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Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Karen Jensen, MLS
July 23, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
My favorite third party solutions for e-publishing include Issuu, FlipSnack, and ePubBud for kiddos. But, if you or your students do any serious writing using Google Docs, you’ve probably longed for an instant strategy for sharing your text masterpieces as ebooks. Liber.io, just out of private beta, may be a serious answer. The program allows […]
July 20, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
We take for granted that we can interact with text, but up until recently it’s been a challenge to interact (read/write/talk) with media. I last looked at tools for annotating and interacting with video more than a year ago. The field has changed a bit. Why interact with video? Being able to interact with video […]
July 15, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Lately when I think about how I am going to accomplish a digital task, I find that I automatically consider the task as a creative process, a process that makes me dig into my digital toolkit or examine my digital palette, usually more than once, to discover new synergies. I’ve come to discover what I’ve […]
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July 11, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
In the past couple of weeks I’ve come across a couple of videos that refreshingly reaffirm the importance of girls’ voice and what beauty is really about. In case you missed them . . . Twenty-year-old Nashville songwriter Meghan Trainer creates a pastel universe that is all about acceptance and positive body image in her […]
July 8, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
One of the most versatile and easiest-to-use platforms I’ve used over the past several years is ThingLink. I’ve used the interactive poster tagging tool to create and embed media-rich image maps, to annotate and evaluate the claims infographics make, as a portfolio and as a curation tool. This summer, educator, consultant and ThingLink Education Community Manager, […]
July 5, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Update: I want to thank developer, Bill Youngdahl, for so quickly responding to my suggestions for templates for schools! I am a huge fan of stickynote tools for collaboration and reflection. I am particularly devoted to Padlet. I love its ease of use, embedability, the fact that no registration is necessary. But for some purposes, […]
July 2, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
When you are lucky enough to travel and visit with librarians all over the world, you realize the power and the talents of our community. One thing is clear to me: as librarians, we haven’t yet leveraged our true power as global connectors. Lately I’ve been thinking about our yet-to-be-realized opportunities and how we might […]
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