a couple of examples I've made in my education technology class to you before we left, so you guys can see. But we uploaded an optical illusion, right? We'll see if it'll load the media. And then, so how this works is you upload your media and then you don't have to have a microphone. You can actually have it call you. It's a free call. You can talk into your phone and it will record your voice and comment. So it's a great way if you're working on a national project or something and you need feedback from a variety of people. They can call in on their own time. They can leave you a comment, right? And then you can come and look at it at your leisure. It's free for up to 60 minutes of recording time, which I have never run out of and I've been using this in class for about four semesters now because most people leave a comment. That's a minute or less. But what I like about this is people will say things that they never type out, right? So you can actually get some really more honest feedback and you can tell a lot by people's tone of voice. And so it's just a really cool tool and it's so easy to use because you just put your phone number in, it calls you and it says record now and then suddenly your comment is on the internet, right? I just think it's a really, really neat tool and it has a lot of uses. Again, free for an hour of talking time and then after that, not so much. Okay, Vokey is to make animated vocal avatars. Has anybody ever made a Vokey? Yeah, couple people, woohoo, Vokeys are very fun. You can record your own voice or you can use a standard voice. My students love this because you can pick what accent you want so you can make yourself like a frog in a Rastafarian wig that has an Australian accent, right? You can choose anything you want. There are paid options so you can add a lot of bling to your character or something that you can pay for a little bit more. It has lesson plans, right, integrated in so how you can use your Vokey. There's an educational version so if you don't want everybody to make a login, you can make a bunch of set logins and send them out to you, class or to students or to whoever you want, really, you know, kids at a story time. And you can click on really quickly, choose your options. I've got to have that option on my screen too. It also, yeah, the lesson plan database is awesome. But basically, we use it for introductions because you always have those awkward situations where you have to introduce yourself. And for kids, especially teenagers, this, giving this, this animated version is a really good icebreaker because that way they don't have to stand up themselves and like say, I'm from Salisbury and I have two dogs and I do this. They can make a little animated person and it does it for them. And they have a lot more fun and they feel a lot more comfortable sharing themselves in that way. It just gives them a little bit of distance, right? And you can see there's a whole lesson plan window here. Very fun, totally free, really easy to use. The logster is like logster except visual information. You can basically make online poster presentations. There's an educational version of this too so you can sign up and get a bunch of logins if people don't have to sign up then so. But it's totally a visual representation information. You can embed video clips. You can pull in your own pictures. You can pick it up to different themes. This is another popular one with teenagers because basically it's like decorating the inside of your locker only online. So you can pull in and do whatever you want. Pinterest, everybody loves Pinterest, right? Who loves Pinterest? Raise your hands. All the women, all the women love Pinterest, yes. I don't know, my guys don't like Pinterest. Like are there any guys in here will they admit it that they like Pinterest? Okay, whoo-hoo, there's another one. My tech students told me that Pinterest was tumblr for old ladies. I can see where they're coming from. And Pinterest, I've been doing a lot of research on how libraries use Pinterest. Most of us, and also you mine, use it for new books, new videos, that sort of stuff as a visual way to share our collections. We started using it in my instructional design class for, you can see here, we have a research portal for satire, so the students were supposed to explain satire, right? How do you explain satire? Well, if you can pull images up of the Daily Show and the Boondocks, it's easier to explain what satire is. Gulliver's Travels right there's our class in satire. So this became a good way to have them be able to express themselves, but not necessarily have to stand in front of the classroom to explain what satire is, okay? So we're using those again for research portals. I also, this is my favorite one, one of my students made a food passport. He got all these different pictures of different ethnic foods, and then he made a little passport, and so once you try all of these different recipes, you got a little stamp on your passport, and you just had different versions. Of course, Pinterest is all about food. Food and crafts and like wedding photos, that's what I'm saying, yes. But there are many, many uses for it past that. So I think it's just the easiest way on the web right now to group visual information, regardless of the stigma that it has. I can't find a competing tool that lets you so easily group images. And yes, they're fighting with their copyright issues. They're doing much better about that. They're getting nice little lanes. Sometimes it goes away. Post-etch lets you and someone else draw on a web page at the same time. So cool. You log in, you send people a link, you go to a web page, and you can draw on it, like with marker, like you know, virtual markers. I don't