 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. Yes, we are a webinar. You can call us that. We will not be offended. We embrace our webinar-ness. That's a word I made up. And we do the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. However, if you are unable to join us on Wednesday in the same mornings, that's fine. You can always go to our website and watch any of our recordings. They are all available there going back to the beginning of the show. And you can just watch things there that you haven't been able to join us with, join us on Wednesdays. The show, both live show and recorded show, are free and open to anyone to watch. So feel free to share with any of your friends and colleagues, too, any of our shows that are out there. We do a mixture of things here. Many training sessions, videos, trainings, book reviews, interviews, basically anything library-related, we will have it on the show. We do bring in guest speakers sometimes, and we do have a Nebraska Library Commission staff do presentations sometimes. And this morning, we have me. I'm the host of the show, and I'm doing presentation this week. We don't have a guest with us. So I am your host and presenter today, doing double-duty. This is a session on 20 cool tools for you and your library. This is a presentation that I did last fall at the Nebraska Library Association on the Meskis School Librarians Association Annual Conference, which is our state conference here in Nebraska. And I did this last year in the fall at our state conference and decided that it would be a good idea to also put it here on the show to get the information out to anyone who couldn't attend the conference. And just to get it out there, I'm recorded for posterity. So we have a lot of things in the session. I said 20 tools that I'm going to go through in the next hour. All of them are free. All of them have free options available for them. Some also have paid options that I'll mention sometimes, so you can get some more features or a higher level of access and more things that you can do with them on some of them. But every single thing that I do have on here in the presentation does have something free that you don't have to pay anything for. Most times, they're also very easy things, not requiring downloads or anything really major as far as installing software or programs or anything. The list I'm going here is just alphabetical. So these are the best ones, at least the worst ones. They're not categorized in anything. I just said an alphabetical as an A to Z thing just because it was a simple way to do it. Also, you won't see any of the URLs up here on the screen. Don't try and scribble them down while I'm going through. All the links have been collected into our delicious account, as we do here at the Library Commission every week for Encompass Live. So you can get all the links afterwards in one URL that actually have on the last slide. And when the recording goes up, all the links will be available there as well so you'll be able to get them that way. So don't try and scribble down any URLs. Just maybe information about how you might want to use these. So with that introduction, I think we're ready to go to our first cool tool. Animoto is the first one we have. There we go, Animoto. This is one that I know I've seen some libraries use and some people have used it before. This is an online video creation tool. It's web-based completely, so you don't have to download any software or install anything special to use it, no sorts of video software. It does have mobile apps for your Android and iPhone, so you can use those to create them. There is a pay account if you want to pay, but there is also a free for educators account as well. So look for that in the links that I have afterwards. So you can, if you're using it for classroom use as a teacher, or a teacher librarian, there's a free version, there's a pay version, and then a special free educators account that gets you even more features without having to pay extra. To create a video, you just upload your own video clips, your own photos. They have pre-made templates that you can choose to put them into. They have music in a library of songs that they have licensed especially for this, so all the songs are legal and okay to use. And add some captions, anything you want to on it, tweak it, and you're done. When you're done with it, you can download the video if you want to on your own computer. You can embed it into any website or blog post that you want, and then they've got options for sharing it on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, any of all sorts of other social networking sites that you might use. And this is one that was done, and I'm gonna show you an example of one of these, really cool one here. This is the Richmond Elementary School in Vermont, did a tour of their school library. They actually did it as a scavenger hunt. The librarian there, there we go, had them go on a scavenger hunt, give them each areas of the library that they had to go and look at and figure out, and then they give them little flip cams, and they had to do a video explaining an example of here's what these books are and what they're all about, and I'm gonna, let's see over here, the full-size video, show you just what they came up with using this software with the kids in the library. So that's just a little example of what they did. You can see all the animation, and the text coming in and flying in was done using the Animoto software, and then all the video was done by the kids in the library, and then the teacher librarian afterwards put it all together and had this great tour of their library created by the students themselves. So that's Animoto. Next tool is Delicious, which I just mentioned earlier as what we use here at the library commission, social bookmarking site online. You may be bookmarking things in your browser over the years, and you have them available on your computer, but when you go somewhere else, you don't have them anymore. Delicious is one way where you can have them available everywhere. It's all saved online into your online account so you can have things organized and access them anywhere. You can tag them so you know things are under different topics, so you can search for them there, and you can also make things public or private. We have public lists that we do here at the library commission, of course, for things that we're doing for Encompass Live, but if you have a private account, you can make things private. I have my own account where I have certain things that I've tagged that people don't know about because they're from my use only. I didn't need to share them out there. This is just my Delicious. When I did this presentation last year at our State Library Conference, I tagged them in my own personal account, C.J. Burns 42 is my account there, and I tagged them all N-E-B-L-I-B 2013 for Nebraska Library 2013, and then I was able to give that out at the end of my presentation for everyone to go and see everything that I was, all of these different tools that I had in the presentation. So it's great to use if you need to be going to different computers, jumping back and