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(Potential time suck alert.) Who would have expected knew that you could leverage the collective power of Google’s auto complete by mashing it up with a classic television game show? Based on the Google API, and developed by Justin Hook, Google Feud is the new age Family Feud. The game invites you to choose from […]
Lately the digital galleries we visit have gotten a little more real. 3D scanned images allow us to get really up close and personal and around every bend. Recently launched, Smithsonian X 3D presents a variety of 3D collections. The objects are viewed in the sophisticated Explorer browser that allows incredible opportunities to manipulate, measure, […]
I don’t know why I haven’t discovered this super handy tool before, but I am delighted to find it. If you love using stickies to organize your life, and you find yourself keep list after list, then Google Keep is a keeper. The digital sticky note service is available for the Web, for Android, and […]
Parents crave communication and engagement with their kids’ teachers. They want to know what’s going on. But crazy busy work and packed extracurricular schedules make communication a challenge. As educators we need a safe, private and efficient way to send the occasional update and reminder to our most important stakeholders. Remind (formerly Remind 101), a [...]
Say you were stranded on a desert island and you could only have one (or maybe two) apps, and recharging was not a problem. Which ones would you choose? Okay, so here are a few better questions. Look back over the course of the school year. Which of the apps on your phone or tablet [...]
I am convinced. Global is a critical new literacy. Now there’s no reason not to be global and to live it with learners. Just around a year ago I wrote a post about being blown away by Microsoft’s demo of Skype’s Translator service for real-time conversations with captions across language barriers. While it’s been available [...]
This app is going to make travel, field trips, birdwatching and walks in the woods, on the beach and in the park way more fun. One of my very favorite examples of crowd-sourced reference sites has been Yale University’s Map of Life . Using a wide variety of data sources, the biodiversity project endeavors to provide [...]
Greetings from Hershey and #PSLA15 where AASL President Terri Grief shared a plan for responding to the omission of school libraries from the NEA Opportunity Dashboard literature. Terri urges NEA members to contact local and state officials. She is composing an official letter to NEA and will meet with NEA leadership next week in Washington, [...]
If we’re truly reflective practitioners, we think a lot about what happens in our libraries. In the old days we counted things–books we circulated, people who walked through our doors. But there are richer measures and more clearer lenses through which we can share and through which we can learn answers to such questions as” [...]