really know like why you would use it, but it's so cool. Like why you wouldn't even give me an example. It's just really, really neat. It's like basically giving yourself an online smart board, okay? You can send that out of the link, and you can, I guess I didn't really need to go to that. You can see an example that I'm here of a map, right? You can draw on top of a map. So if you really don't like your Google map, you can just draw on top of it. Quick, how many of you guys have Android phones? Lots, okay. How many of you guys have Android phones and then have a person you want to call but they have an iPhone, right? Okay, so quick, let's do FaceTime across platforms. It's an app, basically. Like FaceTime is a visual phone. It's like the Jetsons, right? Where you call and you see people talking. But quick, it's just basically that's what it is. It's an app that lets you FaceTime across platforms. I see people looking for it right now. Yay, my job is done. It's just very cool. Quick used to be a photo editing software, and they quickly fell out of the market. They're never gonna compete with Instagram and all those folks. So they've reinvented themselves as this basically FaceTime for Android phones. But it works really well. You can record video at any time and stream it or you can use it like they started. So if you've got an Android phone and you wanted Jetsons, call people down with quick. Visually, I'm just gonna mention really fast because someone's gonna talk about it in the next session. But visually, it's a storehouse of infographics. Again, I love infographics. So you'll have to just use my constantly talking about them. Have I over? Okay, there we go. Okay, so it has a bunch of different here's some pretty ones down here. Receive a complimentary infographic. You can see down here at the bottom, there are 32,000 of these. Most of them are stealable or you can be with credit, of course. If you can tell me there's a pretty crude one. Facts and information about Niger and Elm Street. Endangered species. My favorite one was there was like an analysis of the way that the soccer ball was passed during the last World Cup. Like, and it was all these weird little squirrely arrows that somebody had actually sat down and trapped all the time instead of the soccer ball was passed. There's the cost of being Iron Man, right? All kinds of cool little bits and information. But everything on here, again, are infographics. There is a builder, so you can use basic templates to make your own infographics. And of course, if you wanna get really fancy, you can pay them a little bit of money and get a really fancy burden. Okay, work stuff. So we all have to work, right? We love our jobs for librarians, so we all have to work. So I categorize this stuff as work stuff. The first two are Markup and Awesome Highlighter. Does anybody use these? Awesome Highlighter has been around for a long time. Like, it is one of the first web tools. I saw it like at Computers and Libraries in 2008. I think it's so old. But it lets you draw on any page. You put your HTTP in there. I'll use my school's website. Okay, so you can go here. It's very cool. Like, if you are one of those people that really keeps up with your profession and like all these cool articles and you wanna share them with your staff or you wanna share them with your coworkers, you can highlight on the room and then send out the special links and then you can see the cards that you think are most important because basically what it is. Okay. So yeah, it opens up your page within Awesome Highlighter. You can click which color you want and then you can like, I want yellow and then you can like draw the, and I've broken it again. I think I'm really taxing the white lighter. Scroll down and I can say, okay, I wanna highlight this stuff. Okay, so where is that? Although it means, I picked a bad page because I don't have a lot of text. Okay, we can highlight the address and then you can add a note if you want to and then you save that link and then you can eat, there it goes, now it's highlighting. Okay, so you can highlight whatever you want. You can add a little post-y note then you click the done button. It gives you a URL and you can send it out to the world. So look at me, I highlighted all over what page. There you go. And you can send it out to people. It's just a really neat tool because sometimes you have an article or something you wanna send to people and they only need one little bit of it. So you can highlight it and then send it out. And it's also one of those tools for me when people complain about print versus electronic information and you hear that they like to write on it. Like, Marginalia is disappearing, I hear that sometimes from my faculty. You can still Marginalia, you just have to save the link, right? You can write all over it and then you can save the link. Markup is another tool that's like that. It's pretty much the same as Awesome Relator except for that it starts off right with that and you don't have to copy or link over but I find it less reliable. So you just have to play with it to you and see which one you like best. Toodaloo and Workflowy are kind of what they sound like. Workflowy is my favorite. Toodaloo is a little bit more hardcore and I'm not terribly hardcore. Oh, there are a lot of them. Workflowy allows you to build a task list across platforms. You can make it on the web, you can download the app and carry it over to your whatever device you have. But basically, like it lets you outline Like here's MLA and we're not in elections. Okay, I can go back to work. I can go back to home. I can click on personal. I can say, okay, Archer by the Christmas. Archer's my son. He has to go to swim lessons. Those sorts of