forth, homework, or just different computers in your library and your building, and you need to share things and make sure you have access to all these different websites that you might be wanting to go back to repeatedly. You can use Delicious to be able to do that. Next up, we have Feedly. Feedly is an online RSS feed aggregator. RSS is real, simple syndication. This is a way of being able to track websites that have updates on a regular basis. You, it collects posts from blogs, new sites, web pages, anything that you may follow, may be interested in and want to have something new. On there, you can save them, you'll follow them in here, you'll go into this website, you'll say I want to follow this page and it will let you know any new posts that have been made, updates to the website, whatever. You can then mark the site things read, delete the ones you've already looked at, save some of them in there if you want to, to read later. It's web-based, so there's nothing to also install this thing, but it also has Android and iOS apps that sync up with your web-based account so that you can, if you've read something on your computer, when you go on your phone or on your tablet, it's updated to the same things that you've already read there. And you can also share these things right from within Feedly, on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, anywhere that you might have social networking presences. Things like Google Reader was an RSS feedreager that a lot of people use in the past and unfortunately they, Google chose to no longer have that so people have looked for something as a replacement. Feedly is the one that I use. This is just a screenshot of what I have of Nebraska libraries that I follow, so things going on in Nebraska libraries. And you can see over here on the left-hand side I have links, I have everything categories into different groups and types of things that I'm following. Techie related stuff, Nebraska libraries, commission stuff, general news, anything you want you can categorize it. Okay, there's a question about delicious. I'm not sure I understand the question. Do you have a delicious account to view her delicious account? Oh, do you need to have an account to view it? No, I'm sorry. Okay, do you need to have your own delicious account? Going back to delicious, the social bookmarking site. Do you need to have your own account to view? No, you don't have to have an account. If you make it public, anyone can just go and look at your links that are out there. You don't have to have your own account to be able to view somebody else's links that are there. It's not a private thing like that where you have to be logged in. For example, if you logged into Facebook in order to see anybody's Facebook stuff, no, you do not have to have your own delicious account to view my things that are public or the commissions things that we put out there. So on to the next thing is another video creation tool, GoAnimate. This one's different than the first one where you put in your own videos in Animoto. With GoAnimate, it's all animated, online animated videos. It's all an online service on the website, nothing to download as well. You drag and drop things from a collection of pictures and animations and whatever they have on their website with characters, backgrounds, props, actions. You can import things that make it specific to your library or school, logos, pictures that you want to have in there, anything, maybe spring captures from databases that you're trying to show. It has text to speech technology where you type in your script and then it just puts in some computer generated voices or you can record your own narration and put that over it as well. So you can pick and choose which way you want to do that. And then you can share it in various ways. You can download it and embed it wherever you want to into a website, into a blog post, wherever you need it to be, put it out on YouTube. That's where we put our recordings that we do here at the live from our Incubus live show or all the other different social networks you may be a part of. This is just a picture of the screen for creating one. You can see over here on the left-hand side, you have all the different pictures that you could do and you can use the hand to click and drag it over and then you can end up with an animated, a little animated feature at the end. And I've got one here that we have saved that is nice little cute little one here with elephants having a little conversation about gossiping. Well, hello, Roberta Hippo. How are you? Alex, I am so happy to see you. You will never guess what I just heard. I hate to gossip, but what did you hear? I heard from Johnny who heard from Tina who heard from Joey who heard it from his aunt's cousin that Mary is moving to Canada to a zoo. Oh, wow. Are you sure that it's true? Okay, so that's just a little example of one where they use obviously the text to speech technology they typed in and then these in computer voices came up for it. And this is actually in the end, this is a lesson about what part are primary sources and secondary sources. So does when you get to the end of it, it's not just about gossiping, but I'm actually teaches primary and secondary sources in schools and libraries, kind of cool. Next up, we have Goodreads, which I know many libraries have used. This is a social network all about books and about reading and sharing what you like in books. The core of the website is the database that all books are entered into and then people put in their own reviews and annotations and say things about the books. So there's this huge database. It's all user-generated information in there of people categorizing books and saying what they thought was good, what was bad. You see lots of people sharing their Goodreads updates and what they've been reading on to social networks to see it comes up in Facebook all the time. So and so has read this book, so and so wants to read this book. Somebody has created, has written a view of this particular book. It also has where you can generate lists, reading lists of things and catalogs so you can have collections of things in here. You can use it for book groups so you can have book group discussions. This is the screenshot of the, what they call listopia where they have different lists that people have created and you can add to and you can look at. So you can always see, this is just the one that took the screenshot yesterday. So it's always changing what is the featured lists and what's one of the most activity. Top 25 children's books on Goodreads going back to 1989. Top 100 mysteries and thrillers. So all these things are just user generated. They're tagged so you can search for it by different subjects if you want to however people have tagged the different books. All sorts of different lists here that you can go through and find really good recommendations for books. Next up is infogram. This is our first infographic creator. You've seen things that lots of times in newspapers or on websites they share these infographics. Cool pictures, information, statistics all put into a nice visual display. There are lots of, like I said, lots of