Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Searching in all the right places

Okay, I'll admit it. I've been a Google girl for awhile now. It's been easy and I know how to use it. However, I'm happy to have found Rollyo. I used all of the search groups and found Rollyo to provide the information I was looking for. I got different responses on each of the sites but Rollyo had them sorted in an order I could work with. I'll be using it again in the future.

Photo Generator

I made a couple of Monopoly cards and looked at the magazine covers. I'm not sure I would ever use either of these but it was fun. Maybe I'll need to play a prank on a friend and put their photo on a bodybuilding magazine someday.

Invasion of the Pod People

What a cool deal. I was familiar with podcasts since we have Tumble Books on the Sno Isle website and I've recommended it to quite a few young friends. My daughter doesn't buy Cds anymore, she just downloads the songs she likes from ITunes. I guess I'll be able to do the same which will save me a lot of $$$$. I frequently get home with a CD only to discover I only like the one song.

I also checked out Learn out Loud. I enjoyed the political podcasts.

Overdriving

I'm glad this was an assignment as I have been meaning to download Overdrive for some time. Since I work with children, I checked out the children's stuff and downloaded Anansi. Denzel Washington narrated the story and it was great fun to listen to. I now feel confident in suggesting Overdrive to our patrons and will use it myself too.