Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/31/2009
visual voicemail for Twitter
ntute offers a range of free resources to help students and staff in universities to develop Internet research skills that can support university work, and avoid some of the pitfalls of using the Internet for scholarly work.
Also good web resources by subject areaTwitter For Hospital Libraries
good ideas for ANY library!
Charles Dickens, Christmas and the power of connectedness
Do you know how much of our current Christmas traditions are derived directly from Charles Dickens' book, "A Christmas Carol"? That and more in this holiday article.
How to Survive in 2010 – Digitally
Great ideas for anytime of the year! | Ozge Karaoglu's Blog
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/30/2009
50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Transform Your Academic Research
Free Technology for Teachers: LoudLit - Listen to Books and Read Along
"LoudLit.org is a good place to find free audio recordings of famous works of literature. Many websites do this, but what makes LoudLit unique and useful for teachers is the option of reading the text online while listening to the reading of the text."
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/29/2009
in Glogster...fabulous! from Joyce Valenza--she says a prototype!
The Cat Bookler and the Mystery of the Missing Mysteries - Welcome
clever and creative website for book fair at a middle school - with book trailers and lots of web2.0 tools used
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/28/2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/28/2009
This is a nice way to search for PBS videos like Word Girl, Word World and Super Why. Search by age level or category.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/27/2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/25/2009
Çek defterini iade etmemek beraat | Çek Mağdurları
Yeni çek yasasında büyük bir çelişki vardır. Karşılıksız çek suçlarında gün adli para cezası ile çek bedelinden aşağı ceza verilememesi hatalı bir durum ortaya çıkarmaktadır
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/24/2009
provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.
Chatting with Kids About Being Online from http://www.onguardonline.gov/.
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/24/2009
Library Transformation
Let me begin about 18 months ago. I took the position of Director of Educational Media and Technology at an Independent School. In plain English, that means that I am in charge of the technology and the library of the school. In the first 12 months, I have been working with teachers and faculty to transform the way that technology is used in the classroom, but in the last 6 I have changed my focus to the school's library.
To give a simple picture, our school library is in a new building (4+ years old) and we have a good sized collection of books, that include reference, fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels. Our librarian keeps our collection up to date. Over the summer we converted our catalog system to Follet Destiny, with the add-on of Destiny Quest.
Other than that, we were using the model that had been at the school for over 10 years. PK- grade 2 classes would have scheduled library time, the teacher would drop them off and leave them for the librarian to read a book to and maybe start a discussion. For grades 3-5 teachers still have scheduled time, but they stay with their classes and use the space as they see fit. Some use it as computer time, others as silent reading time, some use it for regular class time in a "new" location.
This signaled to me that there was a need for a transformation, a way to re-frame the library space and give people extended options for its use and the use of its print, electronic, and human resources. The beginning of the transformation was a meeting with the library staff to develop a shared vision of what a library should be. While our ultimate goal was to get to the library to a 21st century library model, we knew this would be a process. Our first step was to market the library as a HUB of learning. We needed both students and teachers to see that the library is more than a space with a lot of books.
Our first change was to show that the library was a home for all types of resources. Our librarians began to offer their skills as information gatherers. We shared with teachers that we would help gather resources for class projects and units. For this we use a handy web 2.o tool called fur.ly (http://fur.ly).
This tool allows multiple URLs to be compiled into one tiny url that gives access to all of these resources. The advantage of this for our library was to enable our librarian to research any number of websites on a given topic and return one single url to the teacher. The teacher can then publish this to their website or any other resource list for students.
As we add transformative practices to our school library, i will be adding them to this blog.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/23/2009
What Teachers Need to Know About Creative Commons
slidecast embedded
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/22/2009
Your clips from Web - WebClip.in
"WebClip lets you clip videos, photos, text and links that most interests you. Rather than bookmarking the web page (of course you can do that too), you save parts of pages that you like. Having all the clips in one location, able to play, view, read and share them with your friends via social networking channels, are some of the advantages of webclip. "
Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch: 2009: What I bought this year
check out some of these new tools and toys!
