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by Betsy Bird
July 22, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
In a recent post I shared a few new options for student book creation. Another strategy for publishing is a very simple one, one that allows us to take documents originally published quietly in traditional formats–Word, PowerPoint, PDF, XLS–into more dynamic, more polished, flippable, zoomable, scalable, and embeddable Web publications. Most reproduce the feeling of […]
July 17, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
At the BLC Conference this week in Boston, David Jakes introduced me to Only Two Clicks and I can’t believe I didn’t discover this three-year-old project earlier. It presents all the sites you plan to share as handy clickable thumbnails on a start page. Here’s the start page I am getting together for a workshop […]
July 15, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Over the past few years, our students have been granted new opportunities to tell and share their own stories. Students who write and publish, hone their communication skills and contribute their emerging creative voices to our world. We can nurture young writers by providing them the tools they need to create. Among the various subsets […]
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July 10, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Frank Baker recently wrote to point me to The Journal of Media Literacy Education. This is one journal that ought to be on all TL’s reading lists and it is one we should bring to the attention of our partner teachers and administrators to inform both our study and our practice. Sponsored by members of the […]
July 9, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I asked Keisa Williams (@keisawilliams) if she'd mind sharing a little about how Elementary Library Routines, that cool new crowd-sourcing wiki I blogged about the other day, got off the ground. Her story reveals the power of our growing tribe to collaborate and empower . . .
July 7, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
The wonderful elementary librarians out there are getting very wiki. Elementary Library Routines is a new space for this particular community of practice to engage in knowledge sharing relating to effective practice. The site explains: This wiki was born from a short Twitter conversation and the admiration of the work of Harry Wong. Please add […]
July 6, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
My Twitter buddies pointed me to Mrs. P’s Magic Library today. Mrs. P. hosts: an award-winning FREE interactive digital storybook destination. Classic children’s stories brought to life by TV star Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P. You may best remember Kathy Kinney as Mimi Bobeck on The Drew Carey Show. Using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube, […]
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