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Chiki Smith

Happier and At Peace with Myself - 1 views

I let go of my ex-boyfriend because he is one of those cheating partners who is not contented to have just one girlfriend. He never stopped with his cheating frenzy until I was the one who had enou...

relationships advice

started by Chiki Smith on 02 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Judy O'Connell

Blogging with Students - 16 views

livebinders.com/...play_or_edit

livebinders blogging

shared by Judy O'Connell on 22 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Judy O'Connell on 22 Jun 11
     
    As you might well know I am really enthusiastic about blogging with students. I have shared my adventures through several opportunities and I'm determined to keep spreading the word in order to bring other educators on board. Therefore, I have created a LiveBinder with useful tools, examples and resources. I thought this would be a good idea to encourage other teachers to get their kids blogging
Katy Vance

Bibliotech: 6 concerns about trends in digital collection development - 1 views

mluhtala.blogspot.com/...-about-digital-collection.html

collection development ebooks trends luhtala

shared by Katy Vance on 19 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Librarians feel compelled to acquire eContent from only one distributor because it is too confusing – for them, for students, for teachers, for business managers - to purchase eContent from a variety of distributors, thus materials selection is driven by who they buy from, not what a
  • igns with the curriculum. This is a classic example of the tail wagging the dog.
  • It is our job to develop our collections, aligning them with our school/district’s curriculum – not to buy ready-made packages from vendors.  It is our job to create, instructional materials, and to determine how to best assess our students’ learning.  This requires granular knowledge of our patron base, our curricula, and our collections. You can't fake this. It takes a long time to build that knowledge base. If we relinquish these responsibilities to commercial interests, we literally sell out our own profession.
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  • eContent requires meticulous, patron-aware (rather than traditional) cataloging.  It is virtually (no pun intended) impossible to “display” eContent. There is no way to physically put it in the hands of students, if students are using their own technology. This is not happening for a few reasons: Since vendors and library management systems have made it possible to import MARC records, librarians, as a whole, have been falling out of the cataloging practice. Cataloging is time consuming, and tedious work. Cataloging, as we learned it, doesn’t work for our students. We have to reinvent it. For example, at New Canaan High School, we add the project name as a subject heading to each title in the eCollection that supports it. 
  • In BYOD programs, library programs should be undergoing significant instructional transformations that evolve as students’ facility with mobile technology increases. The ratio of print to digital content should be contingent upon students’ ability to access eContent. Developing a system to calculate this would help school librarians make sound decisions about format choices."
amby kdp

Fruits Coloring Book (Coloring Book For Children) - 0 views

www.amazon.com/...ref=sr_1_1

children book books amazon kids for

shared by amby kdp on 29 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • amby kdp on 29 Feb 16
     
    Fruits Coloring Book (Coloring Book For Children) [Hilda Flowers] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. First of all I would like to thank you for purchasing this book. The book “Fruits Coloring Book (Coloring Book For Children)” is coloring book for kids. I have 2 kids both are of age group 0-7 years. I love to do creative things and mostly I love drawing. So
Samantha Coleman

Perfect Site to Look for Perfect Job - 1 views

started by Samantha Coleman on 21 Jan 13 no follow-up yet
Carla Shinn

Libraries as Cultivators of Creativity: There's an App for That! - 24 views

www.librarygirl.net/...cultivators-of-creativity.html

cool tools

shared by Carla Shinn on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 29 Apr 13
     
    The Adventures of Library Girl: I am not an artist. But when I created this blog, I knew I wanted an avatar that would come to be synonymous with "Library Girl." I figured, if I was going to don a virtual super hero persona, I would, at minimum, need a cartoon character version of my self who, if not able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, would at least sport a cape.
Roger Morris

The Easiest Way To Earn From Your Books - 1 views

Being a book author, I already know that I could not easily get rich with this career because it takes time to have my books sold. Good thing that I have learned about Kindle Book Publishing and I ...

started by Roger Morris on 15 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Sue Hayter

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Wa... - 13 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...3-b899-20667de76985_story.html

Reading reading online literacy information literacy

shared by Sue Hayter on 09 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 09 Apr 14
     
    "I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing," said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain."
  • Sue Hayter on 11 Apr 14
     
