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"Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers"

This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation

"When over 300 third through seventh grade students, from Alabama, Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Maine work collaboratively to create an online journal, amazing things happen."

Why libraries and IT will always need to be good partners

Instructions for captioning a Youtube video

Based on the book, Understanding by Design (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) this article summarizes the process of designing courses as "backward process." The process has 3 basic steps - 1) Identify desired results, 2)Determine Acceptable Evidence, and 3) Plan Learning Experiences

Could be another option for students.  Wish we had time to pilot this in one class.  This is the kind of thing we should be flexible enough to explore at BU.

Article describes a classroom broken down into stations, each one designed to teach specific skills in different ways. A kid who needs to learn how to calculate the area of a circle could be taught in a group with a teacher, with a virtual tutor, or with a computer program.

One stop shop for Google + info

 iJourney allows you to create a time-centered digital story like this great biography of Andy Warhol posted on the site.

Screencast-O-Matic is a great site for creating screencasts for all platforms. All a user has to do is click start recording and then adjust the size of their recording window. The finished product can be downloaded, uploaded to YouTube or shared on SOM.

"Students moving into a newly renovated dormitory at the University of Kentucky signed up for a hyperwired college experience: Each one was given an iPad and required to take a series of tech-themed courses."

Good tools for keeping track of things

Course Smart is a great site for students looking to find a textbook in eBook format. This site is geared toward higher ed students and they can browse by category and top content.

Message your class: A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free.

A lot of very useful PowerPoint Games and resources for your college courses.

I hope not!

I hope not!

Nothing earth shattering but a good article about points of collaboration between Library and Technology depts.