We eased into teaching curation, getting our feet wet by introducing it as a search tool a couple of weeks ago. This week we decided to jump in completely and we chose Paper.li as a platform for curating senior project research. (Decision digression: I went back and forth between Scoop.it and Paper.li, finally decided on […]
ERIC gets social (5 new ways to do ed research)
August 13, 2011 by 2 Comments
While many of us weren’t watching, ERIC, the granddaddy of education research, has grown a lot more social. As we prepare for a fall filled with professional development, it might be a good idea to share some of ERIC’s new coolness with the faculty. In case you never had the pleasure . . . Sponsored […]
Guide for TLs (and on curating digital content)
April 23, 2011 by 1 Comment
Lately I’ve been reading a bit about digital content curation, also referred to as human editorial curation or aggregation. I think we’ve been doing this type of work for a long time in the form of widget-based pathfinders, but now folks seem to be talking about it. In a recent Mashable post, blogger, author, and […]
INFOdocket and FullTextReports
March 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Gary Price alerts me. I’ve been following his work as editor of ResourceShelf for more than ten years Now, he and his scouting and writing partner Shirl Kennedy, continue to feed me tasty information leads, in two new information spaces: INFOdocket and FullTextReports Still shy of two-months old, these prodigious infant sites are engaged in […]
A flake-free future :-(
December 5, 2010 by 2 Comments
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 […]
New views of news
October 5, 2010 by 1 Comment
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 […]
On research transparency and inadequate containers
September 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
Yesterday, I walked around the library watching our seniors work. They are two weeks into their graduation projects and it occurred to me that things look very different from the way they looked a few years back. This year the prop I am using to illustrate the shift towards research transparency and interactivity is the […]
Hooray, the feed is back!
August 28, 2010 by 2 Comments
Please excuse this very quick post tagged “shameless self promotion.” I am happy to announce that SLJ has resolved its feed issue. If you’d like to have this blog sent to your feed reader, the RSS feed is once again working: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch (For other SLJ RSS feeds, check out this page.) To those of you […]
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