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January 27, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
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January 26, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve been a fan of WallWisher since I viewed Kelly Hines’ Little Kids, Big Possibilities presentation for K12Online. The super-simple, web-based app allows for a sticky note backchannel that can be sorted and organized and embedded. Yesterday we decided to use it for a content analysis activity. In a primary source activity, our US History […]
January 25, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
NBC will broadcast the Vancouver winter games from February 12th through the 28th. And Science of the Olympic Winter Games, the product of a collaboration between NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation, is a timely and engaging gift to science teachers. Narrated by NBC News anchor Lester Holt, the 16-part, free video series examines […]
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January 25, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Yippee! We are about to launch our monthly online get-togethers. Try to save the first Monday of each month for live, web-based chat. For starters, join us Monday, February 1, at 8 PM Eastern for the first of our TL Virtual Cafe events. Our first chat, What is in a Name will be hosted by […]
January 24, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
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January 21, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Jane Harthttp://www.c4lpt.co.uk/140university/ Launched 18 January 2010 Extend your education via Twitter or Facebook Twitter and Facebook are great places to discover and share new things. 140 University provides you with classes in the form of knowledge nuggets and related links to web pages, videos, etc – in less than 140 characters. Explore the classes that […]
January 20, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
In my last post, I discussed EBSCO’s announcement of its newly exclusive content, and my budget concerns, and the strange fact that most of these magazines currently provide their content for free, and the fact that we can now create our own search engines using Google Custom search. Here is the result of my first-try […]
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