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February 6, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
It’s a new semester here in Springfield and I’ve been reflecting again. (This post is kinda connected to the next, so please read on. It will be up soon.) I am a huge fan of free apps for creativity and productivity and dynamic information gathering. No surprise that in this blog I frequently celebrate the […]
December 5, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
There’s no free lunch. Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket. Always back up your work. I should have learned those lessons years ago. But when PageFlakes died and came back and died again over the past couple of weeks, I was devastated. Right now, the site seems most sincerely dead. I loved Pageflakes […]
October 5, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
One of the things I find most challenging and most exciting is sharing with my students the growing number of options for examining the news and for discovering that not all news is western. I practically jump up and down like a crazy person when I see my students habitually returning to the same limited […]
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September 3, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
One of those little ways I work with students and teachers nearly everyday is helping them find media to support their learning. The usual suspects, YouTube and Google Video, often present too much video noise. In my efforts to make my pathfinders just a little sexier, I started playing with Only2Clicks. (See this post from […]
July 17, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
At the BLC Conference this week in Boston, David Jakes introduced me to Only Two Clicks and I can’t believe I didn’t discover this three-year-old project earlier. It presents all the sites you plan to share as handy clickable thumbnails on a start page. Here’s the start page I am getting together for a workshop […]
June 19, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
After years of creating web-based pathfinders, it occurred to me that I wasn’t the only one out there doing this work. As a profession, we continue to reinvent wheels when we could instead build on each others’ best work, discover new resources more quickly, and share models of effective practice. A number of us are […]
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