Dear readers, The folks at LJ/SLJ just informed all of the resident bloggers of the news that our sites are migrating to a new server. Yeah! This will mean our back-end, old server woes will be resolved. This will also mean that the whole blogging crew will not likely be posting till the end of [...]
PLN news: TLChatLive & our new TLChat Community
By on December 18, 2012
On Monday, December 10th (2nd Monday of the month), the topic for our live TLChat was Supporting Teachers with the Common Core. In case you missed this nearly overwhelming share festival, visit the archive of nearly 500 tweets. Here’s a little summary of a few of my favorites: @NikkiDRobertson: TLChat is always going on 24/7 [...]
Focusing in on authors who pin
By on December 16, 2012
We’ve followed their blogs and tweets. Now many of us are following their boards. Through Pinterest, some of our favorite authors are sharing fan art; previewing book covers and chapters; allowing us a lens on the inspirations for their writing; illustrating the background and locations for their books; suggesting literary extension activities; revealing their hobbies [...]
Four tools for determining web cred
By on December 9, 2012
Not all information tasks are the same. And because sources that may be perfect for analyzing Hamlet’s motivation, may not be right for examining what’s happening now in Damascus or how far down we might fall from the fiscal cliff, learners need new credibility assessment strategies. As teachers and librarians we are used to discussing [...]
Four tools for determining web cred
By on December 9, 2012
Not all information tasks are the same. And because sources that may be perfect for analyzing Hamlet’s motivation, may not be right for examining what’s happening now in Damascus or how far down we might fall from the fiscal cliff, learners need new credibility assessment strategies.
As teachers and librarians we are used [...]
MOOCs for kids too
By on December 2, 2012
When SLJ recently asked me to reflect on the edtech trends of the year, one of the trends that first came to mind was the emergence of the MOOC. MOOCs (massive open online courses) are about open, participatory, distributed, networked learning. They are sandboxes for independent, lifelong learners. Folks have been talking about and testing [...]
MOOCs for kids too
By on December 2, 2012
When SLJ recently asked me to reflect on the edtech trends of the year, one of the trends that first came to mind was the emergence of the MOOC.
MOOCs (massive open online courses) are about open, participatory, distributed, networked learning. They are sandboxes for independent, lifelong learners.
Folks have been talking about and testing MOOCs [...]
Get ready for the Smackdown!
By on November 26, 2012
On Monday, December 3rd at 8PM Eastern, TLCafé hosts our 2nd annual Smackdown/Open Mic night. Please plan on visiting or participating! You don’t have to be a librarian to play. We welcome classroom teachers, tech directors, administrators, enthusiastic partners of every persuasion! I’ll be sharing my trend list and some of my favorite discoveries and [...]
Get ready for the Smackdown!
By on November 26, 2012
On Monday, December 3rd at 8PM Eastern, TLCafé hosts our 2nd annual Smackdown/Open Mic night. Please plan on visiting or participating!
You don’t have to be a librarian to play. We welcome classroom teachers, tech directors, administrators, enthusiastic partners of every persuasion!
I’ll be sharing my trend list and some of my favorite discoveries and so will [...]
Sticky research metaphors?
By on November 25, 2012
Sticky research metaphors?
By on November 25, 2012
On returning from Doha
By on November 22, 2012
I was honored to be asked to keynote at last week’s IASL Conference in Doha, Qatar–The Shifting Sands of School Librarianship. My first full IASL was an experience I will never forget. It was an opportunity to develop new relationships, to share with school librarians from all over the world, to discover our commonalities, and [...]
On returning from Doha
By on November 22, 2012
I was honored to be asked to keynote at last week’s IASL Conference in Doha, Qatar–The Shifting Sands of School Librarianship.
My first full IASL was an experience I will never forget. It was an opportunity to develop new relationships, to share with school librarians from all over the world, to discover our commonalities, and to [...]
On returning from Doha
By on November 22, 2012
I was honored to be asked to keynote at last week’s IASL Conference in Doha, Qatar–The Shifting Sands of School Librarianship.
My first full IASL was an experience I will never forget, an opportunity to develop new relationships, to share with school librarians from all over the world, to discover our commonalities, and to recognize the [...]
Wikipedia and JSTOR partner
By on November 21, 2012
In a Wikimedia blog post this week, Steven Walling shared news of an exciting partnership.
JSTOR, that non-profit consortium-based database, beloved by high school and college students everywhere for its scholarly, authoritative content, will now provide the 100 most active Wikipedia editors with
free access to the complete archive collections on JSTOR, including more than 1,600 [...]
Wikipedia and JSTOR partner
By on November 21, 2012
In a Wikimedia blog post this week, Steven Walling shared news of an exciting partnership. JSTOR, that non-profit consortium-based database, beloved by high school and college students everywhere for its scholarly, authoritative content, will now provide the 100 most active Wikipedia editors with free access to the complete archive collections on JSTOR, including more than [...]
Sandy and media literacy
By on November 4, 2012
. . . one of the things that’s now becoming clear is the major role that social media played during and after the storm. Sites like Twitter and Facebook were, for some, incredibly useful tools. They were ways to keep up with friends and relatives and neighbors in a stressful time, but they were also [...]
Sandy and media literacy
By on November 4, 2012
. . . one of the things that’s now becoming clear is the major role that social media played during and after the storm. Sites like Twitter and Facebook were, for some, incredibly useful tools. They were ways to keep up with friends and relatives and neighbors in a stressful time, but they were also [...]
I love my phone. Suburban survival tips. Siri rocks. Sandy sucks.
By on November 3, 2012
New from Pew: How Teens do Research in the Digital World
By on November 1, 2012
This morning, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project released How Teens Do Research in the Digital World.
This one really speaks to the need for digital literacy skills and the type of instruction we are all about.
Conducted by Pew, in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project, the [...]
