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Adobe Slate and other new storytelling platforms
I’ve been in love with the elegance and free-ness of the Adobe Voice app for nearly a year now. It’s one of the easiest strategies I’ve seen for creating effective video stories. This week, Adobe introduced an equally elegant tool for digital publishing–for those times you want to tell a non-video story, largely based on [...]
Are you building something bold?
Are you engaged in integrating 1:1 technology? project-based learning instruction? makerspace learning? With all that making going on and all the thoughtful tech integration you share in your blogs, webinars and on your sites, my guess is that so many of you are very eligible for SLJ’s Build Something Bold award. Sponsored by LEGO® Education, [...]
Smithsonian TTribune for differentiating and engaging reading (& global conversation!)
Looking for high quality news for all of your readers? The Smithsonian’s TTribune now offers K-12 teachers and librarians a carefully selected array of news content to meet the needs of all readers, including those who speak (or are learning) Spanish. The free content, includes text, images, audio and video–all available on any of these rich [...]
YouTube introduces Cards
Google recently announced the addition of Cards for YouTube. The interactive feature allows video creators to strategically point viewers to videos, merchandise, playlists, websites and more from the Video Manager. While the feature is aimed at business, it offers features that easily translate for high school student projects, marketing school events and for supporting fundraisers. [...]
Pivot and TakePart: network(ing) for social action
I recently discovered Pivot, a relatively new television network devoted to presenting entertainment that inspires and compels social change. Its message to its viewers: What you watch does make a difference. Launched by Participant Media, the network and its digital sister site TakePart, target a millennial audience and conscious consumers. Though not all kids will [...]
CS (Computer Science) First: for middle school libraries, and your CS program
This looks like just the type of program a middle school librarian could love. CS, or Computer Science First is a free Google program designed to increase student exposure to computer science education through after-school, in-school, and summer programs in a club approach run by teachers and/or community volunteers. CS First works towards its goal [...]
If you do school library research, please help us birth a community
I am thrilled to be a member of AASL’s Community of Scholars Task Force and equally thrilled about our plans to move forward in creating a truly meaningful community. Discussed at last year’s CLASS (Causality: School Libraries and Student Success) Summit, the project is realized and described as one of three goals in the CLASS [...]
LinkedIn: an underused K12 search tool?
For a variety of reasons, filters included, social search tools are underused in schools. We usually encourage use of our subscription databases and share effective strategies for leveraging search engines like Google, but in my experience, Twitter, Scoop.it, Pinterest and other tools also offer rich opportunities for learning, discovery, sharing and searching. While LinkedIn is [...]
CyArk: digitally preserving and sharing our vulnerable heritage
We’re losing the sites and the stories faster than we can physically preserve them. Ben Kacyra Earthquakes and natural disasters are partly to blame. But human factors–arson, acid rain, urban sprawl, terrorism and war–accelerate destruction of our global historic treasures. Rather than seeing this as a losing battle, Ben Kacyra, inventor of a groundbreaking 3D [...]
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