news sites use them and lots of reporters but we can do this ourselves as well. Infogram is one that you can use. They've got pre-made templates that you can use. You can add your own text, pictures, up to use data that you might have in a spreadsheet and have that go into the infographic that comes out in the end with all of your specific statistics. So that's really cool and it takes the spreadsheet really nicely and just spits it in. It comes out with this really pretty picture of it all. You can publish it out to your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, embed the HTML code from it into a website, whatever you want to, or you want to share it. This is an example of what I think is a pretty cool infographic that I found a while ago. Explaining what infographic is, using Legos. Take all that data that is maybe confusing. You don't know what it's all about and make it nice and neat and give someone the idea of exactly what it is it's all about. Something cool that they're doing, they're coming up with, you see here, video infographic creator. I just saw this when I went to their site checking it out recently. They have an announcement of your, what's first, video infographic creator and they've got a little video about it. It's not available yet. It's coming soon and it doesn't have any audio on this but I'll just show you. It's very cool, you're basically taking everything that you've done in a static infographic that we usually have a picture of, whatever and have it come out, you enter all your information you see here, the text you want, there's a spreadsheet that they've spit into it and so it makes it into a nice graph and in the end you come up with, it's creating it instead of just a set picture, you have a video of your statistics and your graphics and here it is, there's the, how many people have attended the web and there's a little picture of it looking like this and these are all the kind of things you've seen in those infographics but animated. So keep an eye open for this. As I said, it's coming soon, it's not available yet but I'm gonna be keeping an eye on out and checking it out when it is available. Our next cool tool is Instapaper. Instapaper, this is another free online tool where you can save anything you're looking at on the internet to read later. Maybe you're too busy, you don't have time, you found a cool article, somebody shared something but you don't have time to sit down and read the whole thing right now. So you can save it into Instapaper and then go back and read it when you do have the time. First you do have to install the Instapaper bookmark clip into your browser, sort of have a little button at the top that you can use whenever you need to. And then when you find something you wanna read, you click on the bookmark clip and it saves it and then you can go back later. It does have also Android, iPhone, iPad, Kindle apps so maybe you're on your computer and find a cool link and you save it and then go home and read it later on your Kindle. It's very simple, as you can see here, this is just a screenshot of what it would look like, the website that it came from, the essay and you can go through it, you can like it, print it out, whatever you want to and read it that way. So it's just be able to save things for reading, specifically for reading later. Next thing we have is a really cool website called Instructables. Not sure if you've ever looked at this before, this website specializes in user created do-it-yourself projects. Meaning people just go out there, they've done something neat, they've figured out how to sew something, create something, build something and they put it a step-by-step instructions up here on this website for anyone to follow so they can do it themselves. What's also great about this site is that the users can rate the Instructables for quality so you can see if something is the good one or not so good, they'll comment on it so it does have that kind of a rating quality to it so that you can see which ones you might want to use. There is a free pro membership for teachers to use it for more teaching capabilities and it does have apps that you can use to use it. And you can use almost any topic, imagine what you can think of. Learning Chinese, crafts for story time, knitting. This is one here that I came across called Manly Knits. Knitting is a big, it's very popular in the library world I know, but lots of men are into knitting as well and they've actually got an entire collection of them that they've put together, the Instructables, the how-tos that were done by men or for things you might knit for a man. And another thing that's very cool about this that they have is here's the Manly Knits in the actual site, as you can see here, step by step pictures and instructions on how to do things, but it's also downloadable in this particular one, they've collected, made, put them all into a collection, it's downloadable as an e-book. So if you don't want to just use it off the website, you can download PDF or EPUB version of this and use it on your favorite e-reading device and have this particular collection, Manly Knits, all together on your, whatever device you want to. Doesn't cost anything, the whole site, everything on here is free. So not everything, there's different collections that will be put together as you do the search and see if you find ones that do actually have the e-book option, but when they do, that's really cool for just taking it with you off of the website. Our next tool is also an instructional Khan Academy. You may have seen, I've seen videos on, not videos, commercials on TV about this now. This is, the Khan Academy is a nonprofit website that gives free online instruction, free, they call micro lectures, video tutorials that they post up onto YouTube and are available on their website. They have thousands and thousands of them here on all sorts of different topics. The nonprofit was originally started with grants from the Gates Foundation, Google, and donations from individuals and charitable organizations to get it started. On their website, when you go to it, you'll see it says it is free forever. There's, they have no, they will never charge anything for it. That's the whole point of it is to give free tutorials on all these areas, math, science, humanities, all sorts of different topics. There's lots of video tutorial sites out there, training sites, many of them cost. Some have a few things you can get for free, but if you want more, you've gotta pay a subscription. Khan Academy does not charge anything. They contract with teachers and educators to create these videos, very simple step-by-step exercises to get to learn all these different concepts. And there's also a, what they call the personal learning dashboard. Once you do create an account with them, you can then track your progress. There is statistics that come out and data about your performance to see how you're doing, how you're improving your skills in these different areas, how, maybe what is the next video that you might wanna go to. They have what they call their knowledge map, where you can connect different concepts together. This is just their basic