Life Feast: 10 Ways of sending your Christmas Greetings
cool tools for schools, too!
"Collect all kinds of images, videos from over 30 video sites, slideshare presentations, scribd documents, pdfs, links, rss feeds and much more."
"a collection of 140-character pearls of wisdom from educators using the social networking service, Twitter.
From behaviour management to interaction with colleagues, you will find practical advice and ideas contributed by classroom practitioners!"
2009 by Doug BelshawThe e-book, the e-reader, and the future of reading
/ The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
via Stephen's Lighthouse - good principles for webpage design, too! Get your "customers'" attention!
"search engine for images, mostly ones that have a Creative Commons license. It’s design is very attractive and easy to use. The key reason I like it, though, is because when you want to use one of their photos, it automatically shows whatever permissions are required."
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/21/2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/20/2009
Five Steps to Combat Bullying with Comic Life
Tackling cyberbullying using COMIC LIFE
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/19/2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/18/2009
What Books Are Students Reading?
Renaissance Learning:
* The top 20 books most widely read in grades 1–12, overall and
by gender
* The top 20 books most widely read by low- and high-achieving students
* The top 10 nonfiction books and books for use across the curriculum
Downloadable report (pdf)I hope this Blog assists teachers in recommending books with characters with whom our students can relate. I also hope this Blog assists in recommending books with multiple realities of the D/deaf human experience.
While my primary focus is adolescent and Young Adult chapter books, I will add information about children's literature and adult 'cross-over' texts from time to time.
Enjoy,
Sharon Pajka-West, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/17/2009
How to retool yourself--a roadmap of at least 15 FREE ways for school librarians (and their classroom teacher colleagues) to develop professionally by Joyce Valenza
Great ideas for all of us!
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/16/2009
Çek Yasası Kabul Edilen Tam Metin | Çek Mağdurları
TBMM KABUL EDİLEN ÇEK YASASI TAM METİNDİR..
ÇEK KANUNU
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/16/2009
Convert PDF to Word (DOC) — 100% Free!
"Using our PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect.
Best of all, it's entirely free!"Overseas and Overwhelmed – Pictory
pictory photo stories
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/15/2009
Storyline: members of the actors guild foundaton read children's books allowed, accompanied by activities and lesson plans.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/14/2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Living in the Clouds Part 1
For most of my computer use this month I will be using a computer where the only thing I have paid for is the computer itself. I am using a browser to access all my applications, keep my notes, write this blog, store files and photos and much much more. All of the work that traditionally took place in office suite type applications, was stored on hard drives, moved around on floppy disks, then portable media drives, and then USB drives eventually printed on paper are now being done, stored, shared and submitted online. This is known as cloud computing.
If my "experiment" works, it could have multiple implications on the use of technology at my school. There could be economic, procedural and pedagogical repercussions with this type of change. In this first part, I am going to list out what web 2.o applications I am using and for what purpose. While this list is not finite, it will illustrate the backbone of what is being used.
First and formost I needed to choose a browser, and for this experiment as I am calling it, I have chosen to use Google Chrome. This is a very scaled down, low frills and fast moving browser. My usual browser of choice is firefox, but I thought this would be a great chance to run Chrome through its paces. Added onto chrome I have used add-ons for google wave, Picnik, Google Voice, Diigo, Blogger and evernote. The home page I use is an iGoogle home page with links to my most used applications and webpages.
The applications I have chosen are those that will help me with productivity, and other work and home related tasks. What I am not using this for is leisure or gaming.
Basic Tasks: Google Docs, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, forms.
Email: Gmail, integrated with other google apps and easy to use from multiple computers.
Notes and Organization: Evernote, good filing system and web based.
Calendar: Google Calendar, easy to use, ical friendly, easy to organize multiple calendars.
