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October 17, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
This past week I was honored to host a very special Colloquium at Rutgers School of Information and Communication. Tough Times–Troubled Choices gathered together: Scott Bonner, Library Director of the Ferguson, Missouri Public Library and Carla Hayden, Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as Rutgers’ own Nancy […]
October 16, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
Developed by Minnesota high school social studies teacher Eric Nelson, Fantasy Geopolitics is an easy, fun and social way to get learners thinking about our flattened world. Nelson began the game in 2009 as a strategy to engage his own students at North Lakes Charter School. Leveraging the popularity and competition of fantasy sports, this […]
October 12, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
So, what would happen if Pinterest and Symbaloo and Blendspace had a baby? Well, it might look a little like PopBoardz, one of my new favorite options for personal curation and presentation. PopBoardz allows you to organize the content you need and easily present from your iPad, iPhone or Mac desktop. For educators, it can […]
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October 6, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve been to nearly all of them, but for me, this year’s 11th Annual SLJ Leadership Summit may have been the best ever. The speakers were inspiring. The crowd buzzed with energy. The panels were engaging and interactive. The mix of practitioners included a wide range of ages. A youth presence was obvious! When SLJ […]
October 5, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
Once again, the Rutgers University Master of Information Program and The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) sponsor a day celebrating our profession! Join us on Monday, October 19th 2015 from 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT /1:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT for Teacher Librarian Day A Library 2.015 pre-conference, this open, online, […]
October 2, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
If you read this blog at all, you know I am a fan of Katherine Schulten’s posts for the New York Times Learning Network. This morning she outdid herself with a round-up of resources entitled: Skills and Strategies|Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources, in honor of News Engagement Day, coming up […]
October 2, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
Each year Jane Hart does some serious crowd-sourcing. Earlier this week, she released her 9th annual Top 100 Tools for Learning. Each year Jane’s list becomes a little checklist for me, actually a kind of shopping list. I enjoy watching the trends and seeing what’s hot. To create the list, Jane surveyed more than 2,000 […]
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