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I discovered KidLitosphere Central: The society of bloggers in children’s and young adult literature today (thanks to a tweet by Alice Yucht). The site’s goal is to: to provide a passage to the wonderful variety of resources available from the society of bloggers in children’s and young adult literature. What’s here? A News Blog shares […]
Thanks again to Frank Baker! Each year Baker updates his wonderful Super Bowl learning portal for those interested in harnessing the ads to teach a little media literacy. This page was designed as a resource for educators. You will find links to lesson plans, news articles and streaming video clips. I could go on and […]
Need more evidence that the label digital natives creates false division? A Pew Study Generations Online in 2009, released this week reveals that Generation Y is not the only online generation. Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the "Net Generation," internet users in their twenties do not dominate every aspect of online life. […]
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I find myself wanting to celebrate my student-produced videos, especially those created to share their favorite reads. If your students are already creating book movies, consider sharing with a broader audience. Enter their masterpieces in the StoryTubes 2009 contest. Videos must be two minutes long (or shorter), feature one book only, be entered by an […]
Good searching is often connected to choosing the right tool for the right task. Thanks to a TechCrunch post, I rediscovered Pipl today, Pipl is as good as it is scary. It knows way more about all of us than we may care to reveal. Pipl crawls the deep web. For people searching, it reaches […]
I love Twitter. It is the social network I check most frequently. The microblogging tool allows you to follow anyone else who Tweets–friends, colleagues, experts, authors, organizations, journals, news agencies, businesses, and more. Tweeters’ posts are limited to 140 characters. Posts can range from breaking news, to discoveries of new and amazing links and applications, […]
A while back I noticed my databases were changing. Until recently, I ignored what the changes meant for my learners. These features are too good to be ignored. A few of my favorite Gale products (Opposing Viewpoints, for instance) offer a new text-to-speech feature. An audio player dashboard appears above documents, enabling researchers to to […]
The etiquette of relationships (aka hooking up) has always been thorny. But our kids now deal with new layers of issues, far more complicated than we could have even imagined waiting by the phone or passing notes or slam books around in class. Texts drive their communication worlds and their cell phones present new dilemmas […]
The 2009 edition of the Horizon Report was released this week in the form of a downloadable pdf. This 6th in a series of annual documents: seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education. Though the intended audience is the academic world, […]
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