Bookmarking: Diigo, interactive social bookmarking with good tagging tools.
Online Storage: Dropbox, 2 gigs of free storage.
RSS Feeds: Google Reader, integrated system with other google apps, easy to use.
Twitter: Tweetdeck, while this does take a good amount of memory, it is still better to organize your tweets.
Blogging: Blogger, again an easy to use app that integrates with other google features.
Screen Capture: Jing, easy to install and use. While not feature rich, until fireshot or something like it is available for Chrome, this will do.
I am sure that this list will grow, but my goal is not to spend a cent on any applications. If something changes and there is a charge for on of the above programs, I will abandon it and look for a similar application elsewhere. I will post reviews as I learn and grow with this and will blog about that too.
Digital Citizenship 12/11/2009
Educator & Parent Tips to Prevent Sexting
Larry Magid and Anne Collier offer practical tips for educators and parents on how to prevent teen sexting (the sharing of nude photos by cell phone).
Facebook creates safety advisory board to protect child users
"The global board will include representatives from Internet safety groups with which Facebook already has relationships. They include Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute." The global board will include representatives from Internet safety groups with which Facebook already has relationships. They include Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute.
Yeni Çek Kanunu Adalet Komisyonu Raporu | Çek Mağdurları
aşkanlığınızca Çek Kanunu Tasarısı (1/710), 21/5/2009 tarihinde tali komisyon olarak Avrupa Birliği Uyum Komisyonuna, esas komisyon olarak da Komisyonumuza havale edilmiştir.
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/11/2009
Backlinks Checker Tool - Backlink Watch
Back link watch check the back links
Technology timeline. "Edit stories to add detail (or correct a mistake). Add personal anecdotes about the effects convergent technologies have had on your life. Add a completely new entry. It could be a technology that isn't on here yet. It could be about a technology that hasn't been invented yet. Share it with us."
New: A Guide to Using Web 2.0 in Libraries « ResourceShelf
pdf document: + What is Web 2.0?
+ Why use Web 2.0?
+ Benefits of Web 2.0
+ Implementing Web 2.0 Services
+ Staffing Implications of Web 2.0
+ Legal Implications of Web 2.0
+ Integrating Web 2.0
+ Web 2.0 and Future-Proofing
+ Web 2.0 and Internal Systems
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/10/2009
Survey: One-Third of Youths Engage in Sexting
If you think the sexting phenomenon is growing, you’re not imagining it. According to a new survey, almost one-third of youths admit they’ve engaged in sexting-related activities that involved either e-mailing a photo or video of themselves in the nude or being the recipient of such images.
A Thin Line : www.athinline.org
MTV's campaign to educate teens about the dangers of SEXTING. The campaign was developed to empower teens identify, respond to, and stop the spread of digital abuse in their lives and amongst their peers. It is built on the understanding that there's a "thin line" between what may begin as a harmless joke and something that could end up having a serious impact on you or someone else.
MTV's Digital Abuse Study [PDF]
As part of its multi-year publicity campaign to address the emerging issue of teen digital abuse, MTV partnered with the AP on a study that provides an in-depth look at the prevalence of digital abuse among young people today.
'Kick a Ginger Day' leaves a bitter lesson
New form of school cyberbullying toward red heads demonstrated with "Kick A Ginger Day" - a hate crime with redheads as victims, promoted via a Facebook group and inspired by a Southpark episode from 2005.
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/10/2009
sites (Google Teacher Academy Resources)
google sites resources
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 12/08/2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/07/2009
KRİTİK NOKTADA SON HAMLE İÇİN BİRLİK OLUYORUZ
Tarihte örgütlü güçler olmadan kazanılmış başarılar yoktur.
Youth using phones to harass and spy on partners
A survey of 1200 teens and young adults (conducted by Knowledge Networks for the Associated Press and MTV) found that 22% of the digital youth reported they have been targeted for digital abuse, either through cell phone, email or internet monitoring by someone they were dating.