knowledge map where you've got counting to 100, comparing size, and you can see how these things might connect to each other. So if you've done one set of exercises here on comparing numbers through 10, I might agree that you might wanna go to team numbers, and then understanding two-digit numbers and working your way through the concepts. Something that just got announced, I believe last week, NASA has just released and added to the Khan Academy, it partnered with them, and has sections on specifically about space and science and what NASA does. So this was just announced, Greg was looking through all these last week, that they have different areas here now that if you're interested in science and space, NASA mission control, measuring the universe and exploring the universe. All different categories of learning about space, geocentric universe, planets, heliocentric model. They have interactive exercises here. So here's one you have to actually interact with it, in learning about the models of the solar system. Animation about phases of the moon. So this is very cool now that NASA has just partnered with the Khan Academy to create all of this educational training videos that are available for free for anyone. In our next tool, we're halfway through now of our 20 cool tools. This is PictoChart. This is another infographic creation tool just like Infogram that we talked about before. Works a little differently. You choose a theme, upload your stats from your spreadsheets. They've got an editor that you can use. Well, this one is a little different how you use it. It's got this drag and drop functionality where you can just click and drag and things that you might wanna put into your infographic that will come out afterwards. Just like Instapape, or Infogram, you can upload your own photos, your own logos, your library logos, whatever you want. What is also different about this though is different from Infogram as you can export this as an image. So you can download it on your computer as an image that you can put in anything if you wanna put it in a flyer or in a newsletter or something. With Infogram, you just have HTML code that comes out from that for sharing it. So it's basically just an online thing. This one you can do it as an image and you have that drag and drop functionality for it. So it just depends on which way you wanna share things later and which way you wanna play with for creating your infographics. They've got a collection on their website of other users in the graphics so you can see what other people have done and get some ideas. These are just some examples of them that are on their website. So it is another infographic creation tool but with different features. So you might wanna try each one to see which one works best for your purposes and what you are wanting to do with it. Next up we have Pixlr. This is a free, also free online photo editing. Maybe for photos, you'd think to use something like Photoshop, which costs money and does have some great features and whatnot but like I said, it does cost money. You might not be able to afford getting something like that. Pixlr is online and it is free. You can filter things, adjust things, whatever you wanna do for tweaking your photos that you have out there. It has what they call Express and Advanced Editor versions so you can have a basic version depending on your skill level and a more in-depth one for work, if you need to get more creative or you have higher skill level and wanna play even more with your photos. So depending on what kind of editing you wanna do. And also something called Pixlr-O-Matic which is a really cool, a separate third tool that you can use filters, lighting and borders to give your photos a vintage or retro look. So that's just kind of a fun thing to play around with. You can download it onto your computer. You can use it on the web or you can download. There's a Facebook app that you can use when you're in Facebook with your photos that are there. It also has Android and iOS apps. So for pictures that you take with your phone, you can use it to edit those photos as well once you download the app onto your device. And this is just a screenshot of what the different options are. This is a little cat that lives a couple of houses on for me that I took a picture of. And you can see here all the different options you have of what you could do to this photo. Blur, adjust the color, contrast. Oh, if you had teeth, white in your teeth. Red eye reduction, you have the standard. So it's got lots of different, this is just the basic one of the choices that you have. So if you have photos that you need to work on and edit and make some tweaks to it that you wanna make a little funky using some of the filters or the Pixler-O-Matic to make it retro looking. Pixler's a free tool online that you can use it has tons of really good features in it. Next up, we have a readability. This is also another online reading service similar to Instapaper, where you can store the articles you find to read later. However, what it also does is what's important about it is that it turns, takes these articles or web pages or whatever you're finding online and makes them easier to read. Cleans them up, removes any ads or animation or anything that's next to it on the screen there that may be distracting when you're trying to read it and cleans all of that up and is your nice, simple view of just the article that you really wanna read. It's a browser add-on just like Instapaper would be. So you just do a little plug-in and then you have a little button at the top of your browser that will say readability. And whenever you find something that you want to clean up and make it easier to read, you click on that or then you could store it if you want to as well as read later. There's also Android and iOS apps for it as well, just like almost everything now it seems. So you can save and read them later. When you save them into your account, you can then read them later on your phone. Your Kindle has linked to a tablet, whatever you want to do it. And this is what it actually does here. Here's an article from the New York Times. On the left, you can see all the ads and things and some of them might be animated ads and pictures. And once you go through the converting process, you end up with what it looks like on the right, just the article. None of that other stuff that they've put in the margin and the top and the bottom. You get just the article to read. So cleaning up all of that. You may have any questions. You do have any questions throughout this. Just feel free to type them in. I am watching your questions and keeping an eye on them. So let me know if you do. Next up, we have Reddit. You may have heard about this a lot online. This is a social news site, different from the online bookmarking sites. It is users, anyone who wants to in the world can post a news story they found interesting. They can post it on their online once you get an account and share it. Then other users get to vote on the story, making it pure higher or lower on the list of news items based on if they think it's good or not. So in this way, the reading community actually decides