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This is a fantastic Australian authoritative and free online Magazine that I regularly read - and this article is relevant to the TL.

Task-oriented question construction wheel (polygon) based on Bloom's Taxonomy

All new students go through quite a lengthy induction process in the first three weeks at the University. The library is slotted into that - how much time we get with the students varies between departments - and so it's a good opportunity for us to make contact, promote our services, and try and embed ourselves in the academic culture, but also tricky because the students are overloaded with information as it is. I wanted to give each of my departments an interactive map with all the library info relevant to them specifically - the idea being that it's easier to navigate an actual map of the library than it is to just search for stuff on the library website. Because each department would have a bespoke map it would mean the students had all the info they needed in one place, and because I created the maps in Prezi they could also be used as a presentation tool (as well as a stand-alone web object, later; I give students the URL of the Prezi itself and tell them not to worry about writing down any of the other URLs it contains).

In response to http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/st_thompson_searchresults

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text

Great mid year assessment by Susan Myers of Spartanburg High School.

This is a great tool, easy to use and produces a high quality product - very exciting! Free as well.

Glean Learning Tools are free information literacy, data literacy and math teaching tools produced by Public Learning Media, Inc., an education technology 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Excellent guide to research

SLJ article by Doug Johnson about copyright.