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Good Comics for Kids
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May 23, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
unglue (v. t.) 2. To make a digital book free to read and use, worldwide. unglue (v. t.) 4. For an author or publisher, to accept a fixed amount of money from the public for its unlimited use of an ebook. The crowdfunding of books is a new type of cause and it may allow […]
May 20, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
A recent conversation on ALA’s INFOLIT list–By graduation, what should K-12 students know about web search?–inspired me to update a post I did a few years back for eVOYA. I’ll share this letter with my seniors in the next couple of weeks. Congratulations, Dear Senior Class, Secretly, I wish I could go along with you […]
May 18, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
Look for Google’s Knowledge Graph to roll out across all your (US English-speaking) searches –desktop, mobile, and tablet– in the coming days. A couple of days ago, Google Blog announced the new Knowledge Graph feature. It just appeared in my search this morning and it just may be a search game changer. The Google engineers […]
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May 16, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
In addition to a bunch of new fonts and templates, Google Docs just added a convenient Research Tool that automatically appears on the right side of your document and toggles off and on. (If it doesn’t immediately show up, go to the pull-down menu under Tools.) The search bar offers web results, images, quotations, maps, […]
May 16, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
This is simply adorable and inspiring and a reminder that kids, even middle school kids, should have a voice in expressing what they need to learn and grow. Thank you teachers and students at Dowell Middle School in McKinney, Texas; for your charming production–Bookloose!
May 14, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
Thanks to Gary Price of LJ’s infoDOCKET I am exploring the first demonstration release of the Map of Life Project. The project’s ambitious goal is to show the global distribution of all plants and animals. Share this with teachers of science and geography! Map of Life will allow users to see several levels of detail […]
May 12, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
Yesterday was Diversity Day as STHS. One of the projects I was happy to help with was our ESL Stories. We asked our little group of students from Ukraine, China, Tibet, and Korea, to share their personal stories about coming to America. While our initial intent was to create opportunities for our ESL students to […]
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