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__**The School Librarian’s Association of Western New York ** __Spring Sharing Conference 2009 Spring Sharing Conference  Saturday, March 21, 2009 Clarence High School  media type="youtube" key="mShCPwchGqc" height="405" width="500"    Web 2.0 - Shift Happens..... and happens.............. and probably will not stop happening! The question is //"how can we use these applications effectively to locate the information that we seek?"//   //** Advanced Searches **//// A process to focus a search for specific information that is set up in the search parameters//. // We need to develop effective search practices and find the applications that work best for for us. // >>>>
 * // Search engines - google, yahoo, ask, etc.  //
 * // Make use of advanced search techniques  //
 * // [|google advanced search]  //
 *   //  [|GAS help]  //
 * // [|google book search]  //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">// [|google advanced scholar search]  //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">// [|other google searches] //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 110%;">//   [|List and Review of search engines]//

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<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">**Social Bookmarking** This is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, share, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet //.

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Three advantages of social bookmarking: // <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> //<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">7 Things you should know about..... <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|social bookmarking] // <span class="wiki_link_ext"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">  // Social Bookmarking sites: [|delicious], [|digg], [|Yahoo!Buzz], [|Technorati], [|StumbleUpon]
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Access to your favorites from any computer, any place in the world //
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Search contributors favorites - others have saved what was important to that search topic //
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Create connections that brings information to your computer //

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**RSS feeds** //  //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. (from [|What is RSS?]) //<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="wiki_link_ext"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;"> // RSS Applications: //
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="wiki_link_ext"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">// [|Bloglines]  //
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="wiki_link_ext"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">// [|google reader]  //
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="wiki_link_ext"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">     //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|NewzCrawler] //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="wiki_link_ext"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 162%; text-align: left; display: block;">     //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> [|About.com] Top 10 Windows RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators //

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