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ADAM CARRON

CDWG - Using E-books in School: Negotiate, Train, Pilot, Expand -- THE Journal - 0 views

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ebooks technology library digital storytelling

shared by ADAM CARRON on 20 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • ADAM CARRON on 20 Jun 12
     
    21st Century Classroom: Transforming the Textbook In 21st century classrooms, blackboard chalk is on the endangered list, the pop quiz has been replaced with clicker questions, and bowling alley technology (overhead projector transparencies) has disappeared, thanks to digital projectors and document cameras.
Pure Money Making

Stock market for beginners - 0 views

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stock market for beginners what is stock market what is stock elliott wave

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  • Pure Money Making on 15 Dec 13
     
    With the advent of IT, now the stock markets have become almost paperless. Now you open a trading account with a broker, transfer the requisite amount and you can start trading in stocks from home.
Donna Baumbach

ChildrensLiteratureWebGuide - Wiki.ucalgary.ca - 1 views

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5225 literature reading children's_lit

shared by Donna Baumbach on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 12 Nov 09
     
    The Children's Literature Web Guide Wiki is a cooperative effort between the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, David Brown's Children's Literature Web Guide and you. Please feel free to add any quality Children's Literature resources, Children's Literature Best Books of the Year Children's Literature Teacher Resources Children's Literature Award Sites Children's Literature Parent Resources Children's Literature Recommended Book Lists Children's Literature Storytellers Resources Children's Literature K-12 Favorites List Children's Literature Writers and Illustrators Resources Children's Literature Publishers
Cathy Oxley

APA and MLA Citation Game Home Page - 45 views

depts.washington.edu/...index.htm

research apa mla citations game tutorials

shared by Cathy Oxley on 06 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 06 Dec 12
     
    Here you will play an interactive game and learn how to correctly format APA or MLA citations for some of the most commonly used citation types.
Sally Dooley

Pingree: Learning in Commons Conference - 13 views

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learningcommons librarydesign

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  • Sally Dooley on 25 Oct 13
     
    Transforming the traditional library into a learning commons.
Carla Shinn

Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting & Sound - 13 views

mediahistoryproject.org

research 2.0 information literacy Information fluency

shared by Carla Shinn on 29 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 29 Aug 13
     
    The Media History Digital Library. Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound. We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 800,000 pages, and that number is growing. Our Collections feature Extensive Runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
Catherine Graham-Smith

DERN - 16 views

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digital identity footprint digital citizenship

shared by Catherine Graham-Smith on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Catherine Graham-Smith on 21 Nov 13
     
    Excellent report on teenagers and digital identity
Fran Bullington

Authentic Assessment Toolbox Home Page - 10 views

jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/...index.htm

assessment authentic rubrics standards education resource portfolios

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  • Fran Bullington on 13 Jul 10
     
    "to the Authentic Assessment Toolbox, a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning."
Camilla Elliott

BBC Schools - Musical Mysteries - Home Page - 5 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...mm

interactive ebooks P-6 reading BBC literacy

shared by Camilla Elliott on 09 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Camilla Elliott on 09 Jul 10
     
    Interactive story for juniors from BBC. Provides example then encourages reader to build their own components into the story. Good for early readers.
Robin Cicchetti

BBC News - World News America - Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age - 11 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8999128.stm

history critical thinking research 2.0 Twitter

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Physically this data might exist somewhere but the challenge is making it accessible to future historians.
  • "The average life of a web page, as best as we can tell, is about 100 days before it is either updated or disappears.
  • "We are grappling with digital migration as a means of preservation, rather than analogue, paper-based preservation. The Twitter archive ratchets up this activity enormously."
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Twitter donated its digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress in April 2010.
  • "So not only is everyone producing history, everyone has access to history and everyone has to be a historian in the digital age."
  • Robin Cicchetti on 23 Sep 10
     
    Succinct article about the transience of digital information and the impact on history.
Bright Ideas

Allen & Unwin - For teenagers - 22 views

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books reading libraries technology socialmedia promoting allen unwin

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  • Bright Ideas on 08 Nov 10
     
    Social media site for publishers Allen and Unwin. Great way to promote reading to your students.
beth gourley

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

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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
  • ...62 more annotations...
  • 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.
    • beth gourley
      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.
Janice Stearns

School Libraries Work! - 0 views

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library research

shared by Janice Stearns on 10 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • Janice Stearns on 10 Apr 08
     
    Research foundation paper that shows how school libraries help students learn -- and improve test scores.
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