• Collection of image generators
• Upload photos from your computer,
Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox
• Add your own text to make magazine
covers, movie posters, motivational
posters, trading cards, etc.
• Download your final image or share via
Flickr or Facebook
• Design comics of yourself and others
• Android, iOS, and Facebook apps
• Status Update, Friend Comic (you
and a friend), Greeting Card
(centered around an event)
• Share to Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr
• SCRENSHOT OF MY DELICIOUS,
AFTER I”VE SAVED ALL THE
LINKS
• Free online polls
• Web-based, Android and iOS support
• Free – Premium features
• Customize color, text, buttons
• Log into account to view results and
close poll
• Share via URL, on social media, or add
poll to a web page with HTML code
• Use Google Earth to create tours of
locations mentioned in books
• Must download Google Earth to your
computer first - http://google.com/earth
• Add pop-ups with photos, notes,
videos
• Free pre-made Google Lit Trips
• YouTube Tutorials
Google Lit Trip: Make Way for Ducklings
• Electronic advance reader copies
(eARCs) of forthcoming books
• Fill in your profile, request titles to
review - publishers use the info in your
profile to approve your requests
• Read the books, provide Feedback to
publishers
• Useful for book selection
• Takes a series of photos and
merges them into a 3D model of the
space
• Good for making a ‘video’ when you
don’t have a video camera
• Use any camera to take pictures,
upload them to Photosynth service
• Saved into your Library
• Share with URL, Embed code, on
• Online tool to remix video, audio and
images to create new video mash-ups
• Drag and drop browser interface
• Import video from YouTube or Vimeo
• Audio from Clyp or Soundcloud
• Add from Google Maps, Flickr,
Wikipedia
• Text pop-ups, annotations and live
URLs
• Online animated video creation
• Free account, Premium and Education
plans
• Characters, backgrounds, props, and text
• Import your library logo and pictures,
Creative Commons Flickr search
• Audio – record your own narration or add
music track from list
• Publish to YouTube for sharing
• Free online ebook, The Power of Cartoon
Marketing
Introducing the Nonfiction Section of the Library
• Create free online games
• Account needed to create a game,
but not to play a game
• Quiz and Multiple Choice
• Share a unique URL to send people
to the website for your game
http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nelearns/
Christa Burns
Special Projects Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
christa.burns@nebraska.gov
800-307-2665
http://delicious.com/cjburns42/neblib2014
http://www.slideshare.net/cjburns

Cool Tools for You and Your Library: NLA/NSLA 2014

  • 2.
    • Collection ofimage generators • Upload photos from your computer, Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox • Add your own text to make magazine covers, movie posters, motivational posters, trading cards, etc. • Download your final image or share via Flickr or Facebook
  • 4.
    • Design comicsof yourself and others • Android, iOS, and Facebook apps • Status Update, Friend Comic (you and a friend), Greeting Card (centered around an event) • Share to Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr
  • 5.
    • SCRENSHOT OFMY DELICIOUS, AFTER I”VE SAVED ALL THE LINKS
  • 6.
    • Free onlinepolls • Web-based, Android and iOS support • Free – Premium features • Customize color, text, buttons • Log into account to view results and close poll • Share via URL, on social media, or add poll to a web page with HTML code
  • 8.
    • Use GoogleEarth to create tours of locations mentioned in books • Must download Google Earth to your computer first - http://google.com/earth • Add pop-ups with photos, notes, videos • Free pre-made Google Lit Trips • YouTube Tutorials
  • 10.
    Google Lit Trip:Make Way for Ducklings
  • 11.
    • Electronic advancereader copies (eARCs) of forthcoming books • Fill in your profile, request titles to review - publishers use the info in your profile to approve your requests • Read the books, provide Feedback to publishers • Useful for book selection
  • 13.
    • Takes aseries of photos and merges them into a 3D model of the space • Good for making a ‘video’ when you don’t have a video camera • Use any camera to take pictures, upload them to Photosynth service • Saved into your Library • Share with URL, Embed code, on
  • 15.
    • Online toolto remix video, audio and images to create new video mash-ups • Drag and drop browser interface • Import video from YouTube or Vimeo • Audio from Clyp or Soundcloud • Add from Google Maps, Flickr, Wikipedia • Text pop-ups, annotations and live URLs
  • 17.
    • Online animatedvideo creation • Free account, Premium and Education plans • Characters, backgrounds, props, and text • Import your library logo and pictures, Creative Commons Flickr search • Audio – record your own narration or add music track from list • Publish to YouTube for sharing • Free online ebook, The Power of Cartoon Marketing
  • 19.
    Introducing the NonfictionSection of the Library
  • 21.
    • Create freeonline games • Account needed to create a game, but not to play a game • Quiz and Multiple Choice • Share a unique URL to send people to the website for your game
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    Christa Burns Special ProjectsLibrarian Nebraska Library Commission [email protected] 800-307-2665 http://delicious.com/cjburns42/neblib2014 http://www.slideshare.net/cjburns

Editor's Notes

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  • #9 http://google.com/earth Tutorials - How to Create a Google Lit Trip - https://www.youtube.com/user/skerness/videos
  • #10 http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html
  • #11 Google Lit Trip: Make Way for Ducklings: http://youtu.be/dgChBO5hyXw
  • #12 https://www.netgalley.com/
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  • #14 https://photosynth.net/preview
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  • #17 https://mariacfromval.makes.org/popcorn/2588
  • #18 http://www.powtoon.com/
  • #19 How to use PowToon: http://youtu.be/AFv8L0z-72c
  • #20 Introducing the Nonfiction Section of the Library - http://youtu.be/dp4B_2LNE_Q
  • #21 http://www.powtoon.com/show/c4KeW5ktXCw/check-out-cheatham-county-public-library/
  • #22 http://www.purposegames.com/
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  • #24 http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nelearns/