things. Okay, you can make little task things. But then when you're done or you want to add more, you can see that you can break it out and look at how much you're working on. But it's all, it just lives in your browser. It's wherever you want to log into it. Again, you can put it on your device and this is the way I organize myself. So I just find it really helpful. It is one of those tools though that if you don't organize yourself like this, you might be wedging it in. So I don't wedge it in. Just try it and see if it helps you out. Wedging themselves in. Toodaloo, I have a really, really, really organized friend named Brandy Sanchez. He works at Daniel Boone Regional Library. I don't know if anybody knows her. But she's one of those people that wants to be on task all the time. And she loves Toodaloo and actually brought it to my agenda. And you can organize yourself in Toodaloo to the point where if you have two minutes between two meetings, Toodaloo will send you an alert and say, here's a task, you can finish in those two minutes. So like four, four, four, five, six, seven, eight. So I can't do it because you have to head shake me. All right, we're not, we're not there. I'm not there, all right. I'm gonna screw around for those 10 minutes and I'm gonna watch it. Don't tell me. But like if you are like that, right, it'll actually organize you, give it yourself like an estimated time, it would take a complete task. You put all your tasks in there, it looks at your schedule and it integrates into your calendar. And then it will say, hey, you have two hours free, you can work on the statistics or whatever. So if you need that kind of control or you want that kind of control, this is the tool for you. Again, it's free, it's really great to do this. I'm just not that great. That's what you do, that's what you do, that's what you do. That's how you, you're not the group. Well, no people like that, right though. Yeah? So you can take this one and you can give it to your boss. I'm thinking of you, I'm thinking of you. Okay, I think we're so productive. This thing is gonna remind me, I think it's gonna take pretty good. Pocket is the new version of a tool called Read It Later. I don't know if anybody has used this. But Pocket integrates across platforms, it's on the web, it's on an app, it's on an app store for every device. But it basically lets you stick an icon into your browser bar. And so if you come across an article or something and you wanna keep it for later, you click your pocket button, it sticks it in your pocket and you can come back to it in another time. It's basically a look parking tool. The cool thing about it though is it integrates as an app into your phone or your iPad or tablet. And it automatically integrates into Twitter, it automatically integrates into Facebook. So if you have tweets or something that you wanna come back to later, you can send those tweets to Pocket. Everything goes to Pocket and it automatically syncs across devices. So if you were on your phone later and you said, oh, there are like three articles I saw when I was browsing, you can open those up on your phone and read them. And so no matter where you pick it and no matter where you put it in your pocket, it'll be there for you later. It's the only tool, look parking tool that I found that works that well across platforms. I'm one of those people that always has the best intentions of reading things later. So my pocket's always full, right? And it's just cute because the app didn't even put it. Remember the milk also suffers from that cuteness factor here. Remember the milk is an online to-do list task manager. What I like about this one is that you can send lists to people. So I can say, hey, that's big. I have to work late. Can you pick up this stuff at the store? And it sends him a little list and he can't ignore it because it'll beep at him on his phone, okay? And so if you have people like that who have teenagers or whatever, and you're like, hey, teenager, you can clean your room up or do this or find a part-time job. You can do that. And they will constantly leave you. Zamsar is a file converter. This might be another one for the reference desk. Has anybody used Zamsar? Oh, yes. Zamsar is awesome because it converts just about anything. And we get this all the time. I have a Word document and I need it to be a works document or I have a works document and I want it to be open office. Or whatever they do. People want crazy stuff. I don't know anybody who would back-invert to works. How fast does it usually work? How fast does it usually work? It depends. It's totally web-based. So it sort of depends on your internet connection and the track that Zamsar is getting. But I found pretty good luck with it taking like a minute. If you do big, like we've converted some, oh, the Microsoft, it's like WAVE files or WMV files to MPEG files. And that took a little while because we were converting video. But if you're doing like PDF to Word and back-invert like that, it's super fast. So it just sort of depends on the media to kind of play your transferring back and forth. But it will do things like convert video, right? So if you're using like a map or a PC and you're using a proprietary format for video, you can use this to convert back and forth. It's really helpful. It's one of those that everybody should work because everybody has to do that at some point in their life. And script or script B. Justin was talking about this last night. Are you guys familiar with script? Yes? Okay, script is awesome. And you're like, oh my God, I have to write an implementation report. I don't even know what that is. You can go out to the script and see if somebody else has uploaded an implementation report. And you can