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by Amanda MacGregor
April 20, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
The vendors I do business with each year are beginning to call looking for commitments for next year and I don’t know what to tell them. We live in uncertain times. Some of the best of us are losing positions. Some of us are covering multiple libraries. For those of us lucky enough to be […]
October 18, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I discovered National Archives Experience’s DocsTeach today, thanks to eSchoolNews. My teachers are going to flip. And so will my APUSH gang. Searchable by time period, historical thinking skill, and tool, this new portal helps teachers find, use, and create instruction using more than 3,000 primary sources. I love the open-ended approach to instruction and […]
October 10, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Thanks to a Cathy Oxley’s post on our TL Diigo group, I just discovered Gale Cengage’s new YouTube video promoting AccessMyLibrary School Edition. Here’s why this matters. It matters because the market for this little video is not librarians. The market is kids. The story is why kids need reliable information and how easy it […]
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September 29, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Kindle for the Web Beta launched today. The new feature allows folks to sample first chapters of Kindle books on web browsers, preferably Firefox 3.6, Safari 5, or Chrome 5. To sample titles: click the “Read first chapter FREE” button while shopping for selected books at Amazon.com to view the sample in your browser window. […]
September 25, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
A couple of days ago a post on Curriki inspired me to take another look at the world of digital texts. I got so inspired that I pulled together a little digital text pathfinder for our high school faculty. Immediately, I got positive response. In two or three years since I started dreaming about the […]
September 15, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
With the help of our lovely PTA, last year our library was able to add four Flip camcorders to our collection. We paid for two. They were in constant use. This year Digital Wish and Flip offer the same sweet deal to nonprofit K12 schools. Buy one Flip Ultra HD, get another free, $150 for […]
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