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November 23, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
For the last couple of years I’ve been experiencing a kind of network building that I never before experienced in my more than thirty years of professional practice. It’s a kind of networking that begins outside of our state and national conferences. But it somehow becomes more obvious, and we may better recognize its importance, […]
November 19, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
It’s absolutely free. You don’t have to travel. And everyone is welcome to attend! There are NO excuses. Please join me and a gathering of so many outstanding educators from around the world at the K12Online Conference. Here are the details: The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative […]
November 17, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Today Google Labs launched a lovely experimental feature called Image Swirl, which builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface. A search on Impressionism reveals 12 large thumbnail stacks of paintings by a variety of Impressionist painters organized by their visual and semantic similarities. […]
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November 17, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Google Sites debuted its templates today, making it easier than ever for anyone to create an attractive web presence. Among the cool features: When you select a template from the new Sites template gallery, your new site will come setup with custom page layouts, links for navigating to each page, embedded gadgets, themes and […]
November 16, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
You’re going to want to play around with Bing’s beautiful, new Visual Search. And so will your students. A directory-type search, still in BETA, Visual Search allows you to search from images that fit into a growing variety of data groupings. It reminds me a bit of the matrix-type search offered by Google Squared. (See […]
November 13, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
Our resource centres should be drivers of teacher and student learning. We cannot afford for our resource centres to be underutilised or bound in a twentieth century learning paradigm. (Great Libraries of Learning) I continue to look for ways to define our revised/refreshed/remixed vision of library to the world. (Please, please scroll way down. I […]
November 11, 2009 by Joyce Valenza
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