Thursday, May 31, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 06/01/2012
Is the Internet hurting children? - CNN.com
"Amid the buzz over the Facebook IPO, the ever-evolving theories about how Twitter is reshaping our communications and speculation about where the next social media-enabled protest or revolution will occur, there is an important question we've largely ignored. What are the real effects of all this on the huge segment of the population most affected by social media themselves: our children and our teens?"
How Video Games Make Schools Better | Online Universities
examines research and best practices to provide an enlightening overview of the ways in which these popular technologies make education (at all levels) more engaging and effective.
Swiss Army Librarian » Highlighting the Value of Library Use :: Brian Herzog
" a little macro that pulls the cost figure from each item's record, adds them all up, and provides a total. We present it in kind of a cutesy context, but the intent is to show people how much they save by using the library. Check it out:"
How to Use Pinterest for Your Library
Great article from VOYA by a YA librarian
Food: How to feed a planet, continued | The Economist
Chart showing progress for world regions in feeding themselves, From 1965-2010 with some interesting analysis.
It has been firmly established that more reading leads to better reading (and writing, spelling, vocabulary and grammar), and that more access to books results in more reading (Krashen, 2004). It is thus reasonable to hypothesize that more access to books is related to better reading. This prediction has been confirmed by a number of studies showing a positive relationship between library quality and reading achievement (McQuillan, 1998; Lance, 2004, and studies reviewed in Krashen, 2004).
Excellent annual report aligned with Iowa library standards.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/31/2012
The current release allows you to explore globally the geographic distributions for any terrestrial vertebrate species (as well as North American freshwater fish). Specifically you are able to: Display expert range maps, point occurrence records, records from study areas such as reserves and larger regions. These are shown as layers on maps, and a layer control widget allows you to adjust ordering, visibility, etc . Retrieve a list of species for the vicinity of any location worldwide using the species list tool. Simply set search radius and group of interest, and right click (control-click on Macs) your mouse button on a point of the map.
Five Handy Things You Can Do with Google's New Knowledge Graph Search
Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results. Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search.
Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work? | MindShift
With all these direct applications for learning, it’s easy to justify using mobile devices in school. But what real and lasting effect will they have on the “formal” learning equation?
Can E-Books Make Society and Education Better? | Online Universities
As recently as 2007, there was note of an alarming trend of young people not reading
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/30/2012
Jennifer LaGarde's library collaboration page and planner.
International Center for Academic Integrity
The International Center for Academic Integrity seeks to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers, and administrators. This website contains information about the Center and its activities, with a members area hosting resources and information about ICAI projects and a ListServ for exchanging ideas and information. Become a member today and learn how your academic institution can gain access to all of the online resources provided by ICAI!
Free World Book Day App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch includes six short stories written especially for World Book Day by: Malorie Blackman, Neil Gaiman, Anthony Horowitz, Sophie McKenzie and Rachel Vincent.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/29/2012
Free animated video clips and information demonstrating online safety and security.
Teachers Connecting with Teacher Librarians - Information Literacy
Resources to encourage collaboration between teachers and teacher librarians.
National Library of Australia - eResources
Arts & Humanities
Asia Pacific
Biography
Business & Commerce
Communications & Media
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Genealogy
Law & Politics
Librarianship & Archives
Science & Technology
Social Scienceshttp://d97cooltools.blogspot.fr/2012/05/thinglink-in-classroom.html
a playlist of resources for using ThingLink in the classroom.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/28/2012
Library IWB resources
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/26/2012
One Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt - QR Codes
ISTE webinar wiki - QR codes in the classroom.
Murder Under the Microscope - Scan : February 2011, Page 44
A review of four years of successful online eco-mystery investigations.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/25/2012
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. These cultural treasures include manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.
The Best Twitter #ReplaceAWordWithLibrarian Hashtag Tweets! (SLIDESHOW)
Augmented Reality - a guide from JISC RSC (Regional Support Centres)
AR can be used to bring still pictures to life, point the camera on a mobile device at a still image and it will trigger a video. By following a few steps described here (with examples) you can create your own learning materials.
