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Brenda Branson

Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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    Article covering sites with images.
Katy Vance

Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 4 views

  • If we want to connect with the latest generation of learners and teachers, we have to totally redesign the library from the vantage point of our users—our thinking has to do a 180-degree flip.
  • This learning commons is both a physical and a virtual space that’s staffed not just by teacher-librarians but also by other school specialists who, like us, are having trouble getting into the classroom and getting kids’ attention.
  • specialists such as literacy coaches, teacher technologists, teacher-librarians, art teachers, music teachers, and P.E. teachers
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  • experimental learning center,
  • In the physical space, we enter a room that’s totally flexible, where furnishings can be moved about to accommodate different functions and groupings.
  • the learning commons is both a giant, ongoing conversation and a warehouse of digital materials
  • —from ebooks to databases to student-generated content—all available 24/7 yea
  • Imagine a learning environment in which the multimedia world of information fed individual students’ needs, and where on-demand digital textbooks/multimedia/databases are available 24/7 and under the control of the user.
  • examples of one-way communication.
  • But in the new learning commons, homework assignments and library Web sites offer two-way communication.
  • Directive adults have been transformed into coaches; direct teaching has been transformed into collaborative inquiry.
  • On another day, parents may be invited to the learning commons to observe a jointly designed medieval art fair created by a classroom teacher, the art teacher, and the teacher-librarian.
  • The experimental learning center aims to improve teaching and learning by offering professional development sessions and resources that are tailor-made to each school’s greatest needs.
  • The teacher posts assignments on a blog that’s linked through an RSS feed to individual students in the class, each of whom can access the blog through an iGoogle page or another personal home page.
Seanean Shanahan

Google Docs presentation makes PowerPoint weep, beg for mercy (video) -- Engadget - 24 views

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    Great way to promote Google Docs.
anonymous

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Pyramid - 0 views

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    Developed by Samantha Penney.
Antonietta Neighbour

Welcome to Skype in the classroom | Skype Education - 8 views

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    Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn.
Antonietta Neighbour

Best Online Collaboration Tools 2011 Updated weekly - MindMeister Mind Map - 1 views

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    Robin Good - Communication Designer and New Media Explorer - has compiled this great mind map of the top collaboration tools for 2011 that he updates ... weekly! Check out the other mind maps he's created from the list on the right-hand side.
Laura Gardner

Virtual Field Trips | SimpleK12 - 0 views

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    organized by topic
Jennifer Garcia

14 Ways K-12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza - 15 views

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    "14 Ways K-12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza"
Donna Baumbach

Teaching and technology ~ presentations and resources for educators - 0 views

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    pdf documents for technology tools: pdocasting, blogging, vodcastng and more. EXCELLENT!!!
Donna Baumbach

Library Mashups : Links - 0 views

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    links for book Library Mashups by chapter. See also delicious.com/librarymashups n Library Mashups, Nicole C. Engard and 25 contributors from all over the world walk readers through definitions, summaries, and practical uses of mashups in libraries. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming skills to make simple website updates, to modifying the library OPAC, to using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps, and Delicious to share and combine digital content.
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