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/07/2009
Digital Citizenship: Digital Communication
Where do you start when talking to students about Digital Communication? Our students are so much more adept than the average educator at using methods of digital communication in most aspects of their life. While most teachers use e-mail, some probably text or IM in their jobs or personal lives, some are parts of social networks and even some have their own blogs and wikis. The dilemma arises not with how to use these technologies, but the clarity with which they are being used.
There are many articles that speak about digital communication as a hybrid of written and spoken communication. What happens is that digital communication has the speed and ability to converse like the spoken word, but lacks the "in person" ability to read facial expressions and body language as well as with digital communication there is no volume to hear inflections in a speakers voice. It is unlike the written word, in that digital communication can be reactionary and does not give the receiver of the original message time to think about a response, write it down and then deliver it. Because of the speed in which digital communication can be sent, it can, at times be too quick.
Due to these gaps in communication, there have been accommodations that have been made to digital communications that help the author to convey emotions. There are acronyms, emoticons and the use of "all caps" to show vocal levels. I must admit, that these accommodations do not solve the problem in professional communications and are rather colloquial in nature. While these tools may make social interactions more clear for participants, it does not, in my mind, help clarity in professional communications.
In teaching this to students, I have taken the definition of Digital Communication" from Baily & Ribble's book, Digital Citizenship in Schools. I have put together some information on my school's digital citizenship wiki, including some types of digital communication and links to acronyms and emoticons. My goal will be to heighten awareness of the dangers of digital communication, to think before speaking/writing and to remember that there will always be a record of what is sent. Much like we teach our students to think before speaking, to not be mean or hurtful in their personal interactions, to write with purpose, we need to continue these tenets into their digital communication. Until we can begin to treat all of our digital communications in the same vein as we treat our "real life" communications, there will continue to be gaps and confusion in all forms of Digital Communication.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/06/2009
homepage
YouTube - Leadel 7 show (1 Dec 09)
Harmonious, amusing and interesting Leadel 7 has some curious facts to share with you!! Info for Iphone
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Design
I have begun reading Daniel Pink's book, A Whole New Mind and have started into Part 2; the six senses. The first of the senses described is Design. Pink says, "Design is a high-concept aptitude that is difficult to outsource or automate-and that increasingly confers a competitive advantage in business." (pg. 86)
What does Pink mean by this? I must admit that to me the answer is really nothing new, in fact he is just bringing us full circle to a time long ago...the Renaissance. Once upon a time, there were people who excelled in a multitude of areas, business, art, theology, science, architecture and much much more. These people were the premiere thinkers of their time, agents of change in a rather unchanging world. These men are now aptly dubbed Renaissance men (society was quite patriarchal then). Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Socrates, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the list goes on were these types of people, and yes, most of them facilitated change.
More recently (within the last century), skill specialization, along with a focus on what Pink calls L-directed thinkers put a premium on those that were number crunchers, business minded and the like. Those with Renaissance skill sets were less valued for those that could specialize in a highly touted skill. However, the world is now saturated with these specialized worker bees and many outside the US offer these skills at a cheaper rate than those in the US. More to my point, and to Pink's is that this L-directed thinking is no longer a commodity, so what is going to set those that will be agents of change apart from the crowd? One of the answers is Design.
I heartily agree with this point. Creativity was once seen as the things of dreamers, but as so many now understand, dreaming and making dreams come true are the things that we really do value. Apple's poster campaign "Think Different" is a perfect example of how this sense of "design" really is one of the qualities that will make our future brighter.
Pink's book gives some exercises to help develop and hone one's design sense. One of the ideas I was able to put right to action was reading design magazines. I do most of my reading online, and therefore I am going to share two sites that Pink shares. The first is Ambidextrous, a magazine put out by Stanford university. The second is Metropolis, with emphasis on construction and materials. I am always looking to increase my knowledge base.