what's more interesting or relevant and what's not. Those stories will rise up or lower down on the list. So the community kind of judges what's good and what's bad. There's a lot of interesting things in there. Some controversial things on there. You've got to be careful when you're searching around and using it. But it is pretty cool to see what is the world in general think of these particular stories. What cool things have popped up. Libraries have started using it as well, though. There are communities that are within Reddit called subreddits and there is one specifically for libraries. And I've got the URL linked in our show notes. You can jump just to the one. And all that is is librarians and library related discussions. So if you wanna just jump to things library related, you can go there. If you're looking for other communities, search for them and you might find them as well if there's other topics or anything that you are interested in. Reddit also does, which you maybe have heard about people announcing, they do, they call AMAs. Ask me anything. Barack Obama, the president has done one. Celebrities, writers, all sorts of different people do these things. And they've actually created, did one just recently an experiment where there's a public library edition of an Ask Me Anything. Ask Me Anything is when someone goes on and logs on for a certain time of day, for a certain amount of time, an hour or two. And anyone who wants to can log in and ask this person questions. Type them in. Then through text typing on this website. And as it says, Ask Me Anything. And usually it's pretty much is anything. This is a screenshot here of the Reddit, specifically for libraries. So it says Reddit Libraries at the top. This is the screenshot I took yesterday. And you can see everything here is very library related. And just recently, Innovative had acquired VTLS. So you may be interested in that, depending on which one of those you may own. Judy Bloom. Publishers fighting back against Amazon and the whole hatchet thing going on with that. So just anything library related could be in the library's Reddit. And I think I had here, yes. This is, over here, there we go. There we go. This is when they did the AMA Ask Me Anything public library edition. It was PLA did this as an experiment earlier this year in March. So for about a week in March, they had library directors and library administers come on and anyone who wanted to could ask them questions. And it was moderated by people. This is actually right here at this time was moderated by one of our local people here, Mania Shore up at Omaha Public Library was involved in this and helped moderates during some of the time. And what is great about this, it was not a live event Ask Me Anything on these particular dates, but it's all saved now. You can go there. This is actually right on the website and see the questions that were asked and see the answers that were given. So next up, we have Screencast-O-Matic. This is great for doing teaching, obviously, and showing how to use different websites. It's free online screen recorder. There are lots of services, there's services you can purchase to do this that may cost you an annual fee or something, but this is a free version of it. Instant screen capture video sharing. Basically, whatever you are doing, whatever's happening on your screen, you can use this, you just use the web version of it, have it click on the button and have it just start recording exactly what you're doing. And not only records where you're clicking with your mouse, but also what happens when you click. So does a pop-down menu appear? Does any window open up? Is your cursor positioned in a text box? You can start inputting text. So it's just basically mindlessly saving everything you're doing on your screen. If you have a microphone, you have to record audio along with it so you can describe what you're doing on your screen as you're doing it. And after it's done, you can embed it into a webpage, upload it to YouTube, put any other social media sites you want to, and there's various ways, formats that you can export your recording as, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, whatever it is that you want to use. And here's just a screenshot of one. This is the, actually someone who calls himself the ScreenCastKing, did a readability demo, a demo of readability, the previous resource that I mentioned. And let's see here, I'm going to try to show. There we go. This is his demo using ScreenCastOmatic of readability. You come across on a regular basis web pages, blogs, news stories, might be a little difficult to read the font, sometimes the font's too small, sometimes there's just too much garbage going on on the page, it's all distracting. This page we're using as an example is not too bad. I can read that just fine. What if I wanted to kind of lean back in a chair and I'm not having to squint. I use readability. See up here in the left hand corner, see this little button on my bookmark bar? So that's just the start of his little ScreenCast demo. And you can see everything he was doing scrolling up and down, when his mouse is moving around, you see I have that little circle around it to let you catch your attention to show this is where I'm clicking on next. That's how ScreenCastOmatic can capture just everything you're doing into a video that you can then share to show how to use something, how to use a website, how to navigate the library's website or a certain database. Next up we have Tegzito, I always have to think about how to pronounce that one. This is a word cloud generator. You may have seen different things where they take a bunch of words in terms that have been mentioned in a website or on an article or something and make them into a shape. And then it just visualizes the word frequencies. You can see what kinds of things are more important. Words that appear more often display in a larger font than those that occurred less often. So you can see that indicates the relative importance of the term, meaning they appeared more often in the article or on the webpage, that means they're, ideally that means they are more important. But what you do here is just enter your text either from a document or a website. Choose a shape you want it to fit it into and poof, it recreates your word cloud. And then you can save it as an image so you can import and put it into anything you need to into a document, into a website. It does JPEG or any format that you need. You can also print it out, share it online. All sorts of different things you can do with it. This is one that I just did. Here we go. I took the Nebraska Library Commission website. Just, I actually told it to go to this whole website and collect all the terms from there and make it into the shape of Nebraska. So these are the terms that come up most often on the Nebraska Library Commission website. Everything's like, obviously, Nebraska library librarian. I'm interested to see some of the smaller ones in their advisory internships, young Nebraska accesses down there at the bottom. This was just a pretty simple one thing. Just look at this whole website and make it. And then I picked the