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Maggie Verster

100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future - 0 views

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    As a modern day library student, you're probably excited about discovering and experimenting with the new tools and systems that have changed the way we find, receive and catalog information. But with all of the new technology out there, it can be hard to keep track of everything beyond your own niche field of study. This collection of library and information technology blogs have changed that, and now you'll be able to learn about all of the trends, developments, tools and resources available to librarians in every niche.
Maggie Verster

Digital researchtools wiki - 0 views

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    This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for
Maggie Verster

100 Amazing Web Tools for Hobbyist Scholars - 0 views

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    "If you love to do research but don't have the degree or credentials to be truly called a scholar, then you probably fall into the category of a hobbyist scholar. This doesn't mean that you can't take advantage of the numerous resources for scholars online. They can help you with anything you might be interested in finding out more about, from science to your family genealogy"
Carolynn Bruton

Kathy Schrock's - Google Blooms Taxonomy - 1 views

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    A clickable map for Google Tools supporting Bloom's (revised) taxonomy
Maggie Verster

Top 5 Free eBook Tools & Tidbits For Your Reading Pleasure - 0 views

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    Every day more people join the world of eBook lovers, having suddenly decided to take the plunge and buy a new Kindle or some other eBook reader. Along with your new purchase (or your decision to buy) comes the realization that you now need to know a lot more about how you're going to find great free eBooks to read. At MakeUseOf, we've written plenty of articles on how to find free eBooks, but it was about time we made a primer for those of you who haven't been researching very long. There are a number of different ways to get great free content on to your eBook reader, to organise your eBooks and to read eBooks without a dedicated eBook gadget. Here's everything you need to know.
Maggie Verster

Educreations - Teach what you know. Learn what you don't. - 0 views

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    Educreations is a global community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. We're on a mission to democratize learning by extending the reach of great teaching.
Maggie Verster

Free Technology for Teachers: Literature Map - Find Authors You Might Like - 0 views

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    Finding books that kids will like can be a difficult task. Literature Map is a tool that might make that process easier. Literature Map provides a web of authors you might like based on authors that you already enjoy reading. To use Literature Map just type an author's name into the search box and webbed list of authors will be displayed. The authors' names closest to the author whose name you entered are the authors whose work you're most likely to enjoy.
Maggie Verster

The Ultimate Teacher's Guide To Social Media - 0 views

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    "Teachers are quickly catching on and even surpassing students when it comes to embracing social media. What if you still have questions about the plethora of communication channels that exist for teachers to reach their students? Thankfully we are proud to share 'Tools For The 21st Century Teacher' by Michael Zimmer, a Technology Integration Specialist in Western Kentucky."
Maggie Verster

Twitter guidebook - 0 views

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    Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where's the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop? To answer all these questions and more, we've assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter. Happy Tweeting!"
Maggie Verster

iTALC-(intelligent Teaching and learning with computers)- network cotrol (opensource) - 0 views

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    "iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!"
Maggie Verster

Zotero - digital library tool - 0 views

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    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself.
Maggie Verster

Free online course on Learning & Knowledge Analytics starting 10th Jan - 1 views

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    LAK11 - is an open course that will be offered from January 10 - February 20, 2011. LAK11 serves as an introduction to the growing field of analytics in teaching, learning, training, development, and organizational knowledge. LAK11 will address the following topics: Week 1 (Jan 10-16): Introduction to Learning and Knowledge Analytics Week 2 (Jan 17-23): Rise of "Big Data" and Data Scientists Week 3 (Jan 24-30): Semantic Web, Linked Data, & Intelligent Curriculum Week 4 (Jan 31-Feb 6): Visualization: Tools for, and examples of, Analytics Week 5 (Feb 7-13): Organizational implementation Week 6 (Feb 14-20): What's next for Learning & Knowledge Analytics?
Maggie Verster

Eight Tech Trends for Librarians (and Teachers too!) - 4 views

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    The school library-and the job of the librarian-have both morphed into something that most adults these days would hardly recognize. Helping kids find books to read is only part of the job, say those on the profession's leading edge. Today, a major mission of the librarian, aka media specialist, is to teach students digital literacy by showing them how to use the Internet to efficiently find, organize, and share information with peers. Here are some of the tools librarians are using to make their jobs easier and more relevant to students as they address this expansion of their role.
Maggie Verster

30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use - 0 views

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    As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information overload" is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the "stuff" out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche.  Let's face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes.
Maggie Verster

South african authors - Google Squared - 0 views

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    Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. For instance: * Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). * Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. * See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. * Save and share Squares with others.
Maggie Verster

Great digital resource: The National Science Digital Library - 0 views

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    The NSDL was created by the National Science Foundation in 2000 to provide organized access to high quality online resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.
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