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December 30, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Looking back at the past year, when I consider my favorite source for leads for professional learning and growth, Twitter has clearly been my first alert system. It’s the place I go to when I need to take the pulse of what’s going on in the intersection of worlds I belong to. Judging from the […]
December 28, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Holy infographics! As someone who remembers messing around with those huge Statistical Abstracts volumes and later the PDFs available by our Census Bureau, I am blown away with the easy data display possibilities presented by the New York Times’ research tool, Mapping America! Students and teachers can now access and manipulate local Census data, based […]
December 27, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Recently, I got an invitation to the alpha release of Qwiki. This multimedia search tool is a bit different from the others. Here’s a Qwiki profile of John Lennon: Qwiki – John Lennon from Cédric Bellenger on Vimeo. The searcher’s query is answered with an interactive Web collage of relevant images, video, a text essay, […]
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December 26, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Around this time of year, it is customary for bloggers to look back at their blogs and come up with a list of highlights. Here’s a recap of low points and highlights and favorite discoveries. In January, I lamented the disappearance of the majority of the databases in our state suite and celebrated the launch […]
December 20, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Castilleja School Library won the 2010 Edublog award last week in the category of best librarian/library blog. I felt awful that I’d never before seen this exemplary blog, a blog that really is the library’s website. (And by the way, don’t miss the also fabulous runners-up: Bright Ideas (yeah, Judith and the Victoria librarians!) and […]
December 18, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
On Thursday, Google previewed Google Body Browser, offering what PC Magazine calls a “Google Earth-like experience for the human body.” Now available in Google Labs, the kinda magical 3-D, layered, interactive, high resolution experience allows users to zoom, pan, rotate, the human body, and to visualize its organs, systems, bones, and muscles. And its searchable! […]
December 15, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I am both a primary source junkie and a social networking junkie and I’m loving the new look at NARA. A NARA blog post from 12/13 explains: You may have noticed that things look a little different on our website today. That’s because the National Archives just received a digital makeover, streamlining our look and […]
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