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Fake News or Free Speech: Is There a Right to be Misinformed? (Free webinar!)
I am delighted to participate in a free webinar next week that reaches across libraryland. Fake News or Free Speech: Is There a Right to be Misinformed? will be a live session at ALA Annual this summer, but we’re presenting a preview on Wednesday, April 25 courtesy of the Freedom to Read Foundation and the Office of […]
Google’s new Talk to Books: Semantic search for book and idea discovery
I am truly excited about sharing this new approach to search! Imagine if you had the power to ask authors across time and disciplines your most burning questions or for their best advice. Now you can. This week TED curator Chris Anderson and futurist Ray Kurzweil introduced Talk to Books. The feature was developed by a Google Research team […]
Your YAs are going to want to hear this: Audiobook SYNC is back
It’s back! Now in its 9th annual season, Audiobook SYNC just announced its free book pairings for teen listeners for this spring and summer. You can dig into the first of the weekly pairings on April 26th. at 7:00 PM Eastern. Each week from April 26 through July 25, SYNC will release two high-interest titles for young adult readers. […]
One Book One School/Book Club Solutions
When I left Springfield, I had at least 15 copies each of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Soloist and Unbroken lying around. A few copies of each were on the shelves; many more were crowded on the bottom shelves in our workroom, several copies deep. What do we do with the leftover books […]
A video visit with your academic librarian: an idea for your seniors
One of my exceptional former students, Lawrence (NJ) High School librarian Ewa Elliot, hosted a meeting a couple of weeks back. She invited middle and high school, public and academic librarians to have a conversation about Ewa scheduled time for us to chat about: our current programs across the board preparing students for life after […]
PuppetMaster: An app to inspire animated storytelling
I’ve been exploring the new PuppetMaster app and I am enchanted. I see serious potential for this free, intuitive, open-ended tool to encourage creativity across a wide range of ages, from pre-school to adult! PuppetMaster allows children to animate anything and to record their action and sound to create movies. It encourages the creation of visual art in any medium and […]
Loom: Screencasting and sharing so simplified!
I am thrilled to discover Loom, a free screencasting tool available as a handy Chrome extension. Loom offers three recording options: screen and camera, screen only and camera only. You may record your full desktop or just a tab using the familiar Cancel, Pause or Finish commands. I love that you can drag the circular camera screen around as you record […]
Seeing AI: Leveraging artificial intelligence to better view the world
I’ve been writing about apps for a long time, but they are not of equal importance. Microsoft’s free Seeing AI app may be a game changer for people with visual impairments. The research project is designed to turn “turn the visual world into an audio experience,” narrating the world for those who cannot see it, in real […]
Kapwing: a very sweet web-based video editing suite
It solves so many problems. And it is sooooo easy. I just discovered Kapwing. The free web-based video editing suite offers nine features (and promises more to come) and I am so excited about sharing it with my students and using it in my teaching. It’s a kind of media Swiss army knife perfect for schools. Kapwing […]
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