Cool+Tools

===What do you realistically plan to embrace and utilize in the school year ahead? Let's each select a "Top #3 that will become part of your vocabulary, your outreach, your practice. Add your three to the list and place your name above your list. This can be a work in progress. ===

**Suzanne Smith**
1. **[|iSafe]** -- Internet Safety. Our staff, students, and parents could use a refresher as could I. The many features and materials make this a robust tool for emphasizing the "rules of the road" while online. 2. **[|TRAILS]** -- Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills. A guide to developing some type of survey of students' skills and awareness. 3. [|**MovieMake**r] and **[|The Flip Camera]** -- These tools are at my disposal but I haven't taken the time to learn how to use them. My vision is to create library orientation videos, information literacy video tips, and work with teachers and students so they can adopt these tools for teaching and learning.

Dave Reaser

 * 1) [|Tilt]- Texas Information Literacy Tutorial. As much as I mocked the graphics of the "Super Awesome Version" I will definitely use the selection module (module 1) just to foster some non-Google thinking.
 * 2) [|Noodle Tools] - If my students will be using services like RefWorks in college, I need to show them how to use this tool first. Even if I need to pay for the single eacher version out of pocket.
 * 3) [|Delicious]- I've used delicious in other classes, but I might finally be "getting it". Too often our English Department feels we don't share enough, or have time to collaborate. Social bookmarking might be the answer.


 * Abby Shubert**
 * 1) [|RefWorks] - I can definitely see myself using this tool to organize my resources for my EPP.
 * 2) YouTube Ripping - I will probably use this to back up some of the youtube videos I use in my classroom.
 * 3) [|Del.icio.us] - I have seen this in other classes, but I have never used it. I like the social element of the tool, especially when I know a bunch of people here at UD who spend more time and effort that I can link to and they can keep me on track.