Freepath--a new 2.0 tool

"Freepath--a tool a librarian (and a teacher and a presenter and a student) can love - Every once in a while a new tool makes me almost want to be a PC user. Take Freepath, launched yesterday in public beta." From Joyce Valenza on her blog, Neverendingsearch - read about it here

This looks like a fantastic tool to bring a lot of our web 2.0 tools together and use them easily. I hope I can open it at school! I'll let you know

A Great Teen Library Page

I was doing my usual weekend trolling and reading through my blog roll on Google Reader, catching up with some of you and Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson, when I saw a link to the YALSA blog and a post about Teen Second Life. That lead me to a link to this teen library page, Library Loft PLCMC, from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, home to the original 23 Things tutorial, the basis for our own SLL2.0.

This page is amazing and I want my library page to be like this. Of course, public libraries get to have a presence on Teen Second Life and we can't even look at it at school, but here's hoping. What I think is so important about completing the 23 things in School Library Learning 2.0 is that we are learning what these tools are, how they can be used and discovering new and inspiring ways to use them. It's a whole new world to some of us, but it's a real, current world for all of us right now.