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Awful Library Books - 13 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Dec 09
     
    Attention, Librarians who want to laugh or presenters looking for good material, the awful library book bloggers are perfect for you!
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4 online tools to engage teachers in collaboration and information literacy by @Elizabe... - 8 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 07 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 07 Apr 18
     
    "Over the last few years, I have spent time trying to work out ways to engage our teachers. We, at Schools' Library Service, have introduced an information literacy framework, created lesson ideas and spent hours talking to teachers about how school librarians can support teaching and learning. I even wrote a blog about 'How to make an information literacy framework work for you", but still some teachers are just too busy to listen."
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Smashwords - School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come - A book by ... - 8 views

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shared by Toni Olivieri-Barton on 04 May 12 - No Cached
  • Toni Olivieri-Barton on 04 May 12
     
    Listening to a Webinar about this book. Need to read.
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American Association of School Librarians - 7 views

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shared by Va Fiu on 10 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Va Fiu on 10 Mar 12
     
    The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
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Try Curiousity - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Dec 11
     
    Winner best librarian's blog
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Doing Digital Scholarship: Presentation at Digital Humanities 2008 « Digital ... - 0 views

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shared by Eloise Pasteur on 14 Aug 08 - Cached
  • My session, which explored the meaning and significance of “digital humanities,” also featured rich, engaging presentations by Edward Vanhoutte on the history of humanities computing and John Walsh on comparing alchemy and digital humanities.
  • I wondered: What is digital scholarship, anyway?  What does it take to produce digital scholarship? What kind of digital resources and tools are available to support it? To what extent do these resources and tools enable us to do research more productively and creatively? What new questions do these tools and resources enable us to ask? What’s challenging about producing digital scholarship? What happens when scholars share research openly through blogs, institutional repositories, & other means?
  • I decided to investigate these questions by remixing my 2002 dissertation as a work of digital scholarship.  Now I’ll acknowledge that my study is not exactly scientific—there is a rather subjective sample of one.  However, I figured, somewhat pragmatically, that the best way for me to understand what digital scholars face was to do the work myself. 
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  • The ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure’s report points to five manifestations of digital scholarship: collection building, tools to support collection building, tools to support analysis, using tools and collections to produce “new intellectual products,” and authoring tools. 
  • Tara McPherson, the editor of Vectors, offered her own “Typology of Digital Humanities”: •    The Computing Humanities: focused on building tools, infrastructure, standards and collections, e.g. The Blake Archive •    The Blogging Humanities: networked, peer-to-peer, e.g. crooked timber •    The Multimodal Humanities: “bring together databases, scholarly tools, networked writing, and peer-to-peer commentary while also leveraging the potential of the visual and aural media that so dominate contemporary life,” e.g. Vectors
  • My initial diagram of digital scholarship pictured single-headed arrows linking different approaches to digital scholarship; my revised diagram looks more like spaghetti, with arrows going all over the place.  Theories inform collection building; the process of blogging helps to shape an argument; how a scholar wants to communicate an idea influences what tools are selected and how they are used.
  • I looked at 5 categories: archival resources as well as primary and secondary books and journals.   I found that with the exception of archival materials, over 90% of the materials I cited in my bibliography are in a digital format.  However, only about 83% of primary resources and 37% of the secondary materials are available as full text.  If you want to do use text analysis tools on 19th century American novels or 20th century articles from major humanities journals, you’re in luck, but the other stuff is trickier because of copyright constraints.
  • I found that there were some scanning errors with Google Books, but not as many as I expected. I wished that Google Books provided full text rather than PDF files of its public domain content, as do Open Content Alliance and Making of America (and EAF, if you just download the HTML).  I had to convert Google’s PDF files to Adobe Tagged Text XML and got disappointing results.  The OCR quality for Open Content Alliance was better, but words were not joined across line breaks, reducing accuracy.  With multi-volume works, neither Open Content Alliance nor Google Books provided very good metadata.
  • To make it easier for researchers to discover relevant tools, I teamed up with 5 other librarians to launch the Digital Research Tools, or DiRT, wiki at the end of May.
  • Eloise Pasteur on 14 Aug 08
     
    Review of digital humanities scholarship tools
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Building your pLN has never been easier - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Nov 08 - Cached
  • This website is designed to show you how to use widgets / gadgets / plugins in your work to get access to information quickly and effectively.
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Nov 08
     
    Building a PLN has just gotten easier.
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Nov 08
     
