I am adding Edcanvas to my toolkit for curating, flipping, and presenting. The flexible platform allows teachers and students to organize and share teaching and learning materials, or their research products, in the form of a attractive visual grids composed of tiles. Pick a topic, choose a theme (tile layout) and create a canvas by [...]
Pew offers new Libraries page
I was about to write an alert about several of the interesting new Pew Internet & American Life Project studies, when I discovered that it is now easier to discover those studies. The Pew Project recently added a Libraries page to their site, gathering research especially relevant to our community, as well as updates from [...]
Sticky research metaphors?
Sticky research metaphors?
Wikipedia and JSTOR partner
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
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 [...]
New from Pew: How Teens do Research in the Digital World
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 [...]







