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For anyone involved (or not) in social media, this is a great campaign for reading http://ow.ly/8vI70

Read Cube readcube.com/#features find references to scholarly articles in one place

The Ten Tools were designed to provide teachers with a 'route' into the exploration of film and moving image in the classroom. They were assembled especially with inexperienced or beginner teachers in mind, and there is a deliberate attempt to avoid technical jargon wherever possible. They are not prescriptive, but rather should be used selectively and in combinations to suit the teacher and the learners. Each of the Ten Tools is accompanied by a list of potential discussion questions and typical activities. With practice, the teacher should come to know which of them will work best with any particular film text.

An introductory guide to iPads for Teachers Posted on Apr 3, 2012 in iPads and Tablets, Useful

Australian curriculum aligned and a bit more engaging than Studyladder. Shared by Suzanne Jessen.

@karenfalcs: 21st Century Tools Through the Lens of Bloom's Taxonomy http://t.co/9wIH1vE7 via @skrabut #edtech #edchat #teaching #rcjs #ibpyp #gtchat

Model for teachers to using with ACARA to plan effectively with Big 6 (Ross Todd).

As a Visual Bookmarking tool - As an addicted Delicious user, I'm pretty amazed by the easiness of moving from one platform to another after so many years of becoming accustomed to the former one. But it is not anything like Delicious. The visual bookmarking concept is something else entirely for me. For daily links from tech blogs that I see and like, I mostly use the +1 button (to save everything as a list in my Google+ profile), but anything that looks good, and I know I will remember based on a visual memory and category, goes inside one of the albums I've created in Pinterest. And, I love that it can be DIY content that you created (such as food or craft photos that you can upload) along with content you find around the web.

Achieving Information Literacy Standards for School Library Programs in Canada Edited by Marlene Asselin, PhD Jennifer L. Branch, PhD and Dianne Oberg, PhD Canadian Association for School Libraries

dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book.

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Greg Farley. Greg is the Director of Technology at Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District and an Adjunct Professor and course developer at the Graduate Schools of Education at Monmouth University and Drew University. Greg also conducts workshops at K-12 schools and universities and mentors doctoral students and administrators in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Check out his blog Embrace, Adapt, Enhance. I visited Eric's High School on February 24th to observe Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and his implementation of a contemporary learning environment. I was impressed. I was most impressed at Eric's reflection that he was once part of the problem, banning devices from his school rather then embracing the use of the technology. That has changed and Eric trusts his students to interact responsibly with media and communication tools. These expectations are being met by staff and students.

tables that draw together the inquiry skills sequence (F-10) in science, history and the draft geography curriculum. by Mandy Lupton Lecturer in Teacher-Librarianship School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove QLD 4059, Australia

Australia's National Year of Reading 2012 starts here, with the opportunity for you to vote for the book that you think should represent your state or territory as one of the eight on our national recommended reading list for 2012. You can help decide the eight books that are the National Year of Reading 2012 collection.

Purpose of this topic To provide guidance to ensure that schools respond reasonably and respectfully to objections about the use of specific curriculum resources.

Dear Savvy Searcher, My students keep wanting to enter their entire research question into the search bar. I keep trying to tell them that's a bad idea. How do you teach students to identify the right words to use in a search? Frustrated Educator

"Citing resources is an important skill for the 21st century students and for any other learner or researcher. I have already included it in my ebook " The 21St Century Skills Teachers and Students Need to Have ". It is a fact universally acknowledged that citing resources nowadays is way harder than it used to be when technology was not a huge issue."

"After weeks of buildup, the Department of Justice sued Apple and five book publishers today and accused them of conspiring to set e-book prices. This is a big story and publishers, consumers and retailers may see the ramifications of today's lawsuit for months or even years to come. Here's what you need to know now."

101 Digital Tools for the 21st Century Classroom Just what we need, another 101 list. This is the part where I attempt to convince you that this one is different. Friend and colleague Kyle Wood (@jkylewood) and I wanted to make a different kind of list, a list not just of tools people mentioned on twitter or we saw on wikis, but a list of solid educational tools that we have personally tested in an actual educational setting! The list was created as a component for a conference we are presenting at this summer. Below is the Google Presentation that we planned to use with the list. You are welcome to use it as you see fit. If you reuse/modify the list or presentation, please give attribution.