color too. Of course, I went with red for Nebraska. And then made it into the shape of Nebraska. So pretty cool. It's just visually add to something to a report, maybe add something to a flyer or something you're promoting and show. This is the kind of things we're doing at this event. Or after an event has happened and you have a report or you have things that people have created, here's based on what we did. This is what was the most important topics that were discussed or that happened at this event. Oh, we do have a question going back to readability. Can you use it for Prezi? Can you use readability for Prezi? I don't think it would be something for that. It's mainly for things like web pages and things like that that are static to make them, like I said, it takes away the ads or sidebar things or extra stuff that's been put onto a website. I'm not sure. I don't think it would do anything with Prezi, which is those animated, the whole presentation is animated. It wouldn't really, I've never tried to use it on a Prezi. I never thought about it for that purpose. But I don't think that's really what it's for. It cleans it up. Embed readability into Prezi. Oh, well, after you have the article that has been cleaned up, embed that into Prezi. Sure, if you have something after, like if you've cleaned up and then saved the article, then yes, I would assume you'd be able to then embed that into Prezi. I'm just guessing. I don't know without my head, but I can't imagine why not. Cause you're gonna have a saved version of that like I showed in the slide that you can then do what you want with. Yep. All right, what's next? Next up, we have a teacher tube. This would be just like YouTube, but specifically for education. Educationally focused, safe venue for sharing instructional videos. As it says here, it was designed specifically for teachers in schools and home learners. Basically this is where it came from, but it's free and open for anyone to use. You don't have to have an account. You have to sign up to use it. They do have options where you can add your own videos and what not to it if you want to and review things, but it is free and open for anyone. The videos are also rated on here. The community members use a rating system to highlight the videos that they find valuable as an educator or as a learner. So from either side. So you can also see which videos might be good for you depending on what you're trying to do. This is just a screenshot of what the main page looks like. They've got some featured videos that are up. You can see how many views they have. Some things that are trending. They also have a search feature. I'm going over here to the actual site live where you can search for any topic that you might want to find a video about. And I just typed in a library because that's what I would do. And got a, let's see, it'll come up here quickly. There we go. Any videos that mention libraries. Here's a library orientation for elementary students. I'm sure it's probably for a particular school. 21st century school library design, proper care of library books. And here's just one, how to take care of library books. And we'll get this running up here. So this is just one did, said if you've bought a book, what you should, how you should take, you could, should use it. When you have it at home. What happens to your library books when you get home? How to take care of your library books when you find Mrs. Stover. Kaylee is excited because she brought home a book that she got to pick out at the library and can't wait to read. But borrowing a library book is a huge responsibility. We must all take care of our library books so they don't get hurt. Let's find out if Kaylee is making good choices when it comes to taking care of her library. So you can see there, it looks very similar to YouTube but like I said, it's all teacher focused, education focused, learning and rated and I know some people, some places schools do have issue with even using YouTube. This is all a safe place to go to if you're looking for educational type videos. So we have a poll service, twit poll. And this is a web based tool that you can use to create surveys that will appear on social media sites, on Twitter, on Facebook, wherever you wanna share. So if you're looking to try to find out what people are interested in, what they might want as a new service, how they felt about the service you have. You can create a poll on here. You have a single question, more than one question. There's a basic, very simple online web form. You just enter it all in. It's all web based, nothing to download or install or do anything like that. Share it online and then get the answers back via your account. You do have to have a Twitter account, it's based off of Twitter to create a poll in the first place. But anyone responding does not have to have one. So you just need to have an account which you may have for yourself or for your school or library already. Use that to create the poll. But then anyone who answering it does not have to have an account. They can just answer it as they want to. And then you get the questions back, the answers back. Afterwards, it can then, you can display it as charts, graphs, which is really nice. So after you get your answers, you can set up this kind of thing. You got bar graph twice here, pie chart, however you want to to show. Afterwards, here is what everyone said and here's what the responses were. So if you're looking for doing a quick poll online, for free, SurveyMonkey is something that you can pay to use, other services like that. This is a one, a very simple, easy way of doing it quick and free and online. Next up, we have yet another infographic creator. Yes, there are three of them in here in the session, but they do do some different things. Has some of all the basic, same basic features that infogram and picto chart with as far as in putting your information, putting your stats in there, creating, having templates, creating everything you want to. The cool thing that visually does is it can actually gather information statistics from your Facebook account or your library's Facebook account or your Twitter account to create a personal infographic about that account. They call the Facebook one your Facebook social life or your Twitter hashtag. If you've maybe had an event and you created a hashtag for it, for example, if ALA has a hashtag for their conference, it's ALA 2014. I'm not sure if that's the right one, but I'm just making it up. You can then say, create an infographic based on those hashtags. And I'll take it, go out there and look at everyone who has done, use that hashtag and create an infographic about it for you. Or you can have it go into your Facebook account where you approve the app to access your account. It pulls statistics off of your Facebook page. You do it for your personal one or you can do it for your libraries and then you can share what they call the Facebook social life, what your Facebook page has been doing. After you've created it, you can download it as an image or a PDF. So you can do whatever you need to it with it and then share it on, of course, all the usual social networking