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Common Craft goes to school
For many of us, Common Craft has been a learning fixture. We’ve relied on those delightfully simple and brief introductions to explain complex ideas from apps to zombies. We’ve shared them in professional development sessions. We’ve used them to introduce concepts in digital citizenship. They helped us introduce new technologies to classes. When we needed to [...]
Remixing TED with Popcorn Maker
I’ve written about how we’ve use Mozilla Popcorn Maker to add life (pop-ups, maps, images, text, Wikipedia articles) to our German textbooks and to annotate Cold War propaganda films. This past week, we’ve explored its use in close reading of TED talks, with an eye toward deconstructing what makes a good speaker and a good speech. [...]
Matthew and Sherry introduce GeniusCon
Let’s use our ideas and voices together to make our schools better. Let’s show the world our genius. When the Busy Librarian, Matthew Winner and TheLibraryFanatic.com, Sherry Gick shared their dream of a kid-powered GeniusCon at the AASL Unconference, I was so excited. I asked if they’d allow me to help spread the word by posting [...]
Google’s Reverse Image Search now pops up in Chrome
There are those times when a student wants to use and cite an image, but the original creator of the image and other important details are not exactly easy to identify. Google’s reverse image search is a wonderful tool, but it’s a two-step process, requiring you to open Google and drag the image, or copy [...]
CC 4.0 is here with more readable, more global, translated licenses
In a BoingBoing post yesterday, Cory Doctorow shared Creative Commons’ release of its version 4.0 licenses. Released earlier this week, the new licenses are the result of a collaborative two-year process with ambitious goals. Cory summarizes the 4.0 improvements: They work in over 60 jurisdictions out of the box, without having to choose different versions depending on which country [...]
Emily’s PLN choice (and my own network rut)
What teacher doesn’t want to share their most awesome lessons? Emily is home for Thanksgiving and I’ve never seen her this charged about her teaching before. I’ve never seen her this charged about networking before. What I discovered is that Emily’s PLN journey is very different from mine. Our conversations revealed that I haven’t questioned [...]
Our 3rd Annual Open Mic Smackdown!
The end of the year draws year. And it’s that time again! That’s right. Put the Thanksgivakkuh dishes away and get ready to smackdown. Librarians and teachers and other friends are invited to join me, Gwyneth and Tiff this coming Monday night for another exciting virtual, karaoke-style, smackdown! This is an opportunity for you to [...]
Carolyn goes to the White House
It’s not every day a teacher librarian is invited to the White House. Last week, our own Carolyn Foote spent a day there as a Champion of Change. In her reflection, Carolyn contends that leadership begins with sharing your voice, with being connected: Any one of us can lead–any teacher– any librarian–any administrator and any [...]
Searching Google for contemporaneous news
A few years back, I mourned the loss of Google’s New Timeline. I still miss that beautiful visual presentation, but you can still use Google News to search contemporaneous news. Contemporaneous news offers students unfiltered, personal connection to the past and forces them to wrestle with issues of bias and historical perspective. Contemporaneous news focuses a media literacy [...]
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