A report released this week from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, in partnership with the Family Online Safety Institute, with the support of Cable in the Classroom, explores Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites. Based on seven focus groups with teens and a nationally representative survey of nearly 800 [...]
It was Shannon!
August 19, 2011 By 3 Comments
The article Casting a Wide Net for Mentors appeared on the front page of Tuesday’s USA Today. (Here’s the link to the online version.) The article begins: Julia Albaugh’s high school in Van Meter, Iowa didn’t have a course that would teach her about marketing and public relations. So a librarian in the school helped [...]
Guide for TLs (and on curating digital content)
April 23, 2011 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
INFOdocket and FullTextReports
March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
For newbies: Just Heart the (#) Hashtag!
December 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
Looking back at the past year, when I consider my favorite source for leads for professional learning and growth, Twitter has clearly been my first alert system. It’s the place I go to when I need to take the pulse of what’s going on in the intersection of worlds I belong to. Judging from the [...]
A flake-free future :-(
December 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
There’s no free lunch. Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket. Always back up your work. I should have learned those lessons years ago. But when PageFlakes died and came back and died again over the past couple of weeks, I was devastated. Right now, the site seems most sincerely dead. I loved Pageflakes [...]
CSLA introduces TeenLearning2.0
August 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Once again, the fabulous and irrepressible leaders of the California School Library Association offer us all a little gift to use with learners this coming school year. Teen Learning 2.0 is an updated social web tutorial, tested with middle school students. TeenLearning 2.0 explains its purpose: This tutorial is designed so that you can learn [...]
On digital publishing (chapter 2)
July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a recent post I shared a few new options for student book creation. Another strategy for publishing is a very simple one, one that allows us to take documents originally published quietly in traditional formats–Word, PowerPoint, PDF, XLS–into more dynamic, more polished, flippable, zoomable, scalable, and embeddable Web publications. Most reproduce the feeling of [...]
Paper.li
June 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’ll admit it. I am a Twitter junkie. No surprise. Despite my lists and all my third party apps, my stream is a bear to keep on top of. I’ve been playing with yet another third party app and I like it. paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. [...]
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