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Mansel Wells

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    Blog About Books Presented by National Geographic for Kids, DogEared is a blog about books-good books, funny books, adventure books; books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places . . . every kind of book that kids enjoy. Why is the site called "DogEared"? You know when you read a book and you turn the top edge of a page over to mark your place? That's called a "dog-ear"! Students mark ("dog-ear") the Web page so they can return to it often in order to read real kids' reviews and recommendations. They also share their own opinions and create their own reading wish list-as if it were their own online book club.
Mansel Wells

DogEared Book Blog - National Geographic Kids - 0 views

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    Blog About Books Presented by National Geographic for Kids, DogEared is a blog about books-good books, funny books, adventure books; books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places . . . every kind of book that kids enjoy. Why is the site called "DogEared"? You know when you read a book and you turn the top edge of a page over to mark your place? That's called a "dog-ear"! Students mark ("dog-ear") the Web page so they can return to it often in order to read real kids' reviews and recommendations. They also share their own opinions and create their own reading wish list-as if it were their own online book club.
George Spicer

Number line interactive - 0 views

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    SUPERB! Place the numbers on the number line. Loads of levels. Negative numbers and decimals. Play against the clock for a score. My class's favourite warm up, useful throughout school from year 3 to year 6.
Rhondda Powling

Free Sites to Promote Your eBook - GalleyCat - 0 views

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    If you are looking for new places where to go and promote your bran new ebook, here is a good collection.
Rhondda Powling

Create infographics | infogr.am - 2 views

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    This is an online tool for creating interactive charts and graphs.There are four basic chart types that you can create on Infogr.am; bar, pie, line, and matrix. Each chart type can be edited to use any spreadsheet information that you want to upload to your Infogr.am account. The information in that spreadsheet will be displayed in your customized chart. When you place your cursor over your completed chart the spreadsheet information will appear in small pop-up window. The charts can then be embedded into your blog, website, or wiki.
Rhondda Powling

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

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    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"
Rhondda Powling

What's new in news aggregation? | Media network | Guardian Professional - 1 views

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    There's nothing new about curating the news and aggregating content. It's always been part of the role of journalism, selecting and presenting information, and editors have always done it. Aggregation is not curation. Aggregators pull together, and allow you to assemble, news from a variety of sources in one place. Those that also curate the news spotlight stories and often package content based on algorithm and/or the work of editors (ie there's some type of judgment involved and usually context created).
Mansel Wells

Education Week's Digital Directions: Checking Sources - 0 views

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    As the Internet has evolved into a major source of information for students researching history and social studies, it also has become a place where hidden agendas and false information can trip up both students new to a topic and teachers searching for credible sources of historical data.
Rhondda Powling

Global Voices Online - 0 views

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    "Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online attampting to shine light on places and people other media often ignore"
Rhondda Powling

Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities - 0 views

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    "Connexions is:a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute"
Cathy Oxley

Illuminations: Dynamic Paper - 2 views

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    "Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."
Rhondda Powling

250+ Places for Free Books Online - 4 views

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    Gizmo's Freeware provides a list of over 250 sites that offer free ebooks for download or online viewing. The list is organised alphabetically and in genres.
Rhondda Powling

School Text On Suicide Labelled Dangerous - 1 views

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    What better place to discuss tough issues than in a class with a teacher and peers?
Rhondda Powling

BTFA Home - 1 views

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    BTFA was created by Teresa Schauer, a district librarian in South Texas. Whilst creating book trailers she also discovered there wasn't really a place online to find and share other free book trailers, so decided to create BTFA.
Cathy Oxley

BTFA - Book Trailers for All - 1 views

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    The go-to place for sharing, viewing and downloading trailers for children's and YA books.
Cathy Oxley

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

  • 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.
Mansel Wells

http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com - 0 views

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    This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.
Mansel Wells

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web - 0 views

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