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What’s in your pocket?
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 [...]
Translator is here. Forget the four walls thing.
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 [...]
Map of Life goes mobile
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 [...]
Tweeting response to the NEA Opportunity Dashboard
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, [...]
On capturing evidence in a few new containers
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” [...]
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. [...]
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