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How do you keep up? Part 3: A new season of Webinars (and live chat)
In the past couple of posts about keeping up with news and trends relevant to practice, we looked at harnessing social media in the form of portals for sharing slide presentations and curation sites for current awareness. Now let’s turn to the fabulous and nearly overwhelming array of webinar/conferency-type professional development available to you free [...]
Pinterest becomes more social
Yesterday, Pinterest announced a new collaborative feature–conversations/messaging around shared pins. Combined with the Send a Pin feature added last spring, users can now share and comment on visual discoveries with multiple friends, colleagues and students without having to leave the site or app they are currently exploring. To engage in a Pinterest converation, after choosing [...]
How do you keep up? Part 2: Scoop.it (and other newsy tools) for current awareness.
In my last post I shared how presentation platforms/communities contribute to my professional learning, sharing, and growth. Also in my arsenal are tools that, in the old days, we would have called current awareness services. These curation tools allow you to follow others who share your interests and to push newsfeeds to your inbox after [...]
How do you keep up? Part 1: slideshare & authorSTREAM
Whenever I share at a conference, I get asked a couple of questions: “How do you learn about all this stuff?” “How do you keep up?” Most of us did not learn strategies for the type of keeping up we now need to do when we were in library school. New tools for current awareness, [...]
#saveedshelf: a new model. Helping the developers on our team.
No secret. I am a huge fan of edshelf. Not only as a curation platform, but as a source of reviews, as a discovery tool, as a lens on the apps and tools other educators I respect are using, as an attractive dashboard for my stakeholders–with the added value of descriptions, tutorials and so much [...]
Librarians wanted for smashing, blending, toolkit building.
Tell me if you’ve seen this happen. A classroom teacher or a teacher librarian friend attends a workshop or a webinar about a certain app, masters it and tries to use it, a lot. There are likely better tools for the various tasks at hand, but they aren’t easily discoverable. Pre-service training does not prepare [...]
So you think you know your phone
Confession: I love my iPhone and I thought I knew how to use it, until I attended Michelle Luhtala’s latest edWeb webinar. I couldn’t make the session live, but I am actually kinda glad I watched it first in archived form. The recording allowed me to pause and take a good look at the features [...]
liberi.o: from Docs to pub
My favorite third party solutions for e-publishing include Issuu, FlipSnack, and ePubBud for kiddos. But, if you or your students do any serious writing using Google Docs, you’ve probably longed for an instant strategy for sharing your text masterpieces as ebooks. Liber.io, just out of private beta, may be a serious answer. The program allows [...]
A round-up of interactive video options
We take for granted that we can interact with text, but up until recently it’s been a challenge to interact (read/write/talk) with media. I last looked at tools for annotating and interacting with video more than a year ago. The field has changed a bit. Why interact with video? Being able to interact with video [...]
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