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The Noun Project, impressively integrated

May 3, 2018 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

The Noun Project and I go way back. It’s been my go-to icon-finder for creating infographics and presentations and for online course building. Launched as a Kickstarter in 2010, the site catalogs a huge array of symbols (over a million!) created by designers around the world. Artists agree to select either a public domain mark or a […]

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Google Docs and Drive Add-ons for CC0 images

February 16, 2018 by Joyce Valenza 2 Comments

If you use Google Docs and Slides to create and communicate, you may be interested in how easy it now is to incorporate free, copyright-friendly images into your projects without having to leave your document to search for them. I was surprised to discover my very favorite image portals were available in the form of […]

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

December 20, 2017 by Joyce Valenza 1 Comment

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary, the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience. However, at each level—middle […]

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Ten Chrome Extensions (and a Google Add-On) too good to miss

July 27, 2017 by Joyce Valenza 4 Comments

Over the course of the past couple of years, I’ve become particularly fond of a few Chrome tools that I consider too good to miss. These would be handy across the board, but especially in Google Classroom and Chromebook environments. Here’s a rundown of nine of my favorite discoveries in no particular order: 1. Google Keep is […]

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HyperDocs and the teacher librarian

April 18, 2017 by Joyce Valenza 2 Comments

The concept of HyperDocs is spreading all over edtech land. HyperDocs are perfect opportunities to grow teacher librarian/ classroom teacher partnerships. A true extension of what TLs do or should be doing in a hyperlinked information landscape, HyperDocs are all about curation and collaboration, instruction based on engaged inquiry, as well as our mission to […]

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Google Slides Q&A and the laser pointer

May 6, 2016 by Joyce Valenza 2 Comments

When you are presenting or teaching, it helps to know what your audience is thinking. A little while back I gathered a little round-up of interactive presentation tools. This week, Google Slides announced a very handy new feature. Slides Q & A allows presenters to accept questions and vote them up or down during a […]

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Orange Slice: Rubrics for docs

December 12, 2015 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

I just discovered Orange Slice, a Google Add-on that offers both teacher and student rubrics. A handy productivity tool, Orange Slice plays nice with Google Classroom and makes it super easy to evaluate student work in Docs. The Orange Slide Teacher Rubric allows teachers to add rubrics to students’ assignments for grading. The Orange Slide […]

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SlidesCarnival: it will make you feel better about templates (and about Slides in general)

October 25, 2015 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

I make lots of presentations and I use presentations as a platform for instruction. For so many reasons, Google Slides is my go-to platform for creating presentations these days: It’s collaborative. I often work on presentations with partners. So do our students. It updates easily and save automatically. I can easily examine revision histories and […]

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Google introduces Voice Typing for Docs (and it transcribes too!)

September 4, 2015 by Joyce Valenza 2 Comments

Hooray! I rely heavy on voice typing for messaging and searching on my phone. I type pretty darn fast, but I talk and think way faster than I type and I just lose ideas before they make the page. Along with several other enhancements (a See New Changes feature and research tools that I will […]

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On searching your drive

December 31, 2014 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

Lately, finding stuff in my Drive has been a lot like finding stuff in my closets. Sure, I’ve created lots of folders to help me. But the problem now is that I have lots of folders. I’ve starred lots of documents too. But the problem is that I’ve starred lots of documents. Sadly, my closets […]

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News, thoughts, and discoveries at the vortex of libraries, literacy, learning, discovery and play. Joyce is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, an edtech Sherpa, and a connector. Her interests include: social media curation, digital/media fluency, transliteracy and youth, online communities of practice, digital storytelling and creativity, youth information-seeking behavior, social networking, online learning, and the evolving role and powers of the teacher-librarian.

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The Noun Project, impressively integrated

Google Docs and Drive Add-ons for CC0 images

Ten Chrome Extensions (and a Google Add-On) too good to miss

HyperDocs and the teacher librarian

Google Slides Q&A and the laser pointer

Orange Slice: Rubrics for docs

SlidesCarnival: it will make you feel better about templates (and about Slides in general)

Google introduces Voice Typing for Docs (and it transcribes too!)

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