Spice up your Webpage: Web 2.0 Tools Make it Easy
Patty Windsor, Denton ISD

Come explore some great web 2.0 tools you can easily integrate into your webpage. We'll look at Delicious as a new way to organize and display your resource links, Twitter widgets and Social Oomph to schedule tweets, Face Out book jacket widgets, and Gale search widgets. An additional list will be provided for exploration on your own.

 

Websites

 

 

How Your Library May Not Be Using Twitter But Should

 

Shelfari
http://www.shelfari.com/

Book Box
http://www.sharebookbox.com/

ISBN numbers to use for creating a sample book box:

0425182789

0826329780

0066238099

0439425174

9780439265997

Good Reads
http://www.goodreads.com/

Library Thing
http://www.librarything.com/

 

 

Crossword puzzle
Eclipse Crossword - http://www.eclipsecrossword.com
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=260893&C=48910


Word Search
WordSearchMaker - http://www.wordsearchmaker.net
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=261411&C=48910


Custom Google Search
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009322589025648193163%3Axvlyfpfjkv0
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=261369&C=48910


Page Counters
EasyCounter - http://www.easycounter.com
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=261327&C=48910
ClusterMap - http://www.clustrmaps.com
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/site/default.asp


Photo Slide Show
Slide - http://www.slide.com
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=261131&C=48910


Presentations
Slideshare - http://slideshare.net
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=261355&C=48910


Live Video
UStream - http://ustream.tv
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=260984&C=48910


Recorded Video
Embedr - http://embedr.com
Example - http://webacademy5.schoolwires.com/15851011710938867/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=261341&C=48910

 

Several interactive content choices (Word of the Day, Article of the Day, This day in History, Today's birthday, In the News, Quote of the Day, Spelling Bee, Matchup and Hangman) at

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Other examples:

Gale customized search widget

 

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Delicious Tag Cloud

 

 

Shelfari

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

 

 

Good Reads

 

Library Thing

 

 

Widget Box