How the Maker Movement Is Moving into Classrooms | Edutopia - 0 views
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A good post in which Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) discusses the ways education can utilise the interest in, and strengths of, the maker movement. "A new generation of inventors is surfing the tide of the Maker movement. These classrooms emphasize making, inventing, and creativity. Let's look at the terminology and trends that will help educators understand the Maker movement."
From Legos to Maker Labs: Fun and Learning After School | graphite Blog - 0 views
23 Tools For Students To Publish What They Learn - 0 views
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There are many tools available for students to publish their ideas to in the year 2015 and you no longer need a great knowledge of HTML and CSS. With the surge of online blogging and publication systems, students now have many opportunities to express their thoughts and ideas with the added chance of getting global feedback on those insights. The author of this post offers a list of some of the online publication tools they recommend that enable students to post their creative impressions on."
An Update to the Upgraded KWL for the 21st Century | Langwitches Blog - 0 views
Making Social Media Work for Your Library - 0 views
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"Social Media has been hailed as the silver bullet of grassroots marketing. Circumvent aging advertisement models and talk directly to your community? The only cost is your time? Fabulous! It can be like that, but it takes some very specific strategy to achieve that kind of success. At Transparent Language, we've built our Social Media following to nearly 3 million fans on Facebook alone. Our blogs receive over 200,000 visitors each month, and our YouTube videos have been viewed more than 2 million times. And we built most of it, not with a large team or budget, but with a single dedicated staff member. Truly grassroots. The lessons we've learned along the way can benefit our library clients, too. In this slide deck, a follow-up to Lorien Green's presentation at NELA 2014, we present our "secret sauce"."
Give eBooks a Physical Presence: Sacramento PL Shares Marketing Ideas | OverDrive Blogs - 0 views
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Many are askin "What's the best way promote the library's digital collection to patrons visiting the physical branch? This post shares some ideas used by staff members at Sacramento Public Library who came up with a clever way to connect its physical and digital collections. " The Electronic resources librarian Amy Calhoun explains how Sacramento PL has improved discovery of eBook titles among patrons visiting the library branches"
ISTE | Want to know what students think? This librarian asked them! - 0 views
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"One librarian created a survey designed to get at what young people want from school and from the adults who work in them. She blogged about the survey and shared it to her vast PLN on Twitter. And she received hundreds of responses, including some from students all over the world. The results of that survey was the impetus for her K12 Online preconference keynote."
8 Steps for Students to Remove Their Digital Footprints ~ Educational Technology and Mo... - 1 views
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"One of the essential parts of the digital citizenship I have been long talking about in this blog is about digital footprints. Students need to know that whatever they do or create online leaves behind a trail or digital breadcrumbs that others can trace. This "others" can be anyone from prospective employers, to college admission boards, anything you do online should be vetted by a critical lens and if "you don't want your parents to know about it then better not do it"." There are also a few things you can do to limit some damage.
A look back at a record breaking year in digital reading (Infographic) | OverDrive Blogs - 0 views
What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship | Edutopia - 0 views
Student Voice | Building a Culture of Collaboration - 0 views
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Some interesting ideas and the questions in the last part of the blog got me thinking. "How do you include student voice in your library program? Does your library space reflect student voice? Are your lessons designed to celebrate student voice? We need to relax our adult expectations and be flexible enough to allow our students to shine"
Global Digital Citizenship-in 15 Minutes! (Global Digital Citizen) - 1 views
Celebrate Science: Where Should We Shelve Informational Fiction? - 0 views
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Blog post discussing this literature "For the most part, the authors fully realized that these books should be classified as fiction, and they liked the term "informational fiction" because it acknowledged all the research they'd done and that the books were mostly faithful to the facts. But the Library of Congress labelled these books "juvenile literature" (the term they use for nonfiction). And in most cases, publishers and reviewers called the books narrative nonfiction."
Resources For Teaching Online Due To School Closures - The Edublogger - 1 views
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"This guide will give you insights into how educators around the world are approaching school closures. Thousands of teachers worldwide are currently sharing snippets of their experiences via social media or their blogs. We've compiled, curated, and built on some common themes and ideas to create this extensive guide."
Fact vs Fake: Resources to Help Librarians Navigate Digital Literacy - ALSC Blog - 1 views
MicSmithy's Tech Blog - 1 views
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"School safety is a top priority. Educators work to ensure that students are safe physically, socially, and emotionally. Helping students be safe online and using technology responsibly is crucial to their development and well being. We live in a digital world where we interact digitally everyday. To be successful in this digital world we have to know what is right and wrong, be able to capably use technology, and exhibit responsible behavior when using it. This is the concept of digital citizenship. To be a good digital citizen, you need to be digitally literate, and teaching students digital literacy is crucial for them to be good digital citizens"
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