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Students as citizen archivists and scientists: The new community service?

November 15, 2018 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

It may not be the typical white glove or laboratory experience, but students of history and science can find multiple opportunities to volunteer as citizen archivists or citizen scientists in a few important crowdsourcing efforts. The Library of Congress, the National Archives and the Smithsonian offer parts of their collections to be organized and made accessible by employing the […]

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DBQuest and Case Maker: Two more critical thinking tools from LOC!

September 17, 2018 by Joyce Valenza 1 Comment

Alert your social studies and ELA teacher friends or dig in on your own. This past week the Library of Congress launched DBQuest and Case Maker, two new web and mobile apps that join a suite of digital resources introduced back in 2016. The Library of Congress announcement shared that these new interactive opportunities for middle and high school […]

Filed Under: apps, critical thinking, information fluency, information literacy, interactivities, Library of Congress, primary sources Tagged With: apps, civics, critical thinking, interactivities, Library of Congress, primary sources

LOC introduces its Story Maps

June 2, 2018 by Joyce Valenza 1 Comment

Around a month ago, the Library of Congress announced new curatorial strategies for interactive storytelling around its diverse collections with its Story Maps. The stories offer users engaging ways to access these collections and leverage data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and a new story platform created by ESRI a corporate leader in the areas of […]

Filed Under: digital storytelling, history, images, Library of Congress, maps, primary sources, technology Tagged With: digital storytelling, history, Library of Congress, primary sources

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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Library of Congress introduces three new apps (and a reminder of some older goodies)

December 7, 2017 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

Just a couple of weeks ago, the Library of Congress announced the launch of three new apps for Web and mobile, developed by educational organizations that were supported by an LOC grant for app development. The new interactive applications focus on citizenship, civic engagement, and exploration with primary sources. Lee Ann Potter, director of Educational Outreach […]

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DPLA Primary Source Sets

September 27, 2016 by Joyce Valenza 1 Comment

Just in time for instructional planning, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) reminds us that their 100 Primary Source Sets were designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture. If you work with middle or high school learners, you’re going to love these sets created by the teachers from […]

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Shakespeare Documented

January 28, 2016 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

This year marks the 400 anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. One way to celebrate this significant commemoration is to explore Shakespeare Documented, the largest and most authoritative resource for learning about primary sources surrounding the life and career of William Shakespeare. A collaboration among more than 30 partners including the Bodleian Libraries at […]

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Remixing with NYPL #nyplremix

January 11, 2016 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

This week, New York Public Library released more than of its 187,000 public domain images free to share, reuse and remix. The collection of high resolution images spans the breadth and depth of NYPL’s holdings–historic maps, atlases, botanical illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, ancient religious texts, and, of course, the New York City collection. Now open and […]

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Celebrating the lives of the uncelebrated: StoryCorps.me

December 10, 2015 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

What if Anne Frank hadn’t kept her diary? What if no one could listen to Martin Luther King’s Mountaintop speech? What if the camera hadn’t been rolling during the first moon landing? But what if, this Thanksgiving, the youngest member of every family interviewed the oldest? Or if on February 14th, you asked a person […]

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Ben’s Guide relaunches

November 18, 2015 by Joyce Valenza Leave a Comment

In collaboration with our own AASL, the Government Printing Office just updated and redesigned its Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government. This new portal is designed to inform students, parents, and educators about the Federal Government, which issues the publications and information products disseminated by the GPO’s Federal Depository Library Program. Mobile friendly, the website […]

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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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