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Mansel Wells

Reference > Franklin Institute Educational Hotlists - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 20 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Mansel Wells on 20 Mar 08
     
    Reference Hotlist 1. The People History 2. Fun Trivia 3. Word Lab 4. RefDesk 5. Units of Measurement 6. LibrarySpot 7. 50 States and Capitals 8. Metric System and Unit Conversion 9. SpellWeb 10. New York Public Library 11. HyperHistory Online 12. Guide to Grammar and Writing 13. Biographies of Scientists 14. A Web of Online Dictionaries 15. SciCentral 16. HHMI's Virtual Lab 17. New York Times Books 18. The Time Zone Page 19. Time Zone Converter 20. A Dictionary of Units 21. Explorers of The World 22. WWWebster Dictionary 23. The Quotations Page 24. Research-It 25. American Sign Language Dictionary 26. Mad Scientist Network - An Ask-The-Expert Network 27. The Internet Public Library 28. The Library of Congress 29. Encyclopedia.Com 30. Encyclopedia of the Orient 31. Encarta Encyclopedia 32. Writing Style Guide 33. Columbia Guide to Online Style 34. "The Elements of Style" By William Strunk, Jr. 35. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 36. A Word A Day 37. TheFreeDictionary.com 38. Knowledge-finder.com 39. Environmental Directory 40. Science & Engineering Encyclopedia 41. Metric Conversion Table 42. Adventures of CyberBee
Rhondda Powling

What defines a modern library? Exciting conversations emerging from the Inter... - 1 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 03 Sep 12
     
    "From August 27th through the 30th, 2012 , young librarians from ten countries are convening in Latvia to inspire each other, solve common issues, and develop skillsets related to advocacy, communications, and service/project design."
Rhondda Powling

Abbreviations.com - 0 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 05 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 05 Jan 09
     
    This site offers acronyms, abbreviations, conversions, quotations, definitions and synonyms
Rhondda Powling

Global Voices Online - 0 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 25 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 25 Jan 09
     
    "Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online attampting to shine light on places and people other media often ignore"
Mansel Wells

Soople; easy search in Google. Advanced calculator - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 18 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Mansel Wells on 18 Jan 09
     
    a site that softens all the fantastic advanced functions Google offers. This site is meant for all those who are not yet familiar with all the possibilities of Google and all the required syntaxes. For instance, one can specify a search by one particuliar site or filetype( word, excel, powerpoint and pdf) or an imagesearch by size and type. Furthermore there are many useful tools Google offers; search in the latest news, look up definitions or use Google as a phonebook. And last but not least, the Calculator. This amazing tool let's you do all kind of (very advanced) calculations. Soople has added the unit-converter, which is based on this calculator, for the conversion of all the commmon units/measures (metersyards)
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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