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My Link Library 07/21/2010
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IBM Social Computing Guidelines
- how to blog--corporate style
- post by Benjamin J Robertson - Considered to be one of the best examples of social media policy for a large organization. - post by Sean Brady
- how to blog--corporate style
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 07/01/2010
Widgets for ratings: stars, sliders, sidebar
Provides a way to rate anythingStory Ocean - Short Story Exhibition: $1000 Allenvale Cash Prize
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/30/2010
I create, write, think, and speak about library websites and emerging digital technology. This website reflects those topics. I tend towards library website stuff – managing, marketing, experimenting, usability, and planning. Sometimes I stray into other related-yet-cool (translation: fun) topics, like videoblogging, experience design and planning, and web 2.0 / library 2.0 topics. Basically, anything in my head on any given day that’s somehow related to libraries, digital technology and websites.
Read, or personalize classic tales and have them read back with word highlighting. Nice collection of children's classic picturebooks.
Registration allows you to save your personalized books and share with others.
Use on an interactive whiteboard or available as an app for ipod Touch, iPhone, or iPad.a live binder of tools, tutorials and more to help students show what they have learned
AccessMyLibrary - School Edition for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Learn more, read reviews, and download AccessMyLibrary - School Edition by Gale, part of Cengage Learning on the iTunes App Store.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/28/2010
21st Century Information Fluency
"If you need to design a unit or a course for teaching information fluency, here is a suggested sequence of course activities for middle school and high school (the Basic Course may be adaptedfor grades 4 and 5, described below). As you can see in the tables below, we've structured Basic and Intermediate courses around a series of individual study MicroModules and hands-on Flash challenges. As more activities go online, new options will become available and this list will be updated. Use our list of core competencies to choose activities.
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Internet Search Challenge. Use Google to answer the question:What is the url of a page that lists the number of shows that have opened on Broadway year-by-year since 1984?
Time to beat? 10 minutesYouTube - Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)
A social networking version of the Shift Happens videos
22 Educational Social Media Diagrams
Sometimes it is easier to see concepts visually to get a basic understanding and then do further research on the topics that are most relevant to your business. In today's post we collected some great visualizations of social media concepts including monitoring and content distribution.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/27/2010
Library cataloging, classification, metadata, subject access and related topics.
A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette
A polite librarian is a good librarian.
©ollectanea | University of Maryland University College
Join the Center for Intellectual Property's Scholar, Peter Jaszi, in a discussion of current copyright issues.
Give an Old Laptop New Life with Cheap (or Free) Projects | LifeHacker.com
Like a famed race horse or a classic book, you don't just throw away a laptop because it's banged up a little. Even if it seems outdated and underpowered, most any laptop is still small, quiet, and relatively low on power consumption, making it a seriously valuable spare to keep handy—even without a working screen. With some free software, a little know-how, and some creative thinking about your home network, nearly any old laptop can find its second wind, and today I'll run through some of the best ways to get it there.
Booklist is a 100-year-old journal, published by the American Library Association, whose core mission is to provide public and school librarians with reviews that help them decide what to buy. In recent years, Booklist has also become a valuable tool that helps librarians make reading recommendations.
Thoughts on copyright, libraries, academics, fans, anime, games…
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/26/2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/25/2010
morgueFile free photos for creatives by creatives
Morguefile.com free stock photos
Heather B.'s blog about Buffy's presentation at ESU Summer Institute
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/24/2010
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Monday, June 21, 2010
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/21/2010
Course : Freemind Tutorial | Open-of-Course.org
This Freemind tutorial is made by Shailaja Kishor Kumar. FreeMind is an open source mind mapping tool that enables you to visualize ideas, projects, concepts, brainstorming, internet research or any other task that can benefit from a structured overview. You can create nodes with child and sibling nodes and add icons, clouds, notes and custom formatting for better presentation. The nodes can be expanded or collapsed, or interactively linked to local files, other maps, online resources and more. You can also insert encrypted nodes or create encrypted maps for sesitive projects. The finished maps can be exported to HTML, clickable XHTML, Open Office document, image file and other formats.
TED: Margaret Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright
"Margaret Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins."
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/19/2010
Create a QR code for a URL, contact, phone, text, etc....
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/17/2010
educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
education bloom's taxomony
JigsawPlanet.com - Free Online Jigsaw Puzzle Games
for puzzle lovers
As its title suggests, an awesome collection of resources for the classroom. Includes a huge variety of categories, such as research; quiz and poll; images; and video. Well worth perusing!
awesome for visual learners
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/16/2010
COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS | Lesson Plans | Independent Lens | PBS
hese resources examine copyright law in the history of “borrowing” sounds in music, and raise provocative questions about what is creative and what is criminal. These lessons are directed toward grades 9 through 12, and college students for use in the following subject areas: media studies, media literacy, social studies, history, sociology, media production, music and language arts, business, and legal studies.
Information Literacy for the 21st Century « Libraries and Transliteracy
7 points of information literacy:
* IL as context specific and context sensitive;
* IL demanding a variety of behaviours: not just searching, but also encountering, browsing, monitoring, managing and creating;
* People moving along complex paths to meet their information needs: moving between the virtual and physical worlds, and using different sources and spaces;
* IL in digital environments;
* IL with people sources;
* People being information literate individually and collaboratively
* People being aware they are information literate: you cannot be an information literate 21st Century citizen without being conscious of the need to develop these IL skills and attitudes, and continue to update your IL through your life!
Excellent article.