places, share it on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, wherever. You can email a link to it to people. So we'll give you that as well. You can say, hey, check out this cool infographic that I made up about our library's Facebook page. Look at all the cool things we've been doing. Embed code to let you put it onto a website somewhere. And it's not just a place to create infographics. It also is a repository for infographics created by others. So if maybe there's a topic you're interested in, you want some statistics on it, something cool, you can go in there into their database and search for a particular topic and find the infographic that you might wanna share. So they have lots of things there that you can just take and borrow that have been created by users and say, oh, cool, we need to know about this topic and here's the great statistics on it and it's based on this information and these reports and studies and here it is. Here's an example where I just did the Facebook social life of our Encompass Live Facebook page that we have out there. So it tells you that it looks at the performance for the last 30 days. Currently we have 181 fans. In the last 30 days, no one has liked us recently, but that's okay. And then this is just the beginning of this a lot more below this. It didn't all fit on the slide, but this is just based on what people have said in their Facebook profiles. Okay, so you do have to take this with a slight grain of salt. Most of the fans are female, most are 35 to 44 years old and there'd be a whole much more statistics below that. So it's a pretty cool thing to see if you just wanna know what's going on on your Facebook page, maybe just for your own use, but then to share it if it's something that comes out really cool and you wanna show, hey, look, our Facebook page is doing these great things. Next up, we have a We GIF or GIF. Depends on how you decide to pronounce that. This is a free online service which allows you to make simple animated GIFs. That's where little things are kinda jumping around on the screen. I'll show you that in a second. You can create them. You take snapshots from your webcam or upload different pic photos from your digital camera, combine them and into an animation right on the website. You just upload them onto their website. Once again, nothing to download for you. You just upload your things into their site and then it will create a little animation for them. You can email them to people, download, share, make them into avatar, use them for whatever way you might want to. This here you can see is how you upload them. You can see the different pictures you've put in. You can decide, do you wanna set the speed, rotate them, do some special effects on the pictures, whatever it is you might want to do with the tool. See here. This is our list of all of the, I just wanna show you what it looked like. I didn't have this one open. There it is. You can see here is just an example of one. You can see it moving. I'm not sure how well it's, but it just kinda jumps back and forth of the different people. It took multiple pictures of this one site, this location and put it together on a little animated thing. This is the kinda thing that maybe you might see someone showing someone, jumping up and down out of somewhere or popping in and out of a picture, but you can get really creative with it with static photos that you've taken and then make them look a little animated in there. And we are on to Z. This is our final tool. This is number 20. We've made it through all of them. This is Zoho Writer. Zoho is actually a collection of different things that they have out there. They have this software tool, or this word processing program. They have a spreadsheet program. They have an instant messaging program, chatting program, all sorts of different things, but it is free and it's online. So you don't need to download and install or maintain any software. So maybe if you're looking for something to do word processing, but you can't afford or don't have Word, you want something that has a lot of more functionality than just a basic notepad type thing, you could use Zoho's online word processing program. You can share them online with people, just like in Google Docs. If you don't wanna use Google as well, it's something that some people may not prefer not to do. You can share online. You can have multiple users. You can edit it online together. You do need to create an account with Zoho to use it, but once you are in your account, it looks and works just like any traditional word processing program. And here is what it would look like. You can see up here where you have your inserting page set up, all the different cut and crop and choosing your different fonts and everything. All the things you'd ever see in a traditional word processing program you've got all those same functionalities here online. And you can save them, let's go back to the slide here, into Zoho so you can then access them everywhere, which is a nice perk there that you don't have to just save them onto your computer, onto your flash drive and take them, save them into your Zoho account. Then anywhere you are, you can go ahead and get into the document you're working on. And you can also export it in whatever format you need. If you need a Word doc, plain text as an HTML, you can take this document you've created, make it into a web page, make it a PDF right within Zoho. You can do that there as well. So if you're looking for something free online, word processing tool, doesn't require anything to be downloaded and installed in your computer, this would be a great tool for you. Question, can you create something with a video on the WeGift site? I don't know that it would do videos. I am not sure about that. I've only seen using actual static screen, snapshots and pictures. It would take snapshots from your webcam. So if you did up, so it will take individual shots there. The whole point is that it kinda jumps around, not looking like a video in the end, but you can use a video you have and it will grab, I guess you say grab screenshots from it and then use those to create it. So you can upload a video and then it will grab parts of it from there. It won't have a video, a smooth video afterwards. That's not the point of it. But yes, it can grab from your webcam or from just standard static photos. Okay, so that was our last tool number 20, our Zoho writer. Anybody have any questions about any of the tools that I have shared today or anything that you wanna share about any cool tools that you know about that might be similar to these or do some of these things? Type them into the questions section of your GoToWebinar interface. I can share what you have or whoops, I see. Okay, I see, Janet there, I see you've got your hand raised. I've unmuted you, do you have a question? Okay, no problem. Oh yes, we do have a few things coming up. A recommendation from someone, something called .epub is like readability but turns the pages into epub or a movie ebook files. Ah, cool, so if you wanna do something that's more ebook related, .epub. I will add that to our links, write that down so I can get that on