Gary Price’s SearchEngineLand post says it’s official: Google’s Wonder Wheel is dead. According to Gary: The spokesperson said that the search tool was removed due to the “initial stage” of the Google site redesign announced earlier this week. The new search interface features a smaller logo and links moved to the top and bottom edges [...]
At ISTE11 everyone is talking about powerful apps for learning. Apps for creating art and music and for publishing. Remarkable apps for special education. And apps for research. Educators here are discussing the powerful role mobile devices and apps can play in student research. But no one is talking about library apps. No one [...]
Holy primary sources! Make sure you add this one to your history and primary source pathfinders! The FBI recently launched The Vault, its new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. New [...]
(It’s that time again. I was thinking about how sad I am going to be to say goodbye to this year’s senior class, and decided to update a piece I first shared in my April 2009 VOYA column.) A letter to my seniors Each spring I watch another class leave me for the university and [...]
Lately I’ve been reading a bit about digital content curation, also referred to as human editorial curation or aggregation. I think we’ve been doing this type of work for a long time in the form of widget-based pathfinders, but now folks seem to be talking about it. In a recent Mashable post, blogger, author, and [...]
Compiled at the Penn Libraries, Historical Newspapers Online is a table listing free online newspaper archives. And, you are going to want to share this list with your history teachers and your serious young historians. Arranged by state, the list is curated by Research and Instructional Services Librarian Nick Okrent, who shares his strategy aggregating [...]
Gary Price alerts me. I’ve been following his work as editor of ResourceShelf for more than ten years Now, he and his scouting and writing partner Shirl Kennedy, continue to feed me tasty information leads, in two new information spaces: INFOdocket and FullTextReports Still shy of two-months old, these prodigious infant sites are engaged in [...]
My practicum student Jenni Stern and I have been playing with ideas for promoting new and traditional skills we think are important. And we’ve been inspired by my good friend Gwyneth Jones’ Comic Life At-A-Glance tutorial posters. Says Jenni: Gwyneth’s posters guide students and teachers to work creatively. Her design is contemporary and eye catching, in [...]
Returning to those Spring semester reflections . . . It’s been around ten years since we launched our school-wide research initiative. A number of us on the faculty felt that we needed a little boost. While I was migrating my pathfinders to LibGuides, I decided to pull together a number of research tools to make [...]
It’s a new semester here in Springfield and I’ve been reflecting again. (This post is kinda connected to the next, so please read on. It will be up soon.) I am a huge fan of free apps for creativity and productivity and dynamic information gathering. No surprise that in this blog I frequently celebrate the [...]
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