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Rhondda Powling

Crafting New Narratives of Community, Connecting, Creating, and Par... - 0 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 16 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 16 Jul 12
     
    Slideshare: Crafting New Narratives of Community, Connecting, Creating, and Participatory Learning at The Unquiet Library: A Makerspace Culture of Learning A First Outline of Our New Chapter for 2012-2013 | Presented to Dr. Adrian Thomason, July 16, 2012 | Buffy J. HamiltonCC "Defining Makerspace A place where people learn to use tools and materials and can develop creative projects Can be embedded inside an existing Makerspace organization or standalone on its own Adaptable-can be shaped by educational goals as well as students' creative interests"
Mansel Wells

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 20 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Mansel Wells on 20 Mar 08
     
    Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. * It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! * Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. * The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection. * No membership required.
Cathy Oxley

12 Reasons Teachers should use Diigo - 1 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 12 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 12 Sep 12
     
    Diigo stands for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff." It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your 'favourites' online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this.
Mansel Wells

NYPL, Digital Collections - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • Mansel Wells on 15 May 08
     
    Access using a NY library card. This site enables connection to Tumblebooks.com where there is animated talking picture books.
Rhondda Powling

National Literacy Trust research reveals widening gender gap in boys' and girls' attitu... - 0 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 08 Feb 11
     
    Children, Reading Champions, Reading Connects, Reading The Game, Schools & teaching, Words for Work, Young People
Cathy Oxley

Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 11/1/2008 - School Library Journal - 1 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • We’ve created and invested in library media centers—and, in recent years, their Web sites—with the expectation that our students will come to these places. Sorry folks, but the old paradigm is broken. It’s time to become part of the Google generation. If we polled our students, we’d probably discover that they’re busy searching online, and maybe IMing or texting each other. Our school libraries and Web sites are the last things on most kids’ minds. At some point, we have to admit that our creations have become irrelevant to today’s students. There isn’t time for business as usual.
  • We don’t need a revision. We need a reinvention.
  • If we want to connect with the latest generation of learners and teachers, we have to totally redesign the library from the vantage point of our users—our thinking has to do a 180-degree flip.
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  • What we’re proposing is bold. Gone are the days when we can afford to exist on the periphery. The new learning commons is at the very center of teaching and learning. No longer will the library be something that students and teachers need to remember to come to—instead it will be integrated into their lives. Finally, the library will become the hub of teaching and learning—a place that everyone owns and contributes to—one giant conversation that’s both a social and a learning network. Face it, folks. We’re at a crossroads. Doing nothing, trying to shore up the status quo, or attempting to resuscitate a dead model aren’t feasible choices. It’s like mom saying, “Either eat your spinach or go to bed.” We may not like it, but let’s start eating.
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