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This is what it looks like and sounds like!!! Scenes from the Unquiet Library: Four Classes Researching, Learning, and Collaborating I'm always amazed by how beautifully classes co-exist in our learning space when we max out with four classes. I thought it would be fun this morning to capture a quick snapshot of what learning looks like at The Unquiet Library-moments like this are the happiest for me here in the library and validate the vision of a learning-centered library. Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Facebook Twitter Email Print « Older Posts Email Subscription Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 478 other followers RSS feeds RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Search Recent Posts Video: The Librarian as a Catalyst and Learning Specialist in K12 The Possibilities and Challenges of a Participatory Learning Environment: Students and Teachers Speak Scenes from the Unquiet Library: Four Classes Researching, Learning, and Collaborating Lisa Schwartz - DML Summer Institute 2011 Framing Transliterate Learning Through Inquiry and Participatory Culture Recent Comments Buffy Hamilton on Li… on Video: The Librarian as a Cata… Another Provocation… on The Possibilities and Challeng… Zoe Midler (@zmidler… on Scenes from the Unquiet Librar… Archives Categories Blog Stats 309,618 hits 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker Tweets Is it possible to run a premade report in Destiny to calculate the # of titles added in a particular time period? #tlchat 38 minutes ago School librarians: anyone else receive a survey endorsed by AASL from U.S. Census Bureau about schools and st… (cont) http://t.co/D005LNrs 1 hour ago feeling a little weepy/emotional reflecting on what a gift it was to talk to my former elem. school teachers for first time in 30 years f2f. 15 hours ago Tags Advocacy books collaboration coo

Network with other library media specialist and chat in the forums about issues or questions that are relevant to your library program.

Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Participative Technologies in the classroom. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues. We have over 66,000 members from 188 countries!

three day conference that brought together 99 of the nation's top authors and experts in education for presentations, panels, and networking.

Teaching and Learning with The New York Times

Storify is a social storytelling platform that lets you tell stories by bringing together media from social networks like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and more. This will be an amazing resource for integrating texts into classrooms! It allows students to curate, comment, & add additional media easily!!

"QR Wild® scavenger hunt games are perfect for trade shows, conferences and educators! Your audience scans trackable QR Codes placed at physical locations that you'd like them to visit. As the game pieces are scanned the player earns points and unlocks "badges" while spreading the word by sharing progress on their social networks. You can even display a scoreboard online or at an event!"

Bulb is a new service through which you can create, share, and browse through collections of educational materials. On Bulb you can create your own collections of text, images, and videos. You could create collections of materials about an academic topic or about a skill that you want to help others learn. As you create your collections on Bulb you can write text, upload or link to pictures, and upload or link to YouTube videos. All collections can be shared via email and through popular social networks like Twitter and Google+.

Widbook is a platform designed to help people collaboratively create multimedia books. The service is part multimedia book authoring tool and part social network. Mashable called it "the YouTube of books." On Widbook you can create a digital book that contains text, images, and videos. Widbook is collaborative because you can invite others to make contributions to your books. To use Widbook you have to create a profile on the service. The books that you create become a part of your profile. If you allow it, other Widbook users can add content and or comments to your books. Likewise, you can search for others' books and make contributions to their books.

UtellStory is a service for creating and sharing audio slideshows. To create and share your story through UtellStory you can upload pictures, add text captions, add audio narration to each slide, and upload a soundtrack to support your entire story. Completed projects can be embedded into your blog, emailed to your friends, or shared through your favorite social networking sites. Watch UTellStory's introduction here. Creating my first UTellStory project, available here, took me about ten minutes after registering on the site. To create my story I uploaded pictures that I had saved on my computer, but I could have also pulled images from Flickr. Then I added the narration to each slide. In the free version of UTellStory you have thirty seconds per slide and up to two minutes of total audio. I rearranged my slides after recording by simply dragging them into the sequence in which I wanted them to appear.

The Evernote family of products help you remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use.

LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the web.

Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines. Leverage Curation to increase your visibility. Give persistence to your social media presence.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again! This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website.

ePals is the leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally.

create an account, take a learning preference adventure, customize your profile, explore learning pathways, create a playlist of tutorials, create a group, and invite your peers and colleagues. This could be used with students. Students could become the teachers! Curate content, decide how to teach it, create the tutorials and share. This would work well with foreign language, science, and social studies! Just about anything would work!

. Down For Everyone Or Just Me? will tell you if a site that you're trying to visit is down or not. To use the site just enter the name of a site into the search tool on Down For Everyone Or Just Me? and you will quickly get a yes or no answer. Applications for Education The next time you try a site in your classroom and the kids say to you, "it's not working" put the site's address into Down For Everyone Or Just Me? to see if the problem lies with the site or with your school's filters.