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It’s blocked: Join us for a discussion about filters tomorrow
I am excited about tomorrow’s Emerging Tech webinar hosted by Michelle Luhtala and featuring Doug Johnson. Please consider joining us in this interactive conversation. Here are the details: Wednesday, Sep. 16 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time It’s Blocked! How Internet Filters Impact K-12 Learning Presented by Doug Johnson, blogger and author; Dr. Joyce Valenza, Director of […]
Better World Education: a curriculum for leading kids to lead global change
Better World Education is an online learning space designed to engage learners and coordinate teachers in leading positive change in the world. It’s a globally adaptable academic curriculum for global good. Built by reweave, a US-registered nonprofit, the attractive format and curriculum focuses on social, emotional and academic learning goals using three key layers: Empathy […]
Free school library advocacy packs from Bound to Stay Bound
ALA is offering free school library advocacy packs.Sponsored by Bound to Stay Bound Books (BTSB), the packs contain tools to spread the word about the many ways school librarians are transforming teaching and learning. They include 25 copies of a limited print edition of the digital magazine supplement AASL produced in collaboration with American Libraries, as […]
A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee
AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day is coming up on September 30th. Many thanks to the AASL Banned Websites Awareness Committee for this important guest post. Please spread the word as well as these critical IF resources with your school communities. It’s happened to all of us– we’re at school trying to access the perfect website […]
Global Collaboration Day
My guess is that opening your library, and your school culture, to global opportunities is already high on your to-do list for 2015/16. Here are a couple of ways to get started now, no matter where in the world you work. I the share news of two major free events from organizers Lucy Gray and […]
Google introduces Voice Typing for Docs (and it transcribes too!)
Hooray! I rely heavy on voice typing for messaging and searching on my phone. I type pretty darn fast, but I talk and think way faster than I type and I just lose ideas before they make the page. Along with several other enhancements (a See New Changes feature and research tools that I will […]
Pixar in a box
This week Khan Academy launched a new project that will absolutely engage your math, science and media teachers, and young filmmakers as well. Pixar In A Box is an new online curriculum that analyzes how the studio fuses art, tech, science, engineering, and math to develop top-shelf animated cinema. Created with middle and high school […]
Old Maps on new devices
Teachers and lovers of history and geography are going to love this new app. Old Maps, available for iPhone, iPad or any Android device through Google Play, allows mobile access to more than 250,000 high resolution, historical maps from the 15th to the 20th century, from across the world. Only a few years ago, we […]
Interactive presentations: a round-up
Sometimes it just hard to know. When you look at the faces around you, in your audience or your classroom, or increasingly, in remote spaces with folks you cannot see, you just don’t really know if anyone is with you. What do they understand? What are the issues? If they are on their devices, are […]
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