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A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Karen Jensen, MLS
November 19, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Some stuff just seems harder to teach. Some standards seem harder to own. Digital citizenship is a critical element of ISTE’s NETS (standards for students). It is woven throughout AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner. Everyday I live, model, and teach citizenship. But, to be perfectly honest, I haven’t been able to figure out […]
November 14, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Nominations are now open for the 7th annual 2010 Edublogs Awards. Think of this event as an opportunity to celebrate your favorite blogs, but more importantly, as an opportunity to discover and explore outstanding blogs and also tweeters and podcasters and wiki owners and hosts of online communities and media producers you have never heard […]
November 13, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I love you, Buffy J. Hamilton! And I love our network! Earlier this fall I worked with the Special Ed Department on a Kindle roll-out, a project we’ve set up as a formal research project to explore the effect of ereaders on reading motivation. But when we unpacked our own first library Kindles yesterday, a […]
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November 10, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Nora and I were thinking of a way to highlight young adult authors (and a way to use our beautiful purple book cart). Our student readers kept asking for the same favorite names over and over again and we wanted to introduce them to a few new authors. (John Green simply cannot write as fast […]
November 7, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Hooray! SIGMS (our own lovely ISTE special interest group) just announced powerful opportunities for learning and retooling. This month you can meet with one of my mentors (and likely one of yours too), David Loertscher. And you can join in on the exciting, new 1 Tool at a Time series! This first event will cover […]
November 6, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
About a year ago around this time I began thinking of the apps I really wanted to load (metaphorically) on my students’ screens. This semester, I am very blessed to have a brilliant student teacher with me! Nora has also been with us as a parent volunteer. Like all my other student teachers, Nora arrived […]
November 3, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
The Dirksen Congressional Center just launched Congressional Timeline 1.0, making easily available in an attractive, visual format: Major laws — more than 200 examples — passed by Congress from 1933 to the present The partisan composition of each Congress, along with the presidential administration and the congressional leaders The session dates of each Congress Measures […]
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