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We’ve used digital scrapbooking tools for creatively exploring the lives of historical events and figures using primary sources, for creating portfolios, and for presenting research projects.
But I’ve been on the lookout for a scrapbooking tool that really works for school. The ones we’ve used the past couple of years have been a little clunky, a little [...]
A couple of posts ago I wrote about Mightybell as a new platform for curation and conversation.
Let’s test drive it.
I’ve set up a TLChat space. Stop in and play.
Add your favorite resources. Invite friends. Post questions. Start …
Confessions:
I used to be smarter. I used to be a better friend. I used to be able to get more done.
I think the same may be true of my students.
Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, describes the research on multitasking–it degrades [...]
It’s been a great year for our Somewhat Virtual Book Club. Actually, it seems easy to forget that it’s also been the first year for the SomeWhat Virtual Book Club.
In the fall I shared that we experimented by joining several schools around the country for monthly book discussions. Our kids were happy to make new [...]
Quick, before the school year ends, share this app with your teens and maybe their parents.
Quick, before the school year ends, download this app yourself. You’re going to want to start using the genre search to support readers’ advisory tomorrow!!!
YALSA just introduced its Teen Book Finder for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. (An Android [...]
It’s not Hollywood, New York, or Cannes, but for a particular group of students, this red carpet will be unforgettable.
This time of year we traditionally award students who over the year score the highest on their exams, attend class every day, participate the most in school activities, achieve [...]
It’s been a great year for the TL Café! Visit our archive to relive the memories or catch up on the active. But make sure you join us tomorrow night at 8 PM Eastern for the last Café of the school year.
Inspired by the forward-thinking Minnesota MEMO colleagues, it’s going to be pretty fabulous and [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, two companies released informative information literacy infographics.
1. EasyBib shared You are What You Write which revealed:
Students don’t always outline, they like citation management tools, and they tend to procrastinate when writing research projects.
Plagiarism is on the rise, according to an iParadigms/Turnitin study.
Of the ten most popular websites for student [...]
I asked Fran Bullington, fabulous blogger and media specialist from South Carolina, if she’d allow me to share the post she wrote yesterday in response to Matt Ricthel’s New York Times piece, Wasting Time is New Divide in Digital Era.
The article pointed to studies pointing to a new divide–that children of poverty spend more time [...]
New York Times Learning Network editor/blogger, Katherine Schulten, wrote asking me to share news of what promises to be a big day in the bibliotwittersphere.
Mark your calendars. Spread the word. Tell your colleagues. Tell the kiddos.
Let’s make this a huge international conversation. Let’s create the kind of feed that even the most Twitter-resistant reader will [...]
My old college buddy (SUNY Binghamton ‘75), author Michael Laser recently shared his latest young adult novel with me.
We chatted a bit about the world of YA literature and about what inspires him to write. He shared with me that his latest book was differently motivated. The Watermelon is a loss of innocence story in [...]
A recent conversation on ALA’s INFOLIT list–By graduation, what should K-12 students know about web search?–inspired me to update a post I did a few years back for eVOYA. I’ll share this letter with my seniors in the next couple of weeks.
Congratulations, Dear Senior Class,
Secretly, I wish I could go along with you to Penn [...]
Look for Google’s Knowledge Graph to roll out across all your (US English-speaking) searches –desktop, mobile, and tablet– in the coming days.
A couple of days ago, Google Blog announced the new Knowledge Graph feature. It just appeared in my search this morning and it just may be a search game changer. The Google engineers share [...]
