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A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Amanda MacGregor
November 29, 2017 by Joyce Valenza
The Internet Second Language Collective or iSLCollective.com is a fine example of an online community of practice that will be an immediate and indispensable hit with your ESL/ELL and perhaps many other of your classroom teacher partners and coaches. The English section of the site is now well over one million ESL/EFL language teachers strong. The site […]
March 29, 2017 by Joyce Valenza
Greetings from Computers in Libraries 2017 from which I’ll be sharing a few discoveries. One exciting share from yesterday was the limited release of Unpaywall.org. (The official release date is April 4.) High school librarians and education researchers take note! Installed as a free browser extension for Firefox or Chrome, Unpaywall allows searchers to legally access full-text research papers from its […]
May 20, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Early last month, I wrote about the big news from Getty Images. Last week, Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including in scholarly […]
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April 27, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
As a librarian, I’ve been collecting and curating OER portals for teachers for years now. I think it’s time to stop. OpenEd is doing a far better job. When Adam Blum tried to help his struggling son master standards-aligned academic content with the help of free, online educational videos, he found the current search tools […]
July 16, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
For the growing numbers of us searching for online courses, as well as online educational resources, the portals are quickly growing in both number and size. Finding the best or most relevant content may be a challenge. Sites like Kayak take care of of the would-be traveler with a cross-portal search, but what’s the would-be […]
April 12, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is one of those projects a librarian (and perhaps any other geeky type) dreams of. We’ve been blessed over recent years with access to the resources of so many powerful digital archives. But until now, these efforts existed as silos. We’ve had no infrastructure to aggregate these wonderful […]
March 16, 2013 by Joyce Valenza
School of Open Project Showcase from Creative Commons on Vimeo. As teacher librarians, we need to be aware of major shifts in the intellectual property arena. We need to be experts on the exciting developments in the culture of openness. And we need to prepare classroom teachers and digital age learners for similar understandings of […]
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