take it, right? And change it for yourself, okay? And then give them credit because it's great in common. But it's just a really nice storehouse of information. And there are lots of things, like we did a Hunger Games event thing at my library. And we wanted to do Hunger Games trivia. Rather than write our own Hunger Games trivia, we would script and there were like 20 different people that had sort of Hunger Games trivia. So that saved me time and I just used someone else. So another library, it was actually Terrain's regional library, had the Hunger Games trivia there. So if you're, before you start, those kinds of kind consuming tasks, take a look because we like to share and probably somebody's already done it. Okay. Customer service, Feedbackify, lets you build little instant feedback that you can use into your website. So if you want your patrons to give you three questions worth of feedback about your library website, you can subscribe to the like $7 a month Feedbackify. They have a little pop-up that says, will you take a survey? Okay, if you guys have ProBusTools, ProBusTools do this terribly. So don't do this much, it's almost too much. But if you want to put it on your website, you can get that little bit of information very, very easily. It builds like a little baby web form, like a little baby survey monkey. And it just opens up when people have visited your site for X number of minutes. Okay, very nice way to get some quick feedback. Very cost-effective way to get some quick feedback. Text the mob and poll everywhere are those polly things. I didn't set one up because I figured most of you guys might be human, right? Where you text in your answer and the little bar slide. They look really impressive, but they're very, very easy to do. Poll everywhere and text them on. Basically do the same thing. They're free for like 40 respondents and the nap that you have to pay. But it lets you embed a real-time poll into a presentation or to a page or to whatever you're doing. Very cool if you want to answer some questions. And if you're a school or a academic library and you don't have clickers or you don't want to mess with clickers, this is a web-based version of clickers, basically. And then I truly care. It's one of my favorites. So I'm gonna click into it. I get attached to these things and then sometimes we go away and I'm like, oh, I did it. Used PayPal, right? Everybody used PayPal? I truly care is a non-property, nice version of PayPal. And what I truly care lets you do is you can set up zero-feed donations. So if you have a project and you want people to donate money to you and you don't want to pay PayPal's crappy fees, you can use a truly care, okay? And you can see, zero percent feed donations and it's totally true, okay? They do not take any off the top if you can prove that it's a charity event and that it's a non-profit organization. You can do ticket sales, you can do registration, you can take money for all different kinds of things. They just have really, really low overhead compared to PayPal. But they also take credit cards and do all that kind of stuff. They also have, you can see it has a promote and interact little button here. They have a lot of tools built in so you can sort of promote this out through social media. So I think it's just a really nice tool for libraries because I get really tired of paying for PayPal fees. Our state associations dealing with this right now. Well, I just clicked something naughty it's trying to filter me out. And so this way you can kind of get around some of those fees, right? What I truly care. Okay, I'm not chillin' so grand. I do have five-year-old, but I pull out some stuff that we use in my educational classes that I think would be really great for kids. Does anybody get my reference, you know, for kids? Like, I will love you. What's it from? Yes, yay! You guys have made a great day. It's from Hedzager Poxy, which is one of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen it, call me. Okay, Hedzager Poxy. So the first one is called Handy Points. Anybody use this? If you have a small child, this is an essential place for you to go. It's printable worksheets and activities. Yeah, everybody's like, yes! Right, okay, so you can print out chores. You can do, there's paper dolls. There's all, it's not going to display them. Look at all those boxes. There's math. The chore charts are what I really like. Like, you can get little star sheets. There's lots of arts and crafts. There's lots of basic learning things. And if you do, you can see there's 10,000 printables. There's a parenting blog on how to use some of this stuff. And if your kids are into that, the more they do it, they do the online versions. They earn little points, right? So they can use their little star points to buy stuff in the virtual store, which is like stickers for my virtual cat. But if you're five, that's pretty cool. Okay, but I think this is just so useful. So if you have a very stressed out parent at the children's desk that says, I don't know what to do. I'm gonna look at this and say, ha, ha, ha. Let's print out a chore chart for them. And then they'll hate you. But they might learn something. Okay. Storybird. Storybird is super cool. It's a storytelling tool. And you can see it's a storyboard for schools. And what this does is it gives you images. It's a bunch of, again, sort of creative commons art. Okay. And it lets you build stories. And you can, and you can see it has little reinforcement tools. And you can do fundraiser. But mostly, it's basically a story building tool. But the cool thing about it is it has a link so you can play like story around with it. Does anybody play story around? So I can say, oh, the castle, or the knight ran up to