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Present an unsession @the AASL Bloggers’ Cafe!
Planning to attend AASL Charlotte? Have something amazing to share, but for whatever reason, you are not scheduled for a concurrent session? Consider participating in the unconference side of Conference. Consider signing up to share your coolest stuff at our Bloggers’ Café! Use the time to: Host an informal discussion on a hot topic Create […]
Widget Alert: ProQuest K12
Yesterday, my friend Jim Ulsh at ProQuest shared the new widgets for the ProQuest K12 products. At this point, you can grab search widgets for eLibrary and CultureGrams (World Edition Map Widget). SIRS widgets are coming soon. The widget builder offers a pull-down menu to help you build a customized search box based on learner […]
LAN Party on Saturday (You’re invited to the first live event of K12Online)
I am thrilled to be participating and playing a larger role in the K12Online Conference this year. The free, online conference is open to educators all over the world who are interested in using the new tools of the ReadWrite Web with learners, and to improve their own professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled […]
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14 Ways K-12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media
(I thought I’d share this article, just cross posted @TechLEARNING.com) This is the best time in history to be a teacher-librarian. Major shifts in our information and communication landscapes present new opportunities for librarians to teach and lead in areas that were always considered part of their role, helping learners of all ages effectively use, […]
Deconstructing the new interface
A number of people asked exactly how I put together our new interface. Though I really resist sharing this site as a model–it is still very much a messy work in progress–I do think it may be valuable to share what I learned as I built it. The really important stuff: I learned two critical […]
SafeShareTV and Quitetube (for noise-free portal video)
If you love using YouTube videos for learning and . . . you are occasionally embarrassed by unexpected comments and related videos you want to share a clip of a longer video and don’t have the time to bring that video into editing software to chop . . . you’ll likely find SafeShareTV a very […]
Wordle genre signs (and authors-I-like signs)
I’ve been playing with Wordle for some time now. I found it useful for Dewey signs, among many other things. Cathy Jo Nelson wrote a lovely piece on it for the July 1st issue of this journal. This week I was thinking of what kind of cool activity I could give to Caroline, our new […]
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