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by Brigid Alverson
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September 22, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(‘DHkIMoOUac4C’,400,300); How cool is this? If you wait a minute, you’ll see that you can now read Alice in Wonderland directly on my little blog. I’ve been playing around with creating a collection of fulltext classics on our Virtual Library for a little while now. Today I discovered, we can embed books–available fulltext or previews–from […]
September 20, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
When I began my K12 experience, after several years in other types of libraries, I was surprised to find that some teachers locked their file cabinets. Some of the teachers and teacher-librarians I met were seriously protective of their curriculum and learning activities. They owned their schtick and they weren’t about to share it. Times […]
September 17, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
Which tool should I use? It is a question I hear nearly every day from our teachers. Last year, just around this time, I blogged about our efforts to blog the research process. That worked pretty well for our seniors’ culminating research efforts, their Senior Sem projects. In fact, I thought it worked real well. […]
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September 16, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
Join me and Lisa Perez tonight (9/16) at 8 PM Eastern in Second Life for a discussion: Web 2.0 Technologies and the Library. This discussion is the first of our SIGMS / AASL learning community meetings. We will discuss preferred Web 2.0 and learning – what works, the issues, the librarian’s role. Some questions we […]
September 9, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
In July, I began playing around with gadget/widget-based information portals as alternatives to textbooks. I absolutely love iGoogle and plan to continue to work with our classes as students set up individual information portals, but sometimes a librarian just has to broadcast to the universe and there’s no time to enter the email of every […]
September 8, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
I shared my excitement for GoAnimate in a post earlier this week, but my example was truly feeble. Please take a look at Laura D’Elia’s little masterpiece on what we do to students who lose their books. Thank you, Laura, for sharing the potential! Thank you also for sharing such a positive response to our […]
September 7, 2008 by Joyce Valenza
In our excitement about using media of all sorts in our classrooms, we may not always think about how all our students access and process media. I just received a news release from the Described and Captioned Media Program (administered by the National Association of the Deaf and funded by the US Department of Education). […]
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