the castle and he saw the dragon and he pulled his sword in. And then you get a link and you can send it off to someplace else. Or you can save it on the web. And then the next person can add their bit to the story. And then you can go to the creative commons art and you can pull out images or whoever is using the dual compole images to illustrate their story. It's totally free. And if you are an artist and you want to get some exposure for your art, you can also share art on this site. It's just a fun little thing to do. Little bird tails is illustrating your own audio storybook. You make an account. You do have to have a microphone and you have to work into an app version of this which will not require it. But if you want to record your voice or a child's voice, you do have to have a microphone. But they are like $4 or more right now. They're really insensitive. But what it lets you do, you can draw or upload your artwork to each page. Then you record your voice and then you have a nice little web-based audio storybook. We did this with my, the people I was teaching to be teachers and we had an early literacy class where we had kids come in. And it was just so much fun because the kids really enjoyed hearing themselves and being able to draw their own pictures for their stories. There sometimes are naughty ones on here though because there's no, you know, blocker. So if you are opening it up, I made this mistake. If you're opening up in front of a classroom, you might like wanted to dance. So you don't open up in that again. So here we can say, I'm not even gonna tell you what it was. Okay, so you guys here, we have twinning, obviously some child has drawn this picture of a chick. Okay, you guys can't really hear it. No. Yeah. So basically, yeah, it has a little audio because they recorded their voices. Very fun. Totally free. Yeah. Really cool. S'mores is also an audio storybook sharing thing. And I'm gonna show you this one because it actually started in the UK. So when you look at these stories, a lot of them they have the awesomeness accent. So if you wanna see like little tiny kids with cool British accents. This is the place to go. And again, you're not gonna be able to hear it. So there's really nobody going to be cleaning. But what this, as it has an iPhone app too, and it's going to the Android store, you can record yourself reading a story and then you can share it out in the S'mores' web space. So she's reading, she's feeling grumpy and she needed cheering up. So again, it's just another place where you can share out those stories. It's very easy to upload. It gives some kids some confidence that they can read out loud and they'll be a little video of themselves. And there are absolutely tons of these stories out there. Red Kid is a storehouse of creative tools for kids. I'm not gonna click into it now, but it has tons of signed creators. It has a web mail for kids that's like a safely monitored web mail. So if you have a little one that wants to throw an email address and you're not cool about giving them a Gmail address right now because they might get weird spam or something, you can use Red Kid to give them their own little email address. It also has a lot of cool sign printing tools and art activities and things like that. Audio and music, oh my God, okay, let me hear it again. Vocaroo and AudioCal lets you record audio and embed it in a website. So if you wanna do your message from your director as an audio file this month instead of just typing a paragraph, they can record it and you can embed it onto your website. We talked about Wokey and Winsred. Turbit lets you upload and again share audio easily, but this one lets you edit it a little bit better. And again, it's all hosted on the web and it lets you share out through a variety of social media. The other two I talked about, Vocaroo and AudioCal are links. So you can embed them. If you can't share them out, Turbit lets you share out. So it depends on what you're thinking for. Hark is a storehouse of soundbites. So if you want a soundbite for a presentation, for a website, they have sports, they have movies, they have political gaffes and clips and things like that, but it is an absolutely huge storehouse. And they are clips that are created so you can use them without violating copyright. So that's a big thing too. You can go in there and you can steal like 11 seconds of Harry Potter and that's all you get to use in Harry Potter, but you get those 11 seconds. So again, don't have to worry about copyright. And then Dragon Tape lets you create mixed tapes of any kind of media on the web. So if you've never been out there on YouTube and you're frustrated because something you wanna watch is broken into four clips, you can use Dragon Tape to string those clips together. We actually use this in our athletic training department to string clips of actually like analyzing injuries and things like that. So if you have like, oh, something broke your ankle and you wanna analyze it, you can pull those clips off, you can string them together into one video or one link and distribute that. So it's a very useful tool because YouTube doesn't let you manipulate their videos very much. Library of Shtains, who has novelist who would like to have novelist and can't afford it, okay. Booklamp is like an open source version of novelist. It's building itself up so it'll get better and better. And if you are one of those altruistic people that wants to go help it, you can go out there and put some book DNA in it. But basically it lets you search by things that you have read and what you might like. So like here's using Givenchy code and Game of Thrones. If you like medieval weapons and armor, right, you might like Game of Thrones. Surprise, if