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January 20, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
I am adding Edcanvas to my toolkit for curating, flipping, and presenting. The flexible platform allows teachers and students to organize and share teaching and learning materials, or their research products, in the form of a attractive visual grids composed of tiles. Pick a topic, choose a theme (tile layout) and create a canvas by […]
January 16, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
The mission of Wikivoyage is to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable worldwide travel guide. Wikivoyage, the new collaborative travel guide project, launched yesterday with around 25,000 articles. According to the project’s Welcome Page, the goals and the audience for this multilingual space built on user-generated content are different from those of the its […]
January 15, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
Serious about search? Wanna put your tactical talents to test? If so, register now for the Advanced Power Searching with Google Course, hosted by Google senior research scientist, Dan Russell. The course begins on January 23rd and runs through February 8th. Course materials will be released in two batches: Challenges 1-6 and Assignment 1: Wednesday, January […]
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January 15, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve said it before, but last night was further proof of the power of our growing TL network. The live Monday night twitter chat (#tlchat) we began back in September, ran on both Twitter and Google+ Hangouts last night. And our intrepid team managed and archived both platforms. The topic was: Get Those Books Moving: […]
January 12, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
The wonderful teacher librarians of the Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) recently released the five-minute video, Teacher Librarians at the Heart of Student Learning. The video, partially funded by Mackin, is designed to present school libraries and teacher librarians as a vital resource for student learning and to highlight the essential role teacher librarians play […]
January 11, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
So, imagine if every video we that watched on the Web worked like the Web–completely remixable, linked to its source content, interactive for everyone who used it. I think Popcorn could change the way we tell stories on the Web and the way we understand the world we live in. Ryan Merkley, Mozilla’s Chief […]
January 9, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
I was about to write an alert about several of the interesting new Pew Internet & American Life Project studies, when I discovered that it is now easier to discover those studies. The Pew Project recently added a Libraries page to their site, gathering research especially relevant to our community, as well as updates from […]
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