Meet OASIS. The goal of the Openly Available Sources Integrated Search is to facilitate the discovery of OER. Co-developed at SUNY Geneseo by Ben Rawlins, director of Milne Library, and Bill Jones, digital resources and systems librarian, in consultation with SUNY OER Services Executive Director Alexis Clifton, OASIS currently searches open content from 61 different sources and points to more than 160,000 records, The […]
A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking
December 20, 2017 by 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 […]
Collections by Destiny
July 6, 2017 by 3 Comments
It is quite possible that your catalog is the most expensive piece of software in your building. Are you leveraging it to its fullest potential? Follett is about to launch an add-on to its Destiny’s 15.0 release that might just make you and your community appreciate your OPAC in a very new way. Collections by […]
Curation Situations: Let us count the ways
July 5, 2017 by 15 Comments
Curation is a funny word. When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project. […]
Unpaywall: Free, legal access to scholarly articles! (and a couple of other strategies)
March 29, 2017 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Leveraging Ideas, Experiments and other Google goodies
November 1, 2014 by 1 Comment
If you haven’t taken a look in a while, you will be amazed by the goodies Google offers to support learning across grades and content areas. They are spread across a variety of platforms, among the major portals are: Google Chrome Experiments, launched in 2009, offers an array of web browser-based experiments and interactive programs, […]
ds106 Assignment Bank
April 21, 2014 by 1 Comment
For years, I’ve been a fan of Alan Levine’s (@cogdog) 50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story and his groundbreaking, open kick-butt DS106 (digital storytelling) course. I recently rediscovered the DS106 Assignment Bank and I see it as a truly inspiring resource for inspiring K12 creativity. This collection presents an array of options for student […]
Shopping for online courses and other educational content
July 16, 2013 by 2 Comments
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 […]
School of Open opens
March 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Boundless as a free text option
October 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
Boundless is a new, free open source textbook replacement or alternative service designed for university students. But it may be a part of the solution for many of us in high schools unable to keep up with the rising cost of textbooks and the aging of our own limited print resources. The service connects college […]
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