All this month, YALSA and ConnectedLearningTV has hosted a series of conversations around teens and the future of school & public libraries, part of the year-long National Forum on Libraries and Teens. The background: YALSA President H. Jack Martin and Crystle Martin, Postdoctoral Researcher for the Connected Learning Research Network, have been moderators the free virtual chats, which will look at the [...]
Networking and the incoming class of 2017
May 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
The deposit checks are in the mail but the college buzz is buzzier than ever. Having survived the arduous college admissions process, our seniors are now taking full advantage of their opportunities to negotiate the social landcape of their newly selected school well before they land on campus in late August. They are so much [...]
The new community-sourced Classroom 2.0 Book
April 21, 2013 By 2 Comments
To celebrate its 5th anniversary the Classroom 2.0 Community (with the help of additional educational networks), recently released the community-sourced Classroom 2.0 The Book. Inspired by and led by community founder, Steve Hargadon, with Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) and Chris Dawson (ZDNet Education), the project’s official deadline for submissions was today, April 21st. In [...]
National Digital Public Library to launch
April 12, 2013 By 2 Comments
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is one of those projects a librarian (and perhaps any other geeky type) dreams of. We’ve been blessed over recent years with access to the resources of so many powerful digital archives. But until now, these efforts existed as silos. We’ve had no infrastructure to aggregate these wonderful [...]
Dealing with dashboard decisions
April 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
iGoogle retires on November 1st and folks who currently rely on it as a dashboard are shopping around for an alternate, cloud-based, personal launch solution. How can you replace those convenient gadgets, feeds, easily accessible bookmarks, useful tools, and pretty backgrounds? Here are a few of the options for us and for our students. A [...]
An interactive video round-up (seven tools to explore)
March 29, 2013 By 3 Comments
Interactive video is a powerful new tool that allows teachers and learners to enhance video they make themselves–as well as the videos they discover on the Web–with text, images, maps, links, and other media. It transform video from static to dynamic, enabling the traditional medium to morph from monologue to conversation, often crowd-sourced style. It [...]
Anatomy of a slam: “there will be poems”
March 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
April is Poetry Month. Last week, just a little early, we hosted our first ever Springfield Slam. The kids from Literary Mag, Gay Straight Alliance, and Gallery Club, who helped me organize the event, assured me, Dr. V, there will be poems. I worried anyway. No need for that. There was a poem or two [...]
Mashing up Passover—or why this year’s Haggadah will be different from . . .
March 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
For those of you out there who are planning a Passover seder about now, you may want to rethink digging up the old wine-stained Haggadah’s (Haggadot?) you store in the dining room hutch. You may want to expand your traditional storytelling repertoire. And you may want to make a little space at your table for [...]
New Zealand: The future of library services to NZ students
March 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
Small Demons: Welcome to the storyverse!
December 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Because these are the details we obsess over. The authors who write them and the readers who read them. They connect us with our stories and connect our stories with each other. And with these connections comes a whole new world of discovery. Valla Vakili’s talk at the Tools of Change Conference. 2/14/12 In his [...]
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