Technology
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. [...]
As education technology has evolved, so, too, have the kinds of digital tools that school librarians use with their students. More than 750 school librarians responded to SLJ’s survey, representing K–12 public and private schools across the country. According to the data, they make the most of what they have, learning one day and sharing that knowledge the next.
McGraw-Hill’s professional's ebook catalog of more than than 5,000 business, consumer, education, technical, and medical titles is now available for K–12 school libraries and public libraries worldwide on OverDrive. Also, some 700 of McGraw-Hill’s 2012 and 2013 offerings will be offered at special rates.
EducationSuperHighway is launching a comprehensive national effort to upgrade broadband access in America’s schools, funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup:Education organization, the Gates Foundation, and several other groups.
Young Adult Library Services Association members can apply for 10 $1000 mini-grants for use during Teen Tech Week on March 9-15, 2014. The award is funded by Best Buy.
Seventeen-year old Zarin Rahman suspected that the time she spent staring at screens was affecting her mood and school work. So the 12th grader at Brookings (SD) High School decided to conduct her own study.
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 [...]
It's a year-long process, but after watching hours upon hours of apps and debating their finer points, we have come up with "SLJ's Top Ten Apps 2013." Our list includes innovative works of stunning quality and depth, along with some familiar characters that host loads of engaging interactivity and game play.
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 [...]
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