A Fuse #8 Production
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A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
December 24, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Each year around this time, our halls are filled with college freshmen returning to their old high school to share their stories and visit with old friends (and old teachers). Each year around this time, some very nice students stop by the library to say "hello" to their old librarian. Many share their freshman research […]
December 19, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians’ Internet Index (LII). ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service […]
December 19, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
In the beginning (probably about 15 years ago) there were (at least) two wonderful web directories in the garden. And librarians rejoiced. For years we relied on Internet Public Library and Librarians’ Index to the Internet for their careful organization, their annotations, their lovely pathfinders, their authoriative choices, their fabulously useful updates. They kinda walked […]
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December 18, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
(With apologies to Laura Joffe Numeroff), I’ve been thinking about our the accessibility of affordable equipment, and students’ newly facilitated ability to produce, and the impact of audience, and the kinds of creative efforts that might result. If you give a kid a camera . . . If a kid comes into your library (or […]
December 16, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Just in case you missed it . . Written by CNN journalists and educators, CNN Student News is a commercial-free ten-minute daily news school developed for middle and high school students that was renewed, revamped and relaunched back in November. The companion website pulls together a whole bunch of resources classroom teachers will love: written […]
December 12, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Yeah, yeah. I know. It’s not about the tools. But somehow, every single time I attend a smackdown, I return to school with learning ideas and curricular strategies that stick. As far as I can tell the technology tools smackdowns all started at EduBloggerCon at NECC08, with Vicki Davis (aka coolcatteacher) at the helm. The […]
December 11, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
And here is yet another new Google trick! Earlier this week, Google introduced its real-time search. Searchers will be able to view their social network searches, along with their traditional search results, with the real-time search appearing as a streamed, dynamic scrolling box. The box may be paused and resumed. The Google Blog explains: Our […]
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