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~ By Joyce Valenza ~ This is the best time in history to be a teacher-librarian. Major shifts in our information and communication landscapes present new

Videos and playlists by topic. Some great material here, especially for k-12.

"While LMS providers are making laudable efforts to incrementally make their tools more social, open, modular, and interoperable, they remain embedded in the classroom paradigm. The paradigm-not the technology-is the problem. We need to build, bootstrap, cobble together, implement, support, and leverage something that is much more open and loosely structured such that learners can connect with other learners (sometimes called teachers) and content as they engage in the authentic behaviors, activities and work of learning. Building a better, more feature-rich LMS won't close the 2-sigma gap. We need to utilize technology to better connect people, content, and learning communities to facilitate authentic, personal, individualized learning. What are we waiting for?"

Nice thought piece on how LMS's influence our teaching.

This is a very good resource. Let's share that in the class on Monday.

Today in History to your iphone

This is a great tool for teachers.

A great TED presentation I posted in my diffusion of innovation class, but the topic came up in our discussion on selling social media in class today. The presenter talks about getting people (teachers) to buy into your ideas.