Unit Two: NETS-S and Lino

This week our class explored the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S), and held our discussion through utilizing this very innovative web application tool, titled Lino.  While the discussion itself was incredible, I am instead choosing to dedicate my blog posting for this week toward Lino—which is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas and photos anywhere on an online web canvas.  It helps people connect and communicate in a really rather adorable and efficient format; this is exactly how I like my web application tools!

In a way, the tool itself sort of reminds me of some kind of hybrid among Blackboard discussion, Prezi and Pinterest.  Lino is basically a giant cork board that anyone with a link can provide “sticky note” commentaries onto.  Beyond the unique (and colorful!) discussion we had as a class, I also learned that Lino can be utilized for myriad other tasks, including:

• ·         Free layout of your pictures and movies
• ·         Send emails and notes online
• ·         Remembering special dates and deadlines
• ·         Use “stickies” to share files among friends and colleagues
• ·         Use as a hand tool for meetings
• ·         Share ideas with texts and pictures
• ·         Use from your smartphone!

I could see a library benefiting from this site—or any educational environment.  I know that at the library where I work (Novi Public Library), following children book discussions the librarians often put together Prezi presentation webs for the children to have access to the information discussed.  I feel like venturing out to other sites such as Lino—a site providing similar aesthetics and provisions—a librarian can expose more instructional technological applications onto people. J  As librarians, we have a responsibility to be pioneers of technology; what better way than to expose new technological tools frequently and to diverse audiences!  With that said though, I do recognize that the aesthetics could potentially become visually confusing with a lot of people posting.  Surely if we can figure out Pinterest though, we can figure out just about anything.