    I wonder if anyone else has noticed this phenomenon in their own reading ... I know I have, sadly.
beth gourley

The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

www.nybooks.com/21514

library

shared by beth gourley on 25 May 08 - Cached
  • four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
  • around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
  • the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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  • second technological shift when the codex replaced the scroll sometime soon after the beginning of the Christian era. By the third century AD, the codex—that is, books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll
  • eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
  • other reader's aids
  • codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
  • technology of printing did not change for nearly four centuries, but the reading public grew larger and larger, thanks to improvements in literacy, education, and access to the printed word.
  • fourth great change, electronic communication
  • movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
  • writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
  • codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
  • would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
  • Internet to search engines, nineteen years
  • search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
  • continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
  • continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
  • every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
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      beth gourley on 25 May 08
       
      premise
  • pace of change seems breathtaking:
  • news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
  • News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
  • aving learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary sources for knowing what really happened
  • newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
  • We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
  • as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
  • Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts. By studying them skeptically on our computer screens, we can learn how to read our daily newspaper more effectively—and even how to appreciate old books.
  • Unbelievers used to dismiss Henry Clay Folger's determination to accumulate copies of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare as the mania of a crank.
  • When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
  • eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
  • only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
  • extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
  • Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
  • They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
  • question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
  • o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
  • We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
  • Google proposal seemed to offer a way to make all book learning available to all people, or at least those privileged enough to have access to the World Wide Web
  • will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
  • Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
  • scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
  • notably American Memory sponsored by the Library of Congress[1] and the Valley of the Shadow created at the University of Virginia[2] —have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of databases on this scale
  • will make research libraries obsolete
  • 2. Although Google pursued an intelligent strategy by signing up five great libraries, their combined holdings will not come close to exhausting the stock of books in the United States.
  • 1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
  • If Google missed this book, and other books like it, the researcher who relied on Google would never be able to locate certain works of great importance.
  • On the contrary, Google will make them more important than ever. To support this view, I would like to organize my argument around eight points.
  • For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
  • 3. Although it is to be hoped that the publishers, authors, and Google will settle their dispute, it is difficult to see how copyright will cease to pose a problem.
  • But nothing suggests that it will take account of the standards prescribed by bibliographers, such as the first edition to appear in print or the edition that corresponds most closely to the expressed intention of the author.
  • Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
  • it has not yet ventured into special collections, where the rarest works are to be found. And of course the totality of world literature—all the books in all the languages of the world—lies far beyond Google's capacity to digitize
  • Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
  • 5. Google will make mistakes.
  • Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
  • 6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
  • all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
  • 7. Google plans to digitize many versions of each book, taking whatever it gets as the copies appear, assembly-line fashion, from the shelves; but will it make all of them available?
  • 4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
  • No single copy of an eighteenth-century best-seller will do justice to the endless variety of editions. Serious scholars will have to study and compare many editions, in the original versions, not in the digitized reproductions that Google will sort out according to criteria that probably will have nothing to do with bibliographical scholarship.
  • 8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
  • ts physical aspects provide clues about its existence as an element in a social and economic system; and if it contains margin notes, it can reveal a great deal about its place in the intellectual life of its readers.
  • Rare book rooms are a vital part of research libraries, the part that is most inaccessible to Google. But libraries also provide places for ordinary readers to immerse themselves in books,
  • Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
  • I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
  • he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
  • beth gourley on 25 May 08
     
    The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
Sora Lee

Learning SEO Techniques through Online Courses - 2 views

Because of the recent economic downturn, I was planning of setting up a business that is unique from the common business ventures people go into. One time, I was searching through the Internet and ...

online course

started by Sora Lee on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Martha Hickson

Librarydoor: Information Trumps Technology in the Common Core - 17 views

librarydoor.blogspot.com/...umps-technology-in-common.html

advocacy common_core information_literacy

shared by Martha Hickson on 05 May 13 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 05 May 13
     
    next time you ponder what to do with technology, consider the following essential questions: What information can my students communicate with technology?  What information can I embed into this project?   Can my students access information to synthesize, critically?  Are my students information literate as well as tech-savvy?  Am I asking my students to JUST find information? Or, have I asked them to do anything with that information?  Synthesize?  Create? Debate? Transform that information into a position, problem solve,  etc,?  
Anne Weaver

