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Great post by Debbie Abilock on evaluating sources and why it is so important

Year in graphics from the Washington Post

Sites uses popular music to teach history. School librarian Joyce Valenza writes: "An article in the December 30 Washington Post turned me on to an amazing creative effort developed by a couple of teachers in Hawaii. History for Music Lovers on YouTube is song parody and remix at its most useful. The portal was launched by clever and talented Amy Burvall, of the Le Jardin Academy in Kailua, and Herb Mahelona, who used to work with her, at St. Andrew's Priory in Honolulu. I can see using these as models for creative student research projects. The clever remixing here also seems a cool way of examining transformativeness (repurposing and adding value) as it relates to fair use."... School Library Journal: NeverEndingSearch, Dec. 31; Washington Post, Dec. 30; History for Music Lovers

Watch these and imagine the possibilities in your class!

Excellent post on what should be taught as part of info literacy

lifelong skills that should be taught in the library. It isn't just about research. This post isn't just meant to be read by librarians. Really good info for all subject areas.

Excellent post on research process.

Excellent post on improving the research process.

Great post on using google advanced search. Easy to follow ideas

Great post on teaching advanced search and why it is important to teach these techniques.

Very good post on the importance of the school libary.

Hopefully preaching to the choir here!

This is a very informative post about students and tech

very interesting post with much to think about

Copyright issues and iTunes. Very detailed post on various scenarios pointing out what is probably ok and what isn't

Excellent post from Richard Byrne on plagiarism. Links to tools to help fight plagiarism.

links to many helpful sites

"All week I've started each day with a list of eleven good resources to try in different content areas. On Monday I shared mathematics resources. On Tuesday I shared science resources. On Wednesday I shared language arts resources. And today I bring you eleven good social studies resources to try in 2011. "

very interesting post

Especially like the reference to design and referencing the Nondesigners Design book.

An Open Educational Resources site OER; in beta now. "Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru's content experts, so you don't have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself. Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with. Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study."

Not sure what resources are here for social studies but still looks like a very interesting site. Think you should check it out for resources and to share with students.

Post about snapguide which "...is a website, but it's also an app, and the app makes it really easy to take pictures or video of steps in a process and integrate them into a guide."

This could be a really useful site to use with classes.

post about teaching students about media literacy.

Some good ideas here.

post using ipad to gather information.

some good and useful info here.

Interesting post on how to evaluate educational apps

"A research project focusing on reading behavior going on at Johannes Gutenberg University (go figure) asks the question of whether or not we actually read in a completely different way using our ereaders, and if the effects are undesirable. Has technology developed its own significant physical procession of human motor movements for consuming info and entertainment on today's digital media? Sure it has, and according to this study at least, it's harmless-just different. posted by Ian Jukes Nov 10, 2011"

post links to Library of Congress political cartoon collection and also to cartoons for the classroom a service of the Assoc. of American Editorial Cartoonists. The latter site provides lesson plan ideas.

Great post from finding Dulcinea on political cartoons with links to sites with lots of examples