you like criminal investigation, you might like the girl, you could come to the test. But there are lots of different aspects to this. There's an ongoing log, you could make an account. It's kind of like a crossover of novelist and digital humanities. Like, looks through the text, tries to find things and then it tries to give you read-alikes. For those of us who don't have novelist, it's a very nice little novelist-esque tool. Book track, I mentioned, because I think it's like the stupidest thing to do. I mean, has anybody heard of this? I just have to share because it's so silly. It's like, what it's supposed to do is give you a soundtrack that goes along with your e-book. Right? So like it supposedly knows like the best music to go along with your e-book and then it'll download it onto your device and then you can listen to the music with your e-book. Like, isn't that a weird contact? Right? Like, you don't understand, like, here's a hypo one. Here's a soundtrack for the new time. It's all a mess. It's in forms and it's like, it's getting all this past. But I don't understand a fucking thing. So if any of you guys, like, think this is great or have a use to it, let me know. But I just have to share it because I just think it's the weirdest thing to do. But it's like, hey, it's a company, that's six months old. I don't know. Mubella's and Thickly are places to share your own fiction. So you're a short story writer and you want a community that out there that's all short story writers. You can check out Mubella's and Thickly and they'll workshop for you and they'll help you get published and they'll do all that. Genie is a genealogy tool. It helps you build family trees. It basically looks like a mind-mapping software. You can build a diagram, but then it has boxes so you can add your personal information. So you can actually build a virtual family tree and add your little genealogy bits in there and then have a link to send out to people. Or there's a printable version, totally free. Really, really neat for those genealogy people. Storify is integrating social media. I'm an academic librarian. I have faculty that thinks social media is like the devil. So we really like, the Twitter is a horrible thing. It's just the, yeah. Okay, I'll stop there with that. But what Storify lets you do, if it'll have those, maybe not, is it lets you pull information from all over the web. Both news articles, tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram, all of that stuff and it lets you integrate into a story. So you can pick a topic, you can search the web and you can pull all this stuff in and then what you get with is basically a multimedia research paper. So it's not just focusing on our traditional sources, but it can, you can pull in those articles too. But if you want some commentary and things from social media sites, you can integrate those in. I think it's an absolutely fabulous place, especially if you had some social media dabbers out there. Small Demons is, I think it's broken. Small Demons is a storehouse of information about fictional characters. So if you wanna know what, I don't know, Elizabeth Salander reads in her books. You can go in and Small Demons will tell you all of the pop culture references that she makes or what she read. And it does that with everybody. So like if you wanna, I'm trying to think of another, like Jack Torrance from The Shining, right? If you wanna know everything pop culture-y that Jack Torrance did, what kind of whiskey he drank, what kind of medicine he took, that's all in Small Demons. But it's all cross-referenced, okay? So if you, or high fidelity is a good example. If you have high fidelity and you wanna know all the songs, they talk about in high fidelity, there's thousands of them. It links all of those visually, okay? I wish it would open. Cause it's really, it's one of my favorite things I found in like the last five years. It is the best trivia thing ever, right? Yeah, for trivia people. And it's not gonna find it. Go and take a look at it. It's really, really cool. It also does geographic location. It does like products. So like McDonald's or Kleenex, it'll find those references. Like it's just an amazing storehouse. It's another one of those sites though too that is depending on us to help them get better. So if you have a favorite book and you know it in and out and you wanna go add some of your knowledge to that base, please do it, cause it makes it better for everybody. So another one of those super librarian things. And then share some sugar. Share some, share some sugar, I don't know what that is. Share some sugar, share some sugar, I can't say it, share some sugar. It's like a library online. This popped up in 2008. And you can basically ask to borrow anything in your neighborhood. You can search by zip code and you can say I need a drill press, but I only need it for like two hours. I don't wanna spend $1,000 on one. Does anybody have one I could borrow? You put your zip code in and everybody that will loan you a drill press for two hours will pop up. Awesome. Like can you get more awesome than that? Like I don't wanna put us out of business, but it's really cool. Again, you can see like there's, share some sugar is like a modern day woman's fuzzy grandma who always happens to have just the right item, you need it, just the right timing. And that's really what it is. It's really well-developed in urban areas. It's not quite so much in smaller rural areas, but it's getting there. And you can see, you can look by I want a hammer or you can put by your zip code and you can find what's available. Okay, very cool. There's also like a baby stuffed trading swap and shop on there. Lots of different stuff. There's actually an