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" Librarians need to shift their teaching from locating and accessing resources to evaluating, curating, and effectively using information-especially if it doesn't come from the library's walled garden."

"Students and teachers can login to the DocHub app (or DocHub.com) using their Google account. From there, it is possible to upload any PDF, text document, or Microsoft Office file from Drive, the web, or even your computer/Chromebook download folder. Once a document had been uploaded, students can highlight, draw, insert text boxes, and even incorporate sticky notes. These annotated PDFs can then be sent to Drive or even shared with a link. Unlike some other web-based annotation tools, all of the annotations remain with the PDF after it has been sent to Drive though the sticky notes only appear when shared with a link."

posts more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the mission of the World Digital Library is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. The WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource."

That is the case with the latest video from Kina Grannis and her song In Your Arms. It is Grannis singing in front of a very colorful moving background, which is nice on its own, but then you learn the background is made using nothing but jelly beans. 288,000 jelly beans in fact. As the video progresses the animation gets progressively more complicated and adventurous. By the end you can understand why it took 22 months to create, with a total of 30 people working for 1,357 hours.

stop motion jelly bean video - That is the case with the latest video from Kina Grannis and her song In Your Arms. It is Grannis singing in front of a very colorful moving background, which is nice on its own, but then you learn the background is made using nothing but jelly beans. 288,000 jelly beans in fact. As the video progresses the animation gets progressively more complicated and adventurous. By the end you can understand why it took 22 months to create, with a total of 30 people working for 1,357 hours.

art from around the world .. galleries

notes from Carol Jago presentation

start at 8:30

Power searching Demystifying popular search engines and getting quality research from everyday tools

great information from Google

FAQs for 3D Printers: Learn about 3D printers and get some invaluable advice for acquiring and running one in your library from Tyler Rousseau of Monroe Township Public Library. Tyler is November's TechEx Guest Contributor - you can find his other posts on Makerspaces here.

Booktrack Classroom is an exciting new technology that synchronizes audio with text to create an immersive reading experience. Stories and essays published with Booktrack include a customized, movie-style soundtrack that complements the story. Students can create Booktracks for their own writing and create a soundtrack from over 20,000 professional-quality audio files and share it with their classmates to read.

Make eBooks directly from your Google Drive. Create course materials, student created essays, etc. By invite only right now, but it's truly awesome.

LGBTI resources all listed on one page. From NJLA

Part educational story and part game, the Elements 4D app offers a new, fun way to experience augmented reality and learn about real-life chemistry. Paired with either paper or wood blocks that are inscribed with the symbols of 36 elements from the periodic table, this app will instantly transform a simple, inanimate object into dynamic, dimensional, 4D representations of each element (App is available in SELF-SERVICE and scoped to all Science iPads).

"We are a group of government documents librarians and K-12 school librarians  who meet up and share the best info for students (of all ages) that comes from government sources.  There are a wide variety of government generated documents covering all kinds of topics.  This site is designed to help classroom teachers and librarians navigate some of the government documents available through our members. "