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Donna Baumbach

Author William Poundstone Dissects the Marketing Tricks Built Into Balthazar's Menu -- ... - 0 views

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webdesign design reading

shared by Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09
     
    via Stephen's Lighthouse - good principles for webpage design, too! Get your "customers'" attention!
Robin Cicchetti

SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 20 views

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technology gamification Web 3.

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail. A good game, by contrast, never makes you feel like you've failed: you just progress more slowly. Instead of giving bad students an F, why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score?
    • Robin Cicchetti
      Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11
       
      How can this idea be applied to information skills and school libraries?
  • a consultant on cyber-crimefighting speaks with undisguised joy about how much information the police could glean from Facebook, in order to infiltrate communities where criminals might lurk. Asked about privacy concerns, she replies: "Yeah – we'll have to keep an eye on that."
  • Until recently, the debate over "digital distraction" has been one of vested interests: authors nostalgic for the days of quiet book-reading have bemoaned it, while technology zealots have dismissed it. But the fusion of the virtual world with the real one exposes both sides of this argument as insufficient, and suggests a simpler answer: the internet is distracting if it stops you from doing what you really want to be doing; if it doesn't, it isn't.
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  • "we were not meant to operate as computers do," Schwartz says. "We are meant to pulse."
  • "the dictator's dilemma".
  • Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11
     
    Fascinating article about the next generation of the ubiquitous web and the implications. Good definition of "gamification." This is excellent background information for strategic planning and discussing the potential implications on education.
  • Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11
     
    Fascinating article about the next generation of the ubiquitous web and the implications. Good definition of "gamification." This is excellent background information for strategic planning and discussing the potential implications on education.
Anne Weaver

SlimeKids - School Library Media Kids - 30 views

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shared by Anne Weaver on 13 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Deven Black on 13 Mar 11
     
    School Library Media Kids -- Packed with book trailers and language arts-related games, School library media Kids is designed to provide an interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! Students can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines.
Anne Weaver

Web Tools: "5 Websites That Alert Book Lovers About New Book Releases" | TeleRead: News... - 0 views

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shared by Anne Weaver on 01 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Anne Weaver on 01 Aug 11
     
    The five alert services (all free) discussed are: 1. Track New Book 2. Book Buzzes 3. Any New Books 4. Author Alerts 5. Wowbrary A service many of you are probably familiar with. Wowbrary alerts users to new books at numerous public libraries around the U.S.
Anthony Beal

Which social network should I use as a librarian? - 21 views

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libraries education socialnetworking informationliteracy facebook twitter

shared by Anthony Beal on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 24 Aug 11
     
    Great article! I just shared on the Idaho Library List-serve!
  • Anthony Beal on 24 Aug 11
     
    Thanks very much, you can follow the author on Twitter @Philbradley
Dennis OConnor

The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative | Spotlight on Digital Media and Lea... - 19 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • “I think the definition of writing is shifting,” Boardman said. “I don’t think writing happens with just words anymore.”
  • In his classes, Boardman teaches students how to express their ideas and how to tell stories —and he encourages them to use video, music, recorded voices and whatever other media will best allow them to communicate effectively. He is part of a vanguard of educators, technologists, intellectuals and writers who are reimagining the very meaning of writing and reading.
  • The keys to understanding this new perspective on writing and reading lie in notions of collaboration and being social. More specifically, it’s believing that collaboration and increased socialization around activities like reading and writing is a good idea.
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  • “We find when writing moves online, the connections between ideas and people are much more apparent than they are in the context of a printed book,”
  • transmedia work
  • The MIT Media Lab tagged collaboration as one of the key literacies of the 21st century, and it’s now so much a part of the digital learning conversation as to be nearly rote. In his new book, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” Stephen Johnson argues that ideas get better the more they’re exposed to outside influences.
  • Laura Flemming is an elementary school library media specialist in River Edge, N.J. About three years ago, she came across a hybrid book—half digital, half traditional—called “Skeleton Creek” by Patrick Carmen. “The 6th graders were running down to library class, banging down the door to get in, which you don’t often see,” Flemming said.
  • It is not only the act of writing that is changing. It’s reading, too. Stein points to a 10-year-old he met in London recently. The boy reads for a bit, goes to Google when he wants to learn more about a particular topic, chats online with his friend who are reading the same book, and then goes back to reading.
  • “We tell our kids we want them to know what it’s like to walk in the shoes of the main character,” Flemming said. “I’ve had more than one child tell me that before they read ‘Inanimate Alice,’ they didn’t know what that felt like.”
  • Stein says it’s better to take advantage of new technologies to push the culture in the direction you want it to go. Stein is fully aware of the political and cultural implications of his vision of the future of reading and writing, which shifts the emphasis away from the individual and onto the community. It’s asking people to understand that authored works are part of a larger flow of ideas and information.
Donna Baumbach

More Twilight: New Moon fun | Bright ideas - 0 views

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 10 Nov 09
     
    Twilight related puzzles and quizzes
Jennifer Garcia

Benettonplay! Flipbook! - Maker - 9 views

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shared by Jennifer Garcia on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 10 Nov 09
     
    A basic paint app that allows you to create flip ebooks.
Cathy Oxley

Google Lit Trips! - 11 views

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googlelit googlemaps GoogleEarth books stories authors literature trips journeys digital storytelling cool tools

shared by Cathy Oxley on 13 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 13 Nov 09
     
    This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took plleace...
Donna Baumbach

Welcome to TeachingBooks - 0 views

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books reading authors websites children's_lit ya_lit

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  • Donna Baumbach on 17 Nov 09
     
    training resources for TeachingBooks.net
Donna Baumbach

New Moon - 0 views

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  • Donna Baumbach on 21 Nov 09
     
    Guide from Shmoop Summary, themes, quotes, questions, characters, literary devices, trivia, weblinks
Dennis OConnor

YouTube - Finding Your Passion - 0 views

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Video writing 6-traits

shared by Dennis OConnor on 22 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Children's author Eric Kimmel describes how to find your passion. More information about Eric's work at www.erickimmel.com.
  • Dennis OConnor on 22 Apr 11
     
    A Horn for Louis, how Louis Armstrong found his passion. Great anecdotes about Armstrong, Marc Chagall, and Harry Houdini that lead to Kimmel's books.
Fran Bullington

South Carolina 2011 - Author & Consultant Chris Crutcher - 8 views

www.chriscrutcher.com/south-carolina-2011.html

banned_books ALA censorship chris_crutcher

shared by Fran Bullington on 07 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Fran Bullington on 07 Jul 11
     
    Letter to Kershaw County students about the bannng of his book Angry Management from summer reading list.
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