With my renewed interest in developing my Renaissance persona, I will be adding Design to my repetoire of skills to infuse in my classes, lessons and professional development delivery. With all of the educational technology tools available, there should never be a shortage of creative design.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/04/2009
Bridging the Digital Native-Immigrant Divide
The digital native–digital immigrant metaphor has been used to make a distinction between those with technology skills and those without. Metaphors such as this one are useful when having initial conversations about an emerging phenomenon, but over time, they become inaccurate and dangerous. Thus, this paper proposes a new metaphor, the digital melting pot, which supports the idea of integrating rather than segregating the natives and the immigrants.
In his blog, Bud The Teacher looks at "print resource" and what it means in this digital age. Has it become a meaningless term?
Is Your Facebook Personality Genuine?
When University of Texas researchers began studying Facebook friends, they expected that users also would exaggerate accomplishments and offer an enhanced version of themselves. To their surprise, they discovered that Facebook profiles typically gave an accurate and realistic impression of the user’s real-life personality.
Teacher Magazine: Cellphones Evolve Into Instructional Tool
Leonard's class at Wiregrass Ranch High School in Wesley Chapel, a middle-class Florida suburb about 30 miles north of Tampa, is one of a growing number around the country that are abandoning traditional policies of cell phone prohibition and incorporating them into class lessons.
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/04/2009
Teaching and technology ~ presentations and resources for educators
pdf documents for technology tools: pdocasting, blogging, vodcastng and more. EXCELLENT!!!
links for book Library Mashups by chapter. See also delicious.com/librarymashups
n Library Mashups, Nicole C. Engard and 25 contributors from all over the world walk readers through definitions, summaries, and practical uses of mashups in libraries. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming skills to make simple website updates, to modifying the library OPAC, to using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps, and Delicious to share and combine digital content.Neil Gaiman Asks: Heard Any Good Books Lately? : NPR
Gaiman discusses his own experiences with audio books and interviews others, including a representative from Audible.com and David Sedaris. You’ll hear an affirmation of reading’s impact on people, specifically the impact (and legitimacy) of audio books on people.
LibGuides Help Pages - Introduction to LibGuides - Home
Help Pages. Introduction to LibGuides. Home. Getting started with creating your content in the system.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/03/2009
Sexting’ bullying cited in teen’s suicide
Teen death is only the second known case of a suicide linked to bullying after “sexting” — the practice of transmitting sexual messages or images electronically. In March, 18-year-old Jesse Logan killed herself in the face of a barrage of taunts when an ex-boyfriend forwarded explicit photos of her following their split.
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/03/2009
DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed
We are thrilled to announce that DailyLit is now 100% free. Starting now, any book, story or series featured on DailyLit is being made available for free.
DailyLit has always been about responding to our readers – any feature we’ve launched or change we’ve made has been in response to readers’ requests. We’re now listening to our readers once again, and it’s clear that they most appreciate the wonderful books, stories and installments available for free.Exploratree in action - Exploratree by FutureLab
"Exploratree in action" online thinking guide library that you can also upload to.
Rutgers RIOT - Research Information Online Tutorial
short interactive research modules from Rutgers University
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Digital Citizenship 12/02/2009
Magid: Treating kids on the Web in a new way
Larry Magid discusses the shift in thinking -- from a focus of constraint and protection against predators to one of developing a culture of responsibility and digital citizenship.
School psychologist and risk-prevention specialist, Patti Agatston suggests that we consider using health prevention models for Internet safety education — basic safety advice for most youth and intense counseling from mental health professionals for the small minority of young people who are taking extraordinary risks both on and offline.
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Teacher Librarian Links 12/02/2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Teacher Librarian Links 11/30/2009
examples of school library web sites and who they demonstrate effective practice in a school library program
Learn Stunning Facts On Twitter With #omgfacts | Penn Olson
"@omgfacts." possible for twitterfall or other twitter display/feed
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