On Monday, December 3rd at 8PM Eastern, TLCafé hosts our 2nd annual Smackdown/Open Mic night. Please plan on visiting or participating! You don’t have to be a librarian to play. We welcome classroom teachers, tech directors, administrators, enthusiastic partners of every persuasion! I’ll be sharing my trend list and some of my favorite discoveries and [...]
MentorMob and me
July 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
One of the new tools I discovered at ISTE was MentorMob, a tool for curating and collaborating on learning playlists. I’ve since been test-driving the heck out of it as I develop the new online course I’ll be adjuncting this fall. Here’s a learning playlist for my Module on credibility. (I’m going to be eliminating [...]
Beeclip EDU: scrapbooking for schools
July 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We’ve used digital scrapbooking tools for creatively exploring the lives of historical events and figures using primary sources, for creating portfolios, and for presenting research projects. But I’ve been on the lookout for a scrapbooking tool that really works for school. The ones we’ve used the past couple of years have been a little clunky, a [...]
Mightybell: a platform for curation, conversation & group learning
July 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mightybell on Vimeo. My network has been buzzing recently about the new social learning space, Mightybell–a place to create groups with friends around what interests you. Launched by Ning co-founder and former CEO Gina Bianchini, Mightybell allows users to get a network up and running and customized (for free) in just a few minutes. Gina [...]
New from AASL: Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
June 24, 2012 By 3 Comments
I am in San Diego for ISTE and I missed the live excitement, but for the fourth year, AASL just announced its Top 25 Websites for Teacher and Learning. These sites were selected because they foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and [...]
YALSA’s Teen Book Finder App (love it!)
June 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
Quick, before the school year ends, share this app with your teens and maybe their parents. Quick, before the school year ends, download this app yourself. You’re going to want to start using the genre search to support readers’ advisory tomorrow!!! YALSA just introduced its Teen Book Finder for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. (An [...]
Quixey and other app finding tools
January 30, 2012 By 1 Comment
I am adding another search engine to my search toolkit. Quixey has been around since 2009, but it’s new to me. The search was designed to solve a problem – millions of apps were being created, but there was no simple way to find them. App discovery was limited to categories, top ten lists, directories [...]
Hooray, we’re mobile! Our new app.
January 24, 2012 By 5 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, I shared my intense desire to become an app. To ensure that our library was a portable and accessible as my learners’ favorite game. Here’s a peek at our first attempt. So, we used a trial version of LibGuides Mobile Site Builder as our platform. (I also played around with [...]
‘Tis the season for lists (and I love it!)
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It begins around Thanksgiving each year. We reflect on what we learned, what we tried, what we loved, what we abandoned. I thought I’d share a few of those early bird lists and a couple of opportunities for you to contribute to the list making yourself! Each year I look forward to Jane Hart’s list. [...]
APPitic: a learning app directory
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I just discovered APPitic, a super cool directory of more than 1300 apps for education, selected by a team of four Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs), who tested the apps with a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings. I love the way this is organized. Browse for relevant learning apps using pull-down [...]
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