instruction. Quizlet to make sure you make online, let you make online quizzes that are totally interactive and then it has built-in games. So if you wanna make a quiz, but then you also wanna make them like shoot the right answer. You know, we all played that when we were little. You can make a vocabulary quiz, but then they have to show you the right answer. So it's like game-based learning, totally free, totally web-based. You get a URL, you send it out to whoever you wanna take the quiz. Visual Thesaurus and iPor are both visual search engines. iPor is my favorite one. So we're running out of time, so I need to open it up. I don't really put the, oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, we talked about mind-mapping earlier and I'm a mind-mapper, so visual search engines are really a boon for me. You can see here, it gives you some examples. So like I'll do French Revolution, you can type anything in, but we'll use more of the canned ones. And it will pop up a relational mind-match search for you. Visual Thesaurus is basically the same thing, but it's a little more linear. So if you're a bubbly person, you'll like iPor. If you want lines, you'll like Visual Thesaurus. This one does, and it does have animation, so it's a little bit more intensive. It works on being, not Google. I mean, you can see here, it breaks it out by time, health, place, science, society, people. You get all of these, our links. It'll give you little shortcuts. It's really, really neat. It's great for a person that comes in and says I have to write a paper about the French Revolution and I don't want to focus on. This will give you a nice breakdown of that. Boolify is a tool that was made by the Simublemade Creata that actually lets you build searches using Boolean language. So if you're all about the Boolean language, it actually has little drag-and-drop things for ands and ors and knots and parentheses. So you can teach people how to use Boolean language, or if you just want to make yourself happy by using Boolean language as it dies out, you can use it in Boolify. And then Wolfram Alpha, are you guys familiar with Wolfram Alpha? Yes. It's a computational search engine. You can type in anything and it'll give you an answer practically. You can type your name in and it'll tell you how many people in the United States have your name, right? You can type your birthday in and it'll tell you how many people have your same birthday. And it'll do math and some other stuff, but. All these bad goodies, these have been around for a little while longer. Lucidchart is kind of like a lovely chart that lets you build diagrams and things web-based. What do you suggest is another search engine that will try to help you find a result. So if you're in Google and you got 3,000 results back and you can't quite figure out what you need, what do you suggest will actually turn it narrow down for you? It'll give you some examples. It's very nice to have our confused folks. YouTube Time Machine, anybody use this one? That's one I gotta click into. YouTube Time Machine takes all of the videos on YouTube and organizes them chronologically. Fabulous, I'm gonna see some more. Fabulous. Just think of the things we can do with this, right? It goes all the way back to like 1878 because there's some still images and things that have been uploaded. And it is really video intensive. But you can look for things like video games, television, right, you can link out, you can slide your ear. So like I wanna go to 1964, I click on it, it'll give me commercials, it'll give me movie trailers, it'll give me music, it'll give me anything that's on YouTube by the year, okay? They're just, the possibilities are endless. Right, YouTube Time Machine. Such a cool idea. Crayberry are flashcards, web-based flashcards. So if you have kids that come in and they wanna make flashcards, they can do that. There were a bunch of them that are pre-made as well. So like Spanish language was the one I was looking at this morning. You can open those up. It's also integrates into smart phones. So if you wanna make cards online, the thing you wanna practice in the back of your car while you're grinding or while you're not grinding, but while your mother's grinding. You can do your flashcards on a phone or a tablet. GovTrack and Open Congress are two sites that allow you to track basically just what they say. Government voting, money, who's there to vote and who's not there to vote, how bills are doing. So if you have a senator or if you have a bill that you wanna watch, you can set up an RSS feed and it will send you updates to that, okay? If you have somebody you're watching really closely like the Secretary of State and the State of Missouri who's cutting our libraries right now, we can watch everything he does using Open Congress and GovTrack. Down for everyone, is anybody use this? Yay, I got the GovTrack. This is like my favorite thing, is whatever, down for everyone or just me. Okay, so if you go to a website and it doesn't work, you can type your website in there and it will tell you if it's down for everyone or just you. So that way you know if it's your network or if it's the internet that's working. It's really nice when it just works because sometimes you run into that, right? Okay, and then Dropbox. Everybody knows about Dropbox. Online storage, free for somebody makes integrates across platforms. Twitter and social media privately lets you email private messages to your Twitter friends in an untrackable way. So if you want to make a conversation and you don't want Twitter to know about it and put it in the Twitter search feed, you can use privately and you can add that to eight people at a time. Post-Post is an overlay for Twitter search so it actually