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February 27, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
On Friday, our High School was honored to be one of three schools to host visiting members of the ISTE Board who were in town for a meeting. (The other schools on the tour were Science Leadership Academy and School of the Future.) We began by posing this problem to a core group of students, […]
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 26, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Around this time of year, it is customary for bloggers to look back at their blogs and come up with a list of highlights. Here’s a recap of low points and highlights and favorite discoveries. In January, I lamented the disappearance of the majority of the databases in our state suite and celebrated the launch […]
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November 7, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Hooray! SIGMS (our own lovely ISTE special interest group) just announced powerful opportunities for learning and retooling. This month you can meet with one of my mentors (and likely one of yours too), David Loertscher. And you can join in on the exciting, new 1 Tool at a Time series! This first event will cover […]
August 19, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve just returned from nearly three weeks in Australia. It’s been a long time since I was away from home for so long. During the first leg of my trip, I spoke at the Winter(!) conference of the librarians of SLAV (School Library Association of Victoria). I’ve never met a more intrepid, creative, energetic and […]
August 4, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Once again, the fabulous and irrepressible leaders of the California School Library Association offer us all a little gift to use with learners this coming school year. Teen Learning 2.0 is an updated social web tutorial, tested with middle school students. TeenLearning 2.0 explains its purpose: This tutorial is designed so that you can learn […]
July 22, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
In a recent post I shared a few new options for student book creation. Another strategy for publishing is a very simple one, one that allows us to take documents originally published quietly in traditional formats–Word, PowerPoint, PDF, XLS–into more dynamic, more polished, flippable, zoomable, scalable, and embeddable Web publications. Most reproduce the feeling of […]
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