    Organizations are starting to get things together to create widgets to help academicians, authors, and others to build a very powerful PLN (personal learning network) with their igoogle or netvibes. They seem to prefer Netvibes for a couple of reasons - and I maintain an account on both, although I startup on igoogle. There are Bespoke repository service widgets and repository information widgets. They even have a page to see what these widgets do (also in this post.) Every modern student (and professor and teacher) should understand how to build a PLN.
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Setting up your PLN - Horizon Project 2008 - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08
     
    Today on horizon, my students set up their PLN (personal learning network) in their RSS reader -- we use Netvibes although some switched to Google reader. Here is how I will assess this: I am assessing the students on this by having them print the page out and turn it in -- I'm also checking over their shoulders in lieu of printing -- but I may not get to everyone. -- In this blog post, I've REQUIRED 6 things on the page -- each is worth 10 points -- with 2 of those points being for a properly edited title in Netvibes (so that they may see what is what!) -- and then I have them find at least four additional sources of information for another 10 points each. Knowing how to set up a PLN for a topic of study is a VITAL skill for the 21st century researcher. I like Netvibes because it is very simple -- one page interface.
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08
     
    Best practice on setting up a PLN as done for the horizon project 2008.
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23 Things On a Stick: What Are the 23 Things On a Stick? - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 18 May 08
     
    A self-paced Library 2.0 learning course
  • anonymous on 18 May 08
     
    This is a clever way for librarians to "get up to speed" on web 2.0 tools. While designed for administrators it could be easily adapted for administrators or teachers. Tip of the hat to the Savvy Technologist blog for sharing this.
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CSRIU: Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use (Nancy Willard) - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 16 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 21 Jan 09
     
    The Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use provides research and outreach services to address issues of the safe and responsible use of the Internet. We provide guidance to parents, educators, librarians, policy-makers, and others regarding effective strategies to assist young people in gaining the knowledge, skills, motivation, and self-control to use the Internet and other information technologies in a safe and responsible manner.
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KidsClick! Online Games - 15 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 09 Mar 10
     
    Online Games for children filtered by (USA?) librarians
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Libraries and Social Networks - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 07 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 07 Apr 09
     
    A great slideshow with stats on internet use and digital literacy trends
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Internet Search Challenge: Adults Do Better - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Need proof that adults search and evaluate better than youth? These charts show how students in middle school and high school compare to teachers and librarians. The assessment is the pretest from a course we call "Investigative Searching 20/10."
  • To date, 449 middle schoolers, 414 high schoolers and 28 adults have taken the 10-item pretest that measures the ability to find critical information and evaluate its credibility. There are several differences that really stand out.
  • Are these the results you would expect? Do you think they are artificially low or about right? That's hard to say without seeing the pretest. Without disclosing specific items (in case you want to take the test), the 10 items focus on skills that have been described in previous posts, requiring the application of appropriate techniques to find the author of articles, the name of the publisher, the date of publication, other instances of the content on the Internet and references to web pages.
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Book Sale Manager - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Aug 09
     
    Librariies and non profits having book sales can use this site to list their sale for free. It is in beta testing now, but looks like it might have some cool features if you manage book sales. If you try this and review it, let me know, I'd love to know what you think.
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The class was what I needed to help me get focused for school! « Random Thoug... - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Learn how to locate authentic digital primary sources in multiple formats to enhance your curriculum. Develop age appropriate learning activities that promote higher level questioning and critical thinking skills while adding excitement to student learning through engaging activities. The course is especially helpful for teachers of AP classes, teachers addressing state and national standards requiring the use of primary sources, and teachers working with National History Day activities. Materials fromTPS Direct, the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources professional development program, will be incorporated in the class.
  • Dennis OConnor on 17 Aug 09
     
    Primary Sources, Where have you been? Why have I never used primary sources? I didn't use them because I didn't know where to find the resources.I never considered all of the possibilities.
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BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Young Minds Force-Fed With Indigestible Texts - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by David Hilton on 09 Jul 09 - Cached
  • As for the teaching of history, Ms. Ravitch argues, the sort of censorship being practiced today by textbook publishers can result in all manner of distortions and simplifications. For instance, to insist that depictions of women as nurses, elementary-school teachers, clerks, secretaries, tellers and librarians perpetuate demeaning stereotypes is to minimize ''the barriers that women faced,'' and to pretend ''that the gender equality of the late 20th and early 21st centuries was a customary condition in the past.''
  • David Hilton on 09 Jul 09
     
    What do people think of this woman's criticism of education today? Are we so blinkered by ideological prejudices that we're killing what makes education exciting and effective?
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Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author Network - 0 views

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shared by Mrs. Jepson on 22 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 22 Jul 09
     
    The mission of the Skype an Author Network is to provide K-12 teachers and librarians a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits.
  • Mrs. Jepson on 30 Aug 09
     
    skype with an author!
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