Teen Librarian Toolbox
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Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Karen Jensen, MLS
Good Comics for Kids
by Brigid Alverson
The Classroom Bookshelf
by Mary Ann Cappiello
August 25, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
I saw it this morning on the Today Show and I cannot get it off my mind. The haunting and graphic (and now viral) public service announcement, produced by a small Welsh police department, shows teenager Cassie texting while driving, responsible for the deaths of at least four others. Yes, it’s hard to watch, but […]
August 22, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
I successfully delayed the work since March, but with a new school year approaching, I had no choice but to update our style guide to reflect the MLA 7th edition updates and avoid confusing students and faculty with any mid-year changes. (You may remember my earlier posts on the matter: MLA Handbook Arrived and You […]
August 19, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
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August 19, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Surchur calls itself the dashboard to right now, or what is hot on the Web. And I right now added it to my students’ searching toolkit as well as their real-time search page (for Twitter). This five-minute video explains Surchur’s features: It seems that we have so many new types of search tools to share […]
August 19, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
In time for the new school year, it just keeps getting better! Steve Muth of my beloved Voicethread shared an exciting press release this morning about Voicethread’s super-cool new features. Make sure you take a look at the new Media Browse and exploit Voicethread’s new relationships with the New York Public Library and Flickr […]
August 16, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
I am a big fan of mind mapping for researching, and brainstorming, and organizing, and problem solving, and visualizing thinking, and communicating knowledge quickly. So when I met WikIT: Mindmapping Wiki, it was love at first sight (actually, that funny kind of love when you discover how much you just don’t know about the other). […]
August 15, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Brief History: TravelPod.com was released in 1997 when it was introduced as the Web’s first site to enable its members to create online travel blogs which revolutionized the way people travel and share their adventures with the world. TravelPod.com remains, as always, a "for the travel community" service. What are people saying about TravelPod? TravelPod […]
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