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Anne Weaver

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

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    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…
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    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…
Katie Silva

Understanding by Design: Essential Questions | Fluency21 – Committed Sardine Blog - 0 views

  • questions that are not answerable with finality in a brief sentence… Their aim is to stimulate thought, to provoke inquiry, and to spark more questions — including thoughtful student questions — not just pat answers” (106).  In order to think in terms of questions, “[i]nstead of thinking of content as something to be covered, consider knowledge and skill as the means of addressing questions central to understanding key issues in your subject” (107)
  • we are likely to change our minds in response to reflection and experience concerning such questions as we go through life, and changes of mind are not only expected but beneficial” (108).
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    Does anyone have essential questions for literature focus time with younger students?
Buffy Hamilton

A note to Jane D. "Google ROCKS!" | Cathy Nelson's Professional Thoughts - 0 views

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    Thoughtful post about the benefits of gmail from Google.
Cathy Oxley

Adventist Schools Victoria - LEARNING AND TEACHING - 7 views

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    Here in Tumblr teachers particularly, will see some visual stimuli and thinking prompts that may provoke them to also develop such visual and thought provoking stimuli for use with their students around their teaching and learning themes.
Nancy Prentice

http://blog.scoop.it/2013/06/06/five-little-rules-for-lean-thought-leadership/ - 0 views

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    solid advice for the TL seeking to influence...
jenibo

Free Technology for Teachers: What QR Codes Can Do For You! - 36 views

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    I always thought QR codes were a bit of a gimmick, but the wonderful Richard Byrne points out some fantastically useful and practical applications for them.
Angie Spann

Comment on, edit, and fill PDF files, Word documents, images and more | Crocodoc - 22 views

    • Angie Spann
       
      Teachers could use this as a common place to have a group read a text and annotate it with questions, ideas, etc.  Students could then comment on each others annotations. Art teachers could use this as a way to have students critique each others work.  Social Studies teachers could use this to analyze primary source documents.
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    Sharing thoughts and comments on a common article.
Anthony Beal

Why Information Literacy? | National Forum on Information Literacy - 28 views

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    Why is information literacy critical to our transformation as an Information Society? The Teaching in the 21st Century video below gives you a unique insight into how the framework of teaching and learning has been dynamically transformed and what we need to do, as facilitators, to ensure our success as a nation moving forward. So take a few moments to view it and share your thoughts. Pass it along to others…join us in our mainstreaming mission.
Anthony Beal

JC's Extra Curricular Activities: Metablogging and the Connected World - 10 views

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    A student reflects on using blogs in education. Some interesting thoughts.
ADAM CARRON

Search Results | Gizmodo Australia - 0 views

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jenibo

Hannah Smith: Even More Tragic Than Originally Thought | Cyberbullying Research Center - 4 views

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    Interesting take: Cyber self harm - not so rare as you might think.
Cathy Oxley

Cube Creator - ReadWriteThink - 10 views

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    Encourages more thoughtful and organised writing. 4 options: Bio cube, Mystery cube, Story cube, Create-your-own cube
Donna Baumbach

Thoughts On School Leaders And Technology Integration... - 9 views

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    a few of the key points to keep in mind as administrators, specialists, superitendents and other school leaders make decisions regarding technology.
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    Although aimed at administrators, I think the message fits school library media specialists (who ARE leaders) too.
Bright Ideas

popplet - 0 views

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    A great tool to explore ideas and thoughts visually and collaboratively.
Bright Ideas

Through global lenses @wfc | Finland, Florida and Australia - 10 views

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    You may remember reading about Whitefriars College teacher librarian Tania Sheko's collaborative learning project using Flickr. The project has now concluded and a few of the students have shared their thoughts, reflections and ideas about what they loved most about the project.
beth gourley

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories - 0 views

  • The man shrugged and replied, �In a year, the king may die. In a year, I may die. In a year, the horse may talk!�
  • Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
  • connects the information people and the story people
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  • May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction
  • It offers constant problems and perplexities
  • strong role in domesticating
  • Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
  • Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
  • Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
  • even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally
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      I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word
  • change is our only certainty
  • argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
  • Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.
  • Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.
  • Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.
  • also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
  • available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
  • librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas
  • readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
  • core values of librarianship are access and service
  • always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy
  • Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.
  • Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth
  • Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
  • nformation person and a story person
  • Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens:
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    ©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS
Donna Baumbach

Cultivating a PLN through your reader - 0 views

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