here. It's like it's .capitalepub. So, if you're looking for something that will change it and do not just a plain text thing into an epub, that'd be a good resource, thanks. Yep, and as far as a social bookmarking site, I've heard about this one too, that is similar to Delicious. Digo, D-I-I-G-O, similar to Delicious but also allows you to create notes. That's true, Delicious does allow you to add notes as well to the different things. I've done that in some of the ones that I've saved, yeah. I know a lot of people, when Google Reader was a big one that a lot of people used, I used it, I was very upset and as many people were that when Google decided to retire Google Reader, so many people were using and it wasn't really, I don't know. They decided to cancel, get rid of it and a lot of people had to find somewhere else to go. Oh, this access, so as I said, you can do the notes and upload PDFs. Yep, you can do that in Delicious as well, create handouts. Cool. Another reader that's similar to Feedly and Google Reader is Silver Reader. Oh, I've not heard of that one. This person says they switched to it from Feedly and some things are still in development but so far, they like it better than Feedly. Yep, do keep the Feedly OMPL file yet to import things back and forth. That's just great about a lot of these things. When Google Reader was done, you could export out all of your feeds that you were doing and import them into a new one. That's what I did as well. Silver Reader might be another option for people who are looking for something else. Feedly when it first came out also was not, didn't have all the features that you might want when Google Reader first went away. They kind of, I think everyone was taken by surprise but they haven't improved some of their things as well but Silver Reader might be another one to look at as well. Oh, and something else someone mentions, create fun cartoons with powtune.com. Let's see here. So this would be something to do again just like doing an animated video. You could use powtune. It's free and it's awesome, go ahead and do that. Let's see if I can find the, let's see, .epub. Here's the one that was for download any web pages in ebook. There we go. Nice, in the cloud. So there's the .epub.com And we'll add all of these links to our show links afterwards. Let's see what Silver Reader, that's one I have not looked at before. Let's see if it comes up here. Free, it will always be. Cool, so Silver Reader, if that's another one you wanna look at for doing your RSS feeds. Okay, we have one more thing, snap guide that someone has mentioned. What does this do, Julie? Let's see. Oh, how-to guides, so similar to Instructables. But you said that you have to have an iPad to curate them. Okay, so picture instruction guides, nice. All right, so that's good, lots of good ones. All these other ones that were mentioned, I will also add to our show notes. So like I said, Zoho Reader was the last boat tool, but we do have one bonus tool for you. There's one thing that all the tools that I shared do have in common. All the tools that I have told you about, all 20 that I have on here, have all been part of our Nebraska Learns 2.0 program. This is a self-discovery program, which where we share different cool tools or tech sites or things out there once a month. This is part of, started out as one of those traditional 23 things programs. If anyone has participated in those where you have a set number of new tools, learn how to do blogging, learn how to use Twitter, learn how to use Flickr for photos, whatever, in a short period of time, or a specific period of time. And we did start ours this way back in 2009. We did our Nebraska Learns 2.0, our first one, I think it was over 16 weeks, and we had 23 things. After it was done, people were very interested and wanted more, so now we have it as an ongoing resource, learning resource, once a month, a new thing is shared on here. And everything that I've mentioned in this presentation were all things, as we call them, on Nebraska Learns 2.0. So if you wanna learn more about these, you can go onto our website there and see what our current thing is, the one right now for this month in June is NetGalley, where you can get advanced, you can see right there, so advanced reader copies of upcoming books, and check out them. You can read them on there, you can get copies of them, you can do reviews of them. So it's open to, this is a program, anyone who wants to can go onto our site and see our different things that we're sharing here. For Nebraska librarians, all library staff, friends, board members, school media specialists are invited to open, they're open for you to use it. For people looking for continuing education credits or everything that you do, you do earn one CE credit here in Nebraska. If you're from outside of Nebraska, you would want to check in with your continuing education coordinator to see if they would give you credit for doing the tool thing that we've suggested. We talk about it, we give a little exercise and a lesson to give you a way to explore it and learn more about it. So you can check that out. We also do, as you can see here, it talks about a book thing you can see there. Once a month, we give you a book to read. Also, something related to libraries, maybe slightly related to libraries. So you can read a certain book once a month and earn some continuing education credits that way. So if you want to learn more about these or if you want to see what's coming up, check out Nebraska Learners 2.0 and join your library colleagues on learning about all these new internet tools, technologies, websites. You never know what we'll have coming up next time. So that is my contact information there and that is the URL there that you would take down if you wanted to get all of the links that I mentioned today. It will also be included when the recording is sent out to you as well. So if you don't get that written down, that's okay. You'll have the link sent to you. But in our delicious account for the Nebraska Library Commission Reference Department, I've used the tags and Compass Live and cool tools to mark all of these tools that I mentioned today. And like I said, I will add in the ones that people did mention in the question section as well so that you can have a few more extra ones. So anybody have any last minute questions, comments, thoughts before we wrap up for this morning? So that will wrap up today. The show has been recorded. It will be processing today. Should be available later today, maybe tomorrow, depending on how long it takes to process everything. I'm gonna post it up onto our website and I will send you all emails so that you know when it is available. Hope you'll join us next week when our topic is broadband and libraries. We are going to have Connie Hancock and Charlotte Narges from, they're all both from the UNL and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension offices. We're gonna talk about the Nebraska Broadband Initiative, what's going on with that and getting broadband across the state and what's going on with that. So definitely sign up for that with us. 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