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/15/2010
"Stop, You’re Killing Me! is a resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. We list over 3,300 authors, with chronological lists of their books (over 37,000 titles), both series (3,700+) and non-series."
• SYNC is an online community that seeks to build the audience for audiobooks among readers 13 and up.
• Each week, SYNC will give away 2 FREE downloads--a popular Young Adult title paired with a Classic title that appears on Summer Reading lists--starting July 1 through September 1, 2010.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/14/2010
What Will You Learn this Summer? 35 Professional Development Resources | Teacher Reboot Camp
Embrace Your Tribe – A Discussion & Interview with Seth Godin « Tame The Web
Seth Godin's marketing model interpreted to libraries. Very good interview. Excellent post.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/13/2010
Get the Latest Statistics | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
EA SPORTS predicts Spain will win the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ : 2010 ...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/08/2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/07/2010
Myspace Generators - Flash Toys
Site with a lot of fun image and text generators for websites and blogs
Tap into the World of Comics Primary School version
Strategies for using Comics in the Classroom
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Infographics
This is a very professional and high level infographic, but there are many other types that can allow students and teachers to use this very powerful display method to share ideas and information. Not having access to a group like Cognitive Media, students and teachers alike will need to find other tools and strategies to make their information POP!
The Wild Apricot Blog has a great post on Making your own Infographic. This article has links to strategies, examples and How-To websites. The Wild Apricot Blog quotes Wikipedia,
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information.Like much of the information we access in today's educational settings, students need to have information readily available and the ability to quickly present complex information is essential for teachers of these types of students.
One of the best guides to help anyone create an effective infographic is an article by Sneh Roy, The Anatomy of An Infographic: 5 Steps to Create a Powerful Visual. With a working knowledge of the 5 steps a student or a teacher could create an easy to navigate informational visual on almost any topic.
Two of my favorite tools for engaging info graphics (this is just two of many) are Wordle and Prezi. Wordle is a word cloud creator that is easy to use, customizable and allows the user to cut and paste any text into it. prezi is a unique presentation tool that instead of using traditional slides, allows the information to be placed on one single workspace and then the user can navigate, zoom and rotate the view from piece of information to piece of information to make an interactive visual presentation.
While this post only shows a few of the tools and resources for infographics, it is meant as an introduction to the topic and how it can be used more effectively in educational settings and in particular for those involved with Media and Technology within education.
Teacher Librarian Links 06/05/2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/04/2010
Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes.
ipl2: Information You Can Trust
Internet Public Library and Librarians' Internet Index combined
kids, teens, special collections, newspapers & magazines, subject area resources
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/03/2010
A comparison of Kindle, Sony eReadrr and iPod Touch/iPhone
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 06/01/2010
YA Literature Audiobook Community
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Secrets of Change: Secret 2
I have now finished the second secret in Michael Fullan's book, The Six Secrets of Change. This chapter is on Secret 2: Connecting Peers with Purpose. In my new position as CIO I have a vision of an integrated Library and Technology Departments into one Information Department. Right now in theory, we are all housed under the guise of "information services", but in reality each department functions independently of the other. When I was reading this chapter, I tried to envision how to utilize what was said in the effort to unite the two information families into one united information hub.
Initially in the opening statement for this chapter, Fullan talks about the nuance of connecting peers with purpose. "The nuance is that connecting peers with purpose does not require less leadership at the top, but rather more -- more of a different kind. (Fullan, 2008, pg.41) This, much like secret one, does not see exceptional leadership as top-down, rather with the leader being able to skillfully navigate the potentially choppy waters of interpersonal interactions.
Fullan does set forth three conditions that positive purposeful peer interaction effectively occurs with:
1) When the larger values of the organization and those of individuals and groups mesh.
In our school environment I feel that everyone in the information services department loves the school, and that was a strong draw for me to take this job. When everyone is there for the good of the students and the good of the school, you will have step one in the bag. Not having to create a foundation is a plus, though if this step is not already in place, a good leader must start from scratch. The way that I look at it is, if step one is not in place, you will need to examine what each of your group's members have in common and build coherency around like elements.
2) When information and knowledge about effective practices are widely and openly shared.
This is something that I feel happens among members of PLN's but within schools this is something that is at times reticent to happen. I am not sure why, but I find that those that work in schools are most apt to keep their cards close to their vests when it comes to things that might gain accolades. What everyone needs to know is that best practices and sharing of knowledge and information raises the bar and standards for every member of the team and the team as a whole. When step 1 is in place and people begin to feel responsibility for the school, the team and themselves, everyone wins!
3) When monitoring mechanisms are in place to detect and address ineffective actions while also identifying and consolidating effective practices.
Step 3 can only happen when steps 1 and 2 are solidly in place. There is also the underlying need for trust. If a team does not trust it's leader then monitoring mechanisms and efforts to unite best practices will be met with animosity and second guessing. If you are at the point where step 3 is in the queue and you are setting up monitoring mechanisms, you should also have the trust of your team. Remember, these mechanisms cannot and should not be developed in a vacuum and not only should a good leader be transparent, but a team should be united by best practice to collectively create and use the monitoring mechanisms to continually evolve.
While Peer to Peer purposeful interaction can be used as a common thread within a team, it is much more than simply that. Beyond purposeful, there needs to be higher level interactions that can align a team to continue along those paths indefinitely.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
My Link Library 05/31/2010
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Teacher Librarian Links 05/31/2010
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Teacher Librarian Links 05/30/2010
GOOD.is | The Most Targeted Books (Raw Image)
2009 Top Ten challenged books. Graphic representation which includes reasons why the books have been challenged.
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