lets you use Boolean search terms and digs a little deeper into the coding of the site to let you get better results back and just using the regular Twitter search. Visify gives you an infographic of yourself. It takes all of the stuff you do out there on the internet and it makes an infographic of you. So it shows you how many friends you have, it shows you what things you talk about the most, it gives you a really, really nice breakdown of what you've mentioned. I went in and looked at it and I kind of talked about ice cream way more than I did personally. Seriously, I get raced down. It's really neat to go and plug your name in there and let me have a sip of it, okay. And then TrendsMap is a GIS overlay for Twitter. So if you want to know what the kids are talking about in your geographic location, you can go to, I'm not going to open it because it takes a long time, but it overlays whatever location you are and it shows you what's trending in that particular area. Okay, so if you want to look at just your area rather than the entire world, TrendsMap will tell you what's there. Just for fun and totally weird, I've got like two minutes left, so I have to go really fast. iVoodoo lets you make voodoo dolls and you can share them. So if you have a really bad day at work and you want to share voodoo doll with your staff, you can send an ever-told voodoo doll out and everybody can stab it with pins or put it under for them. Bag Check is one of my favorite things about social media, which is the fact that we overshare to the point where we're a little bit crazy, right? Bag Check lets you make your own list or share pictures of all the stuff that you have. It started off as like a packing thing, but like now you can see like, here's baby stuff that dads must have or things I don't miss about babies or you know, kids things, say, or baby gear, but this is all babies. There's a golf one, right? But that's all it is. Like, people take pictures of their stuff and like put them on the internet for them to know anything, right? But if you need a list and you say, what do I need for my baby for the first three months? You can go here and take a look. Rent and Pee is actually just an app. Rent and Pee tells you the best time to get up and pee during a movie. Three minutes, two hours, and 40 minutes long. And I don't want to pee there when Pepperpots gets killed, so I need to tell him when I tuck it up. Not that she thinks no, I don't know. It'll actually give you a little buzz in your pocket to tell you, okay, you got this, there we go. Oh my God, how useful is that? The places I poop actually let you log all of the GIS locations that you have gone to the map for. So, like, it also is a map that lets you, a map that lets you tag where you've been, but it just doesn't, it's sort of a tongue-in-cheek way. And then know your meme and meme generator. We all know memes are all over the place, but if you want to know why something was created or when, know your meme is actually like encyclopedia for memes. So it's very nice. And then meme generator is a meme generator. So if you want to make your own insanity wolf or you want to make your own like Trumpet baby, you can go on to meme generator and it'll let you make your own. Mind Bloom is a mindfulness app that will remind you to be nice to people. So if you have a, oh, it's off my head. So if you have a problem being nice to people or if you want to be reminded, it'll send you a little alerts on your phone or I can remind you to say remember to breathe today. And sometimes you do that, so it's really fun. And then bakealicious is my favorite thing ever and this is how we're gonna end. Bakealicious allows you to put bacon on any webpage. So basically, you put your link in there and it just puts a big old piece of it in on top of the content of the page. There is another one that lets you do that that's called MISPE, M-I-Z-P-E-E. Like I don't just do this, but I don't look up back room apps. And then it's like a, oh yeah, right now. But that actually does, it's like helping you find a clean public toilet, right? So that's kind of MISPE, M-I-Z-P-E-E. Helps you find a clean public toilet near where you are. Anything else? So I know how to talk, yes, way in the back. I was just had a question, and then it was, how well does it do actually searching for visual things? Like frequently I have people come into the library and say something like, oh, I saw this sign or I saw this Asian language and I don't know what it is. It doesn't. Okay. Use Google Goggles or Google. Now it doesn't, it's a traditional web search, it just does it in a visual way. So it doesn't really look for images. Sorry. Does anybody know anything really good that works for images? Anybody want to share? No, I'm getting lots of head shakes. Like there's an iPhone and Android app that actually let you take pictures of those of Google search that works fairly well. But if you're on a weird color, a lot of times it'll focus on the color rather than the content of the picture. And this is, like I pride myself on being that person that somebody says, I need something that tells me where there's a clean bathroom. And I will say, oh, I read about that. So if you guys have weird ones, you can come up and try to stump me. I do use for living to be here. All right. Thank you guys so much for each of us. My pleasure. And then at 10.30 is our 30 tips in 30 minutes. A couple of things that you could do, you could go to the art gallery, which has an art exhibit of consumed. And the other thing is Meredith is down in the edge. The 3D printer is running. It's making something as we speak. So if you want to see it working, now's a good time to go. And all of the handouts links will be on the website. So I think.