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Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Amanda MacGregor
Good Comics for Kids
by Brigid Alverson
October 20, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Teen Read Week just ended, but the celebration continues. Today, Willow Shields (aka Primrose Everdeen), announced YALSA’s 2014 Teens’ Top Ten titles. This teen choice list engaged Teens’ Top Ten book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country in reading and voting. The selected titles will also be included on the must-have […]
October 17, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
I love playing around with images. I use mock-ups for customized screensavers, posters, signs, presentation slides, for telling digital stories, for visual announcements on websites. I just discovered a cool little tool that will come in handy for our more techie displays. Placeit.net is an image generator that allows you to upload an image, or […]
October 12, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Anchor charts make learning sticky and visible. By presenting visual reminders of what is being taught, they support instruction and reinforce learning, anchoring or holding it in place. Anchor charts are most effective, and most likely to be used, when they are focused and co-created during instruction, with a class engaged in think-alouds or writing, […]
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October 12, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
If you missed Connected Librarian Day on Tuesday, or the super-fabulous fourth annual Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference on Wednesday and Thursday . . . or if you were there and want to relive it or catch up with any sessions you missed . . . . . . it’s archived in all its glory […]
October 9, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
For those of us who are fans and users and builders of Google+ Communities, Googler Dennis Troper just announced a very handy new polling feature for Android and the web. (iOS will be coming very soon.) Polls can now be created from either a personal profile or from a Google+ Community page. You may embed […]
October 5, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve been a fan of Glogster since its beginning back in 2007. A couple of weeks back the Glogster app launched. Built specifically for iPad and for Glogster EDU users, the interface is easy and elegant and allows for simple placement and linking of media objects on an intuitive drag-and-drop Glog canvas. Especially nice is […]
October 4, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Want to convince kids that their creativity and inventive spirit can make a difference? I know of no better way than to share examples of that spirit demonstrated by the winners of this year’s Google Science Fair. On September 22, three young women from Ireland took the Grand Prize for their investigation of the use […]
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