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I am passing news of this event along on behalf of Lisa Perez, chair of ISTE’s SIG_MS and AASL’s 2.0 Taskforce. Talk with David Warlick from the convenience of your own home! Attend the December AASL – ISTE SIGMS learning community meeting on Tues, Dec 16 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT in Second Life. […]
Share this opportunity with your music departments and your student musicians! The YouTube Symphony Orchestra opened for auditions on December 1st. This is the first-ever such international, collaborative project. The rules: We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Your video entries will be combined into the first ever […]
The wonderful Wes Fryer, (educator,father, blogger, conference buddy) wondered in his Learning at the Speed of Creativity blog why the growing number of book-related videos and digital stories (home-grown and otherwise) are not being collected in some central, platform-independent web space. It forced me to wonder too. Though I’ve played with the idea in blog […]
While I love so many of the feeds in my RSS aggregator, I always look forward to my weekly LII updates. They are fertilizer for my pathfinders. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; […]
ALA President Ann Martin, just shared the following excellent resources on LM_NET. For the many of us facing tough times, or bracing for the potential of tough times, it may be wise to keep these links handy. The tools present easy-to-implement plans of action, as well as a variety of critical links. Toolkit press release. […]
I’ve written quite a bit about the new Code of Practice in Fair Use. The code describes how copyrighted material may be used in teaching and learning without permission and without penalty when the use is transformative. That is, when the teacher or student use of the material repurposes or adds value to the original […]
I was chatting with Jeff, a teacher of seniors with whom I’ve worked closely over the years. He’d just gotten drafts of their papers. And he was disappointed. Though we’ve work with these students so closely over the years and this years we know, based on their sources, that they didn’t take our search advice […]
When I meet librarians and teachers in my travels, I am stunned that so few of them are aware of Creative Commons licensing, and even more stunned that so few of them share this movement with learners. In a world with so many new opportunities to produce, communicate, and share, it is critical that we […]
I wrote about Glogster back in July when I discovered what it added to my wikis. My little hyperlinked, multimedia collages make my wikis prettier and more inviting. Just recently the folks at Glogster responded to the growing popularity of their tool in schools, as well as to requests for a safer environment for learners, […]
Back at the SLJ Summit, our wrap-up panel posed the question: In tight times, what do you buy first? What is your most important purchase? At the session, attendees and vendors listened very carefully as a couple of people responded. Most wanted to explore the question further. I posed the same question to the readers […]
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