Thing # 6 Productivity Tools

I kept trying things.... so here it goes....
ifttt - great concept.  I loved the ideas of "recipes".  I read through some and tried a few out but I think I need to come up with some tasks I need done.  Not quite sure how I would apply it to school.  Now that I know it exists and is quite easy I might go back and put it to work.  I did add when a new books is added to Kindle Top 100 free ebooks that it send me an email but I soon found out it was UK Amazon....not available in the US!  So I stopped those emails!
Evernote - signed up...tried it out....a bit of frustration ensued!  I have a student who saw me using it and claims she loves it so she will be giving me a tutorial this week....hopefully I will learn to love it too!
DROPBOX - love the idea of it especially since I cannot access my work files at home...but it did not want to work at school so I will revisit this when my tech guys figure out what the problem is!
IDoneThis - I thought this was genious!!  Especially the daily email reminders...this will save many trees...I create to do lists on good old fashioned post-it notes!  I thought it would be great to set up my students...to keep them on track with research projects...until the price tag hit me...$30 a year per student...YIKES!
Workflowy - My first impression...I really loved the idea but thought it was almost too simple....lacking some bells & whistles especially after looking at IDoneThis.   I gave it a try and created "to do" lists for work, home, my daughters etc... I am a believer!  It was a great organizer...I start my day opening  it up checking off what I accomplished...add new tasks....awesome!  Not sure that I would use it with my students....still thinking about that!

Thing #5 Social BookMarking & Curation Tools

Category 1:  Social Book Marking   I took a look at both Delicious & Diigo.  Diigo was tough...seemed like there were many more features but I just couldn't spend the time trying to figure out how it worked.  Delicious was much more intuitive.  Loved its easy of use and the fact that it had pinterest clones. I would like to use it with my students...have them set up accounts and collect their research.  I would like to create a new stack of links for them to access...one stop shopping but not sure how to give them access.
Category 2:  Curation   LOVE LOVE LOVE Pinterest....but it only aides in my procrastination!!    I loved the very visual nature of it...a great tool for organizing/planning/designing just about anything!  I did not create my own but have turned into quite the Pinterest Stalker.... I am looking for ways people have incorporated these tools into their libraries/classrooms.
Category 3: Content Aggregators  I have not jumped on the iPad or iPhone bandwagon....I like my old school cell phone....but I did check out Scoop.it.  I find myself going back to it....I love the quick view...very much like browsing a magazine.  Again...time is an issue.  I can't see putting one together myself but I was interested in what everyone else had up there....Now is the time for Libraries