Making Twitter Work For You – Lists – Linking Learning - 8 views

www.linkinglearning.com.au/ing-twitter-work-for-you-lists

twitter

shared by Anne Weaver on 03 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Anne Weaver on 03 Jul 16
     
    After my post introducing Twitter to newbies, I thought I’d follow up with a second post for those who have dipped their toes in, but wanted to know a little more about how to get the best ou…
  • Anne Weaver on 03 Jul 16
     
    After my post introducing Twitter to newbies, I thought I’d follow up with a second post for those who have dipped their toes in, but wanted to know a little more about how to get the best ou…
Miguel Campion

Essential Betting Tips - 1 views

I have been joining an elite horse race for a month now and I have not experienced winning even once. I am very frustrated. Good thing I have come across Champion Picks. This company is really grea...

books betting tips horse racing

started by Miguel Campion on 16 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
Fran Bullington

Veronica Roth: "But I Read Divergent a YEAR Ago!": Your Guide to Remembering Stuff Befo... - 15 views

veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/...d-divergent-year-ago-your.html

Divergent Veronica_Roth ya_lit

shared by Fran Bullington on 06 May 12 - No Cached
  • Fran Bullington on 06 May 12
     
    As with any "artistic decision," there will be consequences, which is that not everyone has a superhuman memory and/or the time to reread Divergent before reading Insurgent. Early readers of Insurgent have understandably had some trouble recalling all the necessary information to really be situated in the world of Insurgent. In order to help with this horrible thing I have done to you, I wrote this GIANT post to remind you of all the characters in Divergent, how you know them, and what happened at the end of Divergent.
Anthony Beal

Want your learners to be more independent? - Information Literacy Doing Overt... - 41 views

liberace.wordpress.com/...mation-literacy-doing-overtime

information literacy wales blog

shared by Anthony Beal on 23 May 12 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 23 May 12
     
    At the JISC RSC North West 'Want your learners to be more independent?' event I felt I had my eyes well and truly opened to the benefits of, and dare I say it, the necessity of embedding information literacy skills into learning provision - whatever form that provision that may take.
jenibo

A Cool Flowchart to Teach Students How to Cite and Credit Images ~ Educational Technolo... - 77 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...art-to-teach-students-how.html

citation research 2.0 fair use

shared by jenibo on 26 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • jenibo on 26 Feb 14
     
    "Our job as teachers is to draw our students attention to the fact that copy-paste culture is destructive and that appropriate citations and crediting back the sources, if ever we are allowed to, are two important things we always need to invoke as we are dealing with both digital and non digital content.  I have an entire section in this blog packed full of resources, tools and tips on how to teach your students about copyright, check it out here to learn more. Today, I am sharing with you this wonderful flowchart I come across in digital inspiration. You can use it with you students to teach them about the kinds of images to cite and how to do so."
kathleen johnson

Ideal Library - 14 views

I am working on something similar, a potential article for SLJ. I can send a draft in about a week if you are interested.

started by Jean Bruce on 23 Nov 10 3 follow-ups, last by kathleen johnson on 25 Nov 10
Donna Baumbach

Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature: 195 (and counting) Adolescent Literature Book... - 0 views

pajka.blogspot.com/...ing-adolescent-literature.html

hearing_impaired ya_lit books reading

shared by Donna Baumbach on 17 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 17 Dec 09
     
    I hope this Blog assists teachers in recommending books with characters with whom our students can relate. I also hope this Blog assists in recommending books with multiple realities of the D/deaf human experience. While my primary focus is adolescent and Young Adult chapter books, I will add information about children's literature and adult 'cross-over' texts from time to time. Enjoy, Sharon Pajka-West, Ph.D.
Laura Gardner

The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements - 0 views

www.uky.edu/...index.html

chemistry science comics elements

shared by Laura Gardner on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Laura Gardner on 24 Sep 09
     
    This site contains comic book images linked to the chemical elements via the periodic table.
Samantha Coleman

Apply Teaching Jobs Abroad Online - 0 views

Thanks to Schools And Teachers, I was able to find a suitable teaching job abroad. The online job board offered me the opportunity to access various international teaching jobs and careers that are...

started by Samantha Coleman on 24 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
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