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Has Google turned the corner and begun to subvert search results for self promotion? " It has degraded its premier product in service of promoting others. It has done devious things to ferret out information from its users that they do not willingly provide."

what do we lose as we bid farewell to what may turn out to have been a brief period in which common people owned physical books?

Google has pushed out a pretty cool demo, which invites you to collaborate with some of the greatest writers of all time. Kind of. A "famous writer" will start typing and then it's your turn. Once you've typed in the next line, the writer takes over. It's kind of fun.

Annenberg Learner uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.

" a little macro that pulls the cost figure from each item's record, adds them all up, and provides a total. We present it in kind of a cutesy context, but the intent is to show people how much they save by using the library. Check it out:"

Fortunately, there are some great websites and services that take the guesswork out of finding and sorting educational video content.

Join Ludwig on an exciting journey through the world of physics. Find out how energy is created from fire, water, wind and sun and use them cleverly to protect the Robotronics on Unitron against the impending energy collapse!

from Teaching with the Library of Congress

Check out the resources! iPad Institute http://t.co/iXgUIb44 #tlchat University of Deleware

Several Nebraska educators and a school librarian review iPad apps for education. Everything is laid out in an easy-to-read grid format, with different pages for various subjects.

"Similar in structure to a literature-based library, the Ceramic Library loans out unique handmade cups made by thirteen nationally-known potters, for a period of seven days."

Ceramics on loan

Interesting approach to identifying keywords: Draw the question. Thinking about which words you would act out in charades could be a variation on this.

It's time for school librarians to speak out about how they help students meet learning standards. This advocacy kit provides templates and talking points for meetings with students, teachers, administrators, school boards and parents.

Infographic on effective Google search techniques

Need an idea for a Twitter chat for educators to get professional development?  Check out this list.

"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."

"The purpose of this survey is to find out about how students can help if someone is being hurtful to a student either at school or online. It is your choice whether you want to do this survey. No one will be able tell which responses are yours. Try to answer all of the questions. But you can skip any that you do not understand, feel like answering, or are told to skip. This survey should take about 20 to 30 minutes. In all of the following questions the words "be hurtful" or "being hurtful" include when someone: - Says hurtful things or sends hurtful messages to another person. - Says hurtful things about a person to others or posts hurtful things about someone online. - Hurtfully excludes someone from participating in school activities. - Physically hurts someone or their property, or threatens to do so. Sometimes this is referred to as bullying or cyberbullying."

Reveals who Google thinks you are when it targets ads. Shared in a course on Google and the media out of Northwestern, Professor Youngman.