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October 24, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I returned home from the SLJ Summit late last night. I had a great time in Chicago. And it would be easy to simply return with fond memories of time spent with old and new friends. The two days were packed with learning experiences and fun. I am still working through that learning and I […]
October 19, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Via Richard Byrne’s lovely presentation Best of the EdTech Web 2010, I discovered Sort Fix. It works as a search tool, a brainstorming tool, and a teaching tool. Sort Fix graphically facilitates search and demonstrates thinking about search refinement. A behind-the- scenes algorithm scans results to identify and present significant keywords. Searchers can grab (or […]
October 18, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I discovered National Archives Experience’s DocsTeach today, thanks to eSchoolNews. My teachers are going to flip. And so will my APUSH gang. Searchable by time period, historical thinking skill, and tool, this new portal helps teachers find, use, and create instruction using more than 3,000 primary sources. I love the open-ended approach to instruction and […]
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October 18, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Back in July 2009, I was fretting about volume of paper catalogs that arrived in our library, lamenting the waste and limited space issues, and brainstorming about a solution in a post-ALA post. I was dreaming of an online resource, a catalog central, that would be there when I needed it, always up to date, […]
October 17, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
A thousand times good day! I discovered Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet from my Diigo in Education group this week and I am in love. This may be one potion to cure the star-crossed relationship some of my students experience with the Bard. I want to take all my Shakespeare with a pinch of Canadian […]
October 13, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
This week Creative Commons launched a new tool designed to improve public discovery of and access to content in the public domain. The new Public Domain Mark allows users to publicly identify and mark works they determine to be free of copyright restrictions. Imagine it. Someday it could be far more easy to determine whether […]
October 12, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Yesterday, once again, it was time for our 12th grade honors Global Studies classes to engage themselves as stakeholders in our ever-morphing Middle East Peace Summit simulation. We updated our lesson and the resource page and watched the classes as they attacked understanding of their roles. But this year it looked different. Instead of focusing […]
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