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Refreshing your on- and offline spaces with a bit of library eye candy
There’s redecorating and there’s just plain old decorating. When it comes time for a bit of library refreshing, in the form of posters and bulletin boards, there are so many wonderful shared options. In the spirit of fall refreshing, I thought I’d refresh on of my posts, Fall decorating: a round-up of smart (and free) […]
Smore’s New Educator Hive
Many of us rely on Smore for student projects, for our flyers, announcements to parents, instruction and more. Many of us love it for its super-low, truly accessible learning curve. This week, the folks at Smore introduced The Educator Hive. The Hive currently features more than 450 flyer and newsletter templates shared by other educators […]
#READTransformed: remixing the celebrity poster
Perhaps it’s an inside librarian joke, but I so love this idea. I think it was Topeka Library that started the #READTransformed meme. If you’ve collected ALA’s Celebrity READ posters in your library, your students and faculty may just jump on board to help you reinterpret and remix these classics. So, pick a hero. Strike […]
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Adobe Slate and other new storytelling platforms
I’ve been in love with the elegance and free-ness of the Adobe Voice app for nearly a year now. It’s one of the easiest strategies I’ve seen for creating effective video stories. This week, Adobe introduced an equally elegant tool for digital publishing–for those times you want to tell a non-video story, largely based on […]
Databases: making the case
Brenda Boyer and I are getting ready for our edWeb webinar on use of subscription databases. In preparation, we created an infographic you may find useful in promoting databases with teachers and students. Please feel free to use and embed it if you find it helpful. Top reasons to use databases from Joyce Valenza During […]
Anchor charts away!
Anchor charts make learning sticky and visible. By presenting visual reminders of what is being taught, they support instruction and reinforce learning, anchoring or holding it in place. Anchor charts are most effective, and most likely to be used, when they are focused and co-created during instruction, with a class engaged in think-alouds or writing, […]
Five new(ish) presentation and publishing alternatives
PowerPoint is robust and Google Presentations is very sweet for collaboration, but some of us simply crave beautiful new design options for our presentations and publications. Here are four worthy options, and another one about to be born. Canva allows its users to create beautiful slides, posters, Pinterest covers and headers for Facebook and Twitter […]
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