SCORE

SCORE: Winning Strategies to Conquer Information Overload Kathy Schrock, Presenter

Kathy presented a whirlwind of possibilities for using technology to help you streamline your information inputs and outputs in order to help you save time.

Email - Take stock for a week or 2, set-up filters and categorize incoming mail, immediately set-up a category of mails that can be instantly deleted, wait a week and check that it works, at end of year move all emails into an OLD file. ***I set up lots of folders to direct my email - I hope this helps alleviated the speed scanning of mass quantities of email that I get***

POP (Post Office Protocol) IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) Don't mix email accounts between POP and IMAP. If you have more than 1 email accoujt use IMAP

New Product - CHUMBY - about $100 always on and information feed is fresh, lots of new widgets to bring in info.

FAXAGE - online faxing

Blogging - always make blog post meaningful

Google Apps for educators - Google Alert - email tells you where your name is being mentioned

Ning - social networking - teacherlibrarian.ning.com or classroom20.com

Twitter - Microblogging - 140 character limit, can block unwanted followers ***I set up my twitter account and need to search for some more to follow*** Edmodo - like twitter

Xmarks - online bookmarking, bookmarks on sync

Remember the Milk - get reminders ***I already started using this today and put on my google homepage as a gadget***

Cloud storage - Glide OS 3.0, store on server, can transcode 250 file formats, www.glidedigital.com

Online file storage - getdropbox.com, good for students

drop.io - asset collection