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Reflections on using TinyCat and Wix

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Salutations!

For my INFO 5410 Integrated Technologies in Libraries course during Spring 2023, I was tasked with various product reviews and mini-research projects dealing with several aspects of library technology that made me quite happy that I truly need to know out in the real world is the email address of my library’s IT department when something happens in the Reference and/or Children’s departments and not that I have to be fixing such things myself.

Two of the assignments I am most pleased with my work are:

Hopefully my reflections on these two technology products and their usability for those of us in library work who are not IT computer people will be useful.

RLGing,

Sarah Hope

Tiny URL

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Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year! I hope 2015 is starting off wonderfully smooth and plesant for you. One of my most favorite Christmas presents was a fabulous iPad 4, from which I am actually typing this blog post using the Edublogs application! I am sill learning how to use it productively, so future posts will most likely detail any findings that may be of use.

In my last post, I gave you a link to the Google Drive account that contained the words “tiny url.” Now, I did not make that link by myself; I used a great website, as detailed below.

TinyURL.com is a fantastic website for working with URLs. It allows anyone to take a long and complicated URL and shorten it into something easily to type and remember. I believe this has wonderful classroom implications, since the links never expire. For example, if there is a video or website I want students to access at home, I can send them to a link I have generated through TinyURL, rather than having them type in a URL with several unrelated letters and numbers. How simple is that!

Please check out this awesome and free resource at http://tinyurl.com.

Enthusiastically,

Ms. Tyler