#11 Library Thing

I have found my favourite application. I LOVE books and belong to a bookclub. We have a list of all of the books we have read as a group and we are always swapping books.This will be fantastic for our organisation and really interesting for us to see if any groups are reading similar books and what they think of them. The only problem now is to find the time to record books we have previously  read!
I can see this being a wonderful resource for children where they can build their own libraries and share with like-minded students.

#10 Online Image Generator

This was fun.

#9 Virtual Reality

I have had a look at some of these Virtual Worlds and I have to say I'm personally not a fan. Throughout his primary years and early secondary, my now 19 year old son spent many hours playing "Runescape" then "Age of Empires". We had many real battles over the time he dedicated to these and I always felt they had an addictive quality. Now the craze is to play "Call of Duty" on the Internet and battle people you know or not! When I was completing my Librarianship by correspondence we had a virtual world where we could meet and we also had an online chat (MOOing).This was about four years ago and I have not had use for those again however if we were to do a virtual tour of an art gallery or a museum with our classes then I could definitely see that gaining their attention.

#8 iGoogle

I have created my own homepage for home on iGoogle and I can see it working for a classroom as well. We currently use a school Intranet comprising of class pages which have been customised to suit the class taught and the units taught but if this wasn't available a customised iGoogle page would be perfect. On my page I have added the weather, book of the day, Google tip of the day, Inspirational quotes, facebook. Google Map, Google Docs and some others. I was amused to see that my children have also been adding things because on closer inspection on the Countdown application I could see that there are only 158days, 13 hours,32 minutes and 34 seconds until my youngest son's birthday!

#5 Google Docs #6 Google Maps #7 Google Books

Google Docs seems to be the answer to the job-share and grade share teacher. As most programs are written in collaboration this application would eliminate much doubling up of work.

Google maps are an interesting application and there now seems to be no excuse for getting lost. Many of us own GPS devices as well as having that application built in to many mobile phones. My children have been using Google Earth for a few years and I have used it in limited ways in the classroom.

Google Books was a fascinating site to visit and one in which I can easily become lost (in the nicest possible way).I accession books in the school library and use SCIS Opac which allows you to learn more about a particular book which is Google books. This is a valuable tool for everyone as you can read, gleen, find part of, explore books without physically having the book.

#4 Web 2.0

As I work in both a classroom and school library I have constantly heard the term Web 2.0 and had a vague idea of the uses of it. I understood it to be a collection of uses for participants to be able to share their information and to be actively involved with the information. The link to "A Brave New World Wide Web" was a fabulous snapshot of some of the opportunities for using these applications. I loved the link to "Inside a Dog" and can see that being a great tool in the library.

#2 Create a blog and and #3 Register

I started off quite well and was feeling pleased with myself that I had created a blog and successfully registered it. After that I worked through the program, bookmarking useful sites but not "blogging". I now have a retrospective reflection of my findings.