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For the Google generation, closing school libraries could be disastrous. Not teaching kids how to sift through sources is like sending them into the world without knowing how to read.

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A GREAT example of social media in action. Also a very good example of the power of Prezi. This would be great as a homework assignment prior to a lesson on social media and/or an example of a well constructed, web-based narrative. Students could analyze all the elements and evaluate the sources.

The Learning Registry project is an informal collaboration among several federal agencies that share the same goal: making federal learning resources and primary source materials easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments.

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Primary sources

Shows how information appears in different types of sources over time. Includes the flow for 1953: Crick & Watson - Determine the Structure of DNA

Students can type in what they are researching and the search will return the top sources cited for that topic!

Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research  Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold - over a day, a week, a month or more - reflecting the event's actual duration."

From the Brisbane festival - idea of a British Entrepreneur, a fantastic forum for information exchange - follow through the refinement of a problem - information process based- then using crowd sourcing, try to suggest a way forward.  Cases posted regularly

"Citelighter is an easy-to-use academic research tool that utilizes a community of students to help you find valuable content, automatically cite sources, and provide an organizational framework for writing your papers."

Authority. Authenticity. Ownership. Perspective. These four pillars make up the critical facets of the information we consume -- and understanding them makes us and our students wiser users of information. However, on the web, people often make assumptions about the authority and authenticity of information, and it can be challenging to understand ownership and perspective. The Glean Who-Is Tool help you and your students learn to investigate web-based content sources. By using technical information about websites ("whois"), along with historical and factual information, the tool encourages us to dig more deeply, to understand more thoroughly, and to critique more closely.

Source for Tennant's article in LJ

Contribute to crowd sourced ebook on the future of school libraries! _______________________________________________________________________ Timeline July 11, 2011 - Submissions open! September 15, 2011 - submissions due October 26 - November 16, 2011 - ebook available for free download after November 16, 2011 - price may increase to $.99; possible print-on-demand release

Create movies and posters using primary sources