Alternatively AR can be triggered by location. Point your device at a pre-detemined location to retrieve a video or information you have prepared for learning.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/24/2012
What’s a Readlist? A group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.
At the JISC RSC North West ‘Want your learners to be more independent?’ event I felt I had my eyes well and truly opened to the benefits of, and dare I say it, the necessity of embedding information literacy skills into learning provision – whatever form that provision that may take.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/23/2012
Welcome to the ‘iPad in Education’ web site - concerned with using Apple’s iPad for learning and teaching. Although this is based in the UK, the site’s content will reflect practice from other counties and contexts in order to explore and learn from a wide field. I am Ian Wilson (www.ianwilson.biz) a freelance Apple Education Mentor based in the north west of England (Twitter: @Ian__Wilson). I have set up this site as I believe the iPad signals the opportunity for a transformation in how technology is used in schools, colleges and universities. I am interested in looking at all age ranges, all abilities across all areas of the curriculum and keen to see if the iPad makes technology more transparent and cross-curricular as it should be.
Flip This: Bloom’s Taxonomy Should Start with Creating | MindShift
"I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong.
I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. It certainly identifies the different levels of complexity. But its organizing framework is dead wrong. Here’s why."Search Tip for Students: Try Predicting Your Search Results| The Committed Sardine
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/22/2012
Effective Human Rights Education Tools for Teachers: United for Human Rights
Education Package, Materials for Teachers & Educators: Youth For Human Rights
Bowker - British Kids Read Their e-Books On a Bigger Screen, says New Study from Bowker
Interesting statistics on devices used for reading ebooks by age and on the buying of ebooks in last 6 months, within sex and age.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/21/2012
Amnesty International - 50th Anniversary Infographics - JESS3
How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School | Edutopia
8 Great Free Web Resources Focused on Using the iPad in Education | Emerging Education Technology
Busting the Myths of Digital Learning
Survey from JogNog reveals schools unprepared to support digital learning - EdTech Times
Infographic: Who supplies the world’s weapons? - Amnesty International Australia
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/20/2012
Information Literacy Resources | November Learning#_#_
quiz and answers, how to evaluate web pages, how to find a publisher on a web page
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/19/2012
Problem-solving activities related to the Transit of Venus.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/18/2012
AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer
Build your own webquest
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Kids' Stuff - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Port Arthur - Classroom Resources
Unit and lesson plans and resource lists about Australia's convict past.
TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing
Use engaging videos to create customized lessons.
You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.
Watch the video to learn how.Knowledge – Inside Search – Google
A collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they're connected to one another.
beehive.govt.nz - Speech Notes: Raising achievement for all in Budget 2012
Hekia Parata budget speech education
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/17/2012
K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work | Edutopia
Research tool - Google Docs Help
Google Docs has add a research tool to facilitate web searches. Filters for images, quotes, license, etc. help limit the search.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/16/2012
21st Century Information Fluency | Scoop.it
“Learning to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically.”
Curated by Dennis T OConnorKHSD Home :: Instruction Division :: Instruction Department :: Information Literacy
Information Literacy
Skills Groups and Accompanying Assignments
Created by Librarians from the Kern High School District and Bakersfield College12 Ways To Use Google Search In School, By Degree Of Difficulty | Edudemic
I’ve been completely obsessed with Google’s new mini-site devoted to finding better ways to incorporate proper web searches into the classroom. Dubbed ‘Search Education,’Google’s new site has an array of lesson plans, videos (check a sample out below), concept maps, and other tools designed to help any educator properly integrate Google.
This is just the logical next step for the search (and basically everything else) behemoth as Google pushes its way into the classroom.
As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty.
So, if you consider yourself and / or your students Google experts, you should try out the more advanced plans. If you don’t know what ‘boolean’ means, then you probably should start with the more basic stuff.
