Thing 22: What did I learn today?

Here is a list of resources I plan to show students, show staff, and/or use personally:

ELM is a source that is already on our school's homepage, but it deserves to be highlighted to students and staff.
NetLibrary is another source that is great because it keeps track of where you get your information.
BigHugeLabs will be great for creating motivators for student and staff use.
Google Desktop will be another source for documents and spreadsheets, especially for collaboration with staff.
Crazyegg might be used for our school website, at least to see if anyone is actually looking at it!
Flickr will be very useful for storing and finding photos, and Picnik for modifying those photos.
WorldCat and LibraryThing will be good resources.
My tada list has already been started and Continuing to Learn about 2.0 will be added.
OPAL and WebJunction will be used for professional development, as well as podcasts from Education Podcast Network.

While I am currently not a fan of social networking, I do see the value and don't doubt that someday it will be part of my repertoire. For now I am extremely happy to focus on creating a website and blog to use for work. I will definitely keep this blog and all of the resources that I can refer back to, so my list of tools will continue to grow. I may not be a cyber-librarian yet, but at least I have the bug now. The key will be to try to keep up with all of the new things coming down the road. There are other media specialists in my district that have participated in 23 Things, so when we routinely meet we will be able to share how we've used any of these resources, and review and explore new tools.