Wordle

I have used Wordle before but more as a way of creating something visually out of textual information.

I have considered in the past the use of tag clouds and tagging/folksonomies in info literacy as a way of of creating an interactive exercise which encourages students to assess and evaluate their search terminologies. I thought about using a bookmarking tool like delicious to save an article in and then ask students to access and tag with keywords they feel are appropriate to describe the topic, the tag cloud produced by the keywords could then perhaps be evaluated to see if it is representative of the topic.

I am yet to try this out though.

Image generators - Cool text

Similarly to most other comments regarding Cool Text, I found this to be the least useful and very outdated in style and appearence and reminds me of some of the early luridly coloured websites that you would commonly come across on the web.

Big Huge Labs was quite easy to use and I liked the way you could conect easily to other web services like facebook and flickr, this has potential for repurposing your own work in a number of ways and I think I may well use this again for brightening up blog posts.

Letter James, what I liked about this was the ability to personalise images and again I would use this I feel to add relevancy to the group of users I am addressing in the blog, rather than a generalised image.

Image generators - Big Huge Labs

Image generators - letter james

Creative Commons

Em's 23 things by Emma Mires is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at em23things.blogspot.com.

Flickr

It has taken me longer to do this than I expected, much of the delay seems to be due to difficulties with the yahoo account which I set up a very long time ago and passwords etc had escaped me.

Once I had resolved the yahoo issues then it was fairly straightforwards to upload some pictures, I usually use facebook to share and view pictures with friends.

RSS

I had already signed up for Google reader previously in order to feed relevant built environment updates from other sources into the subject blog.

I too initially needed to remember to login to the Google reader to keep up to speed with all the feeds, however now that I have set iGoogle as my homepage I have added it as a gadget so that it is much easier to check new feeds and filter categories i.e 23things or architectural resources.

I tried both browsing & searching within the reader and also directly adding via sites using RSS icon, personally I found the reader was slightly easier in terms of using within one interface.

I particularly liked this from daily dose of architecture feed, a project site for Mexico Public Library...now that is some serious stacks.