We just wrapped up our popular workshop Integrating iPads and Tablet Computers into Library Services. Today’s workshop was particularly noteworthy in light of Apple’s recent rollout of the iPad 3.
50 Best Movies for Women's History Month
I found this while searching Literary Criticism for a colleague, a bit reluctant to change the tags but will add a few
Awesome wiki of resources for advocacy and frugal tips for school libraries.
Changing view of Wikipedia - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
100 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month | Self Made Scholar - Free Self Education Classes Online
5 Questions to Ask before Jumping on the Infographics Bandwagon
A Slow-Books Manifesto - Maura Kelly - Entertainment - The Atlantic#.T3JKSukCudk.twitter
AUPs in a Web 2.0 World | EdTech Magazine
A good article regarding some of the steps you should think about when updating your acceptable use policies
This is a guide to assist school districts in developing, rethinking or revising Internet policies as a consequence of the emergence of web 2.0 and the growing pervasiveness of smart phone use.
Student Safety in the Age of Facebook -- THE Journal
Interesting article that discusses AUP. One analogy is how we make kids water safe. You don't make kids water-safe by trying to eliminate swimming pools. You make them safe by teaching them how to swim. Teach about acceptable use and not restriction of technology.
20 Ways Libraries Are Using Pinterest Right Now | Edudemic
Excellent article with lots of great ideas
Perth Writers Festival: Tapping into the Zeitgeist - Books and Authors - Browse - Big Ideas - ABC TV
This is a group of writers in discussion at the Perth Writers Festival, all of whom have tapped into the vast readership of Young Adult fiction.
Video or audio
Great set of interactive games from Rice University helps students explore science concepts, learn about science careers, even conduct virtual science experiments.
Very easy to set up backchannel software that could be used for student input during a class session.
Just Google It? Developing Internet Search Skills - NYTimes.com
Learn It In 5 - Do you use Today's Meet?
Video explaining how to use TodaysMeet
Has Google turned the corner and begun to subvert search results for self promotion? " It has degraded its premier product in service of promoting others. It has done devious things to ferret out information from its users that they do not willingly provide."
Infographics in Education - home
Great wiki with resources
Investigates the personalisation of news stories based on robot journalism - will I get a different article than somebody else when I click on the same link because of the rest of my search preferences?
Don't Tag Me, Bro: How to Control Facebook Photo Tags
Stopping photo tags on Facebook
A suggested system for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and codified, celebrating authors and creators, and also respecting those who discover and amplify their work.
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Over 200 free resources including:
Writing and Teaching Writing
Research
Grammar and Mechanics
Style Guides
ESL (English as a Second Language)
Job Search and Professional Writing"
Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? | Healthland | TIME.com
Top Ten (10) Social Media Competencies for Librarians | The Search Principle blog
Talks about health libraries, but completely applicable to school TLs.
Top Ten Social Media Competencies for Teachers - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
62 things you can do with Dropbox
A great list of things a user can do with dropbox
Comment on, edit, and fill PDF files, Word documents, images and more | Crocodoc
Sharing thoughts and comments on a common article.
Supporting Transliteracy in a High School Library « Libraries and Transliteracy
A slideshare from Wendy Stephens on building transliteracy skills in her high school library.
Register & Read Beta is a new, experimental program to offer free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. Register & Read follows the release of the Early Journal Content as the next step in our efforts to find sustainable ways to extend access to JSTOR, specifically to those not affiliated with participating institutions.
Marley Knapp - APPealing APPs for the iPad
Davidson County Schools iPad page.
Science vocabulary organized by grade level and content area
Apps in Education: 10 QR Readers for the iPad
A site that does the searching through the itunes store for apps in education.
This wiki showcases practical ways that librarians can incorporate the ever expanding world of Web 2.0 technology into library related lessons and activities.
Vocabulary, Spelling and Grammar Resources « The Learning Hub @ LCGS
The laptop untethered us from the fixed desktop location and allowed technology to become mobile. A new range of devices is now breaking many of the final shackles of computing use that were not conducive to effective educational practice. A range of these devices have been available for many years but it was the release of the iPad that has seen wide educational acceptance of the alternative mobile device.
Copyright Fair Use and How it Works for Online Images | Social Media Examiner
Upload your powerpoint as a PDF to this site. Type in your speech for each slide, press play and hear your presentation.
Libraries as Communally Constructed Sites of Participatory Culture:...
Survive and Thrive! An Advocacy Toolkit for School Librarians
It's time for school librarians to speak out about how they help students meet learning standards. This advocacy kit provides templates and talking points for meetings with students, teachers, administrators, school boards and parents.
Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany | Books | guardian.co.uk
Fujitsu ScanSnap Document Scanners + Evernote
Use your ScanSnap to digitize all the
documents, receipts, and business cards that clutter your desk and life.
Set your ScanSnap to send those scans into Evernote, where they become instantly accessible and searchable from any device you use. Who knew that going paperless could
be so simple?
Cyberbullying resources from the Faculty of Education - McGill University
Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship | MindShift
Great article on Digital Citizenship resources to use.
Born to Not Get Bullied [Lady Gaga]
NYT account of the launch of the BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION. Youth empowerment effort led by Lady Gaga that addresses bullying as a human rights issue.
From 'Born This Way' to Move This Way |Net Family News
Anne Collier: Some take-aways from Lady Gaga's launch and several mos. of working with danah boyd and Harvard's Berkman Center to ground the event and her new foundation/movement in solid research
Lady Gaga's speech at Born This Way Foundation launch [Video]
Lady Gaga gives a speech at the launch of her new charity, the Born This Way Foundation.
Developing students’ digital literacy to give them the best chance of success : JISC
Many learners enter further and higher education lacking the skills needed to apply digital technologies to education. As 90% of new jobs will require excellent digital skills, improving digital literacy is an essential component of developing employable graduates.
ALA Press Release | American Library Association
ALA's statement on the need for flex scheduling in schools libraries. As needed!
1 Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt - home
Webinars from ISTE's SIGMS that focus on tools for you to use in your professional practice.