The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google. Check out the site for more info!12 Valuable Wordle Tips You Must Read
…Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 1 | 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning
In this series of posts I will cover:
12 Tips in Using Wordle (Some you may now… but other you may not.)
Over 10o ways to use Word Clouds in the classroom
There is more to Word Clouds then Wordle… other awesome word cloud generators
Beyond word clouds… cool sites and applications to integrate word clouds
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/15/2012
A rubric to determine how well a lesson aligns with the inquiry learning process. According to the rubric, there are 8 dimensions of inquiry
WaveMATH - Yale New Haven Teachers Institute 2008
Animations and diagrams showing different types of wave motions.
110,000 books, 500 teachers, 20 schools, 11 libraries, and only 2 librarians... Try as we might, we can't be everywhere. Want to connect more kids with books through technology? Want to incorporate 21st century tools into your lessons? Need to advocate for your library? Follow our blog and we will teach you on the fly...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/14/2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/13/2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Digital Citizenship 05/12/2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/11/2012
About ANCIL | A New Curriculum for Information Literacy
ANCIL aims to help undergraduates develop an advanced, reflective level of information literacy which will enable them not just to find information, but to evaluate, analyse and use academic material independently and judiciously.
Download the curriculum and explanatory notesGetting the most out of library & LRC induction, 9th May 2012 - RSCWMWiki
John B. Thompson: Where Is Publishing Headed?: The Future Of Books In 7 Easy Steps
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/10/2012
Printable Graphic Organizers for Teachers, Grades K-12 - TeacherVision.com
Tons of Web 2.0 resources for school librarians.
School Library Websites: Examples of Effective Practice
Lots of ideas and musts for the school library environments not limited to the website alone.
Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.
With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers--whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.Great Scavenger Hunt Contest | Kay Cassidy | Diigo
Good ideas to get kids reading
Digital Storytelling online resources...a list of websites and ideas to get you started.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/09/2012
easTech: Dealing with distraction, 5 tools to help you get things done
Tools to help students focus and get assignments completed.
School Library Staffing &
PSSA Reading & Writing Scores
From
Assessing the Infrastructure Needs of
21st Century School Library Programs
A National Leadership Grant research project
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/08/2012
Dr. Lodge McCammon is a Specialist in Curriculum and Contemporary Media at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation (www.fi.ncsu.edu). His work in education began in 2003 at Wakefield High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he taught Civics and AP Economics. He finished a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2008 where his work at The Friday Institute continues to bring innovative practices to students, teachers and schools. He developed a teaching and professional development process called FIZZ which encourages and models best practices in implementing user-generated video and online publishing in the classroom to enhance standards-based lessons. He is also a studio composer who writes standards-based songs, with supporting materials, about advanced curriculum for K-12 classrooms. More information, user-generated videos, and songs can be found at Lodge’s website (www.iamlodge.com).
videos
AUHSDteacherLibrarians - 100 Things
100 things kids will miss if they don't have a school librarian in their school...taken from AASL 2011.
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Teacher Librarian Links 05/07/2012
iPad Literature Circles - Literature Circles
Conducting Literature Circle with mobile devices such as the iPad, not only provides immediate access to a diverse selection of books, but also to reference materials, research tools, interactive maps, and a slew of creation and dynamic notebook apps. Within this single device, students can quickly check the meaning of a word, run a quick background check on a historic event, or articulate their understanding of text with a range of multimedia apps. Teachers can now easily differentiate the processes students can use to demonstrate understanding.
As with any "artistic decision," there will be consequences, which is that not everyone has a superhuman memory and/or the time to reread Divergent before reading Insurgent. Early readers of Insurgent have understandably had some trouble recalling all the necessary information to really be situated in the world of Insurgent. In order to help with this horrible thing I have done to you, I wrote this GIANT post to remind you of all the characters in Divergent, how you know them, and what happened at the end of Divergent.
50 most inspiring quotes about books and reading | Ebook Friendly
The quotes we’ve put together in this post are not the most famous ones, but all of them have one outstanding merit: they are highly inspiring to rediscover the pleasure of reading (if you forgot how it tastes) or simply to feel the need to reach for a book – now.
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