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"Storify harnesses curation's role in telling a story by providing a linear platform and the opportunity to link related content with the curator's own text. (Mihailides and Cohen, 2013). Making a story out of linked multimedia content requires media literacy skills of analysis, evaluation and creation."

By suewaters | Curating best resources shared at EduTECH conference Like the flipboard format.

By suewaters | Curating best resources shared at EduTECH conference

By suewaters | Curating best resources shared at EduTECH conference

Activities and posters suitable for Junior - Middle School students.

·   We are living in an Age of Misinformation - not the information age. - Students need to learn how to access information as well as synthesize it to draw conclusions.  This is college and career readiness.  Not, finding information on Google or mere vetted websites and jotting those notes into a pro-forma document or virtual index cards.  

Detailed instructions for using Padlet (formerly Wallwisher)

The Book Girls are only partly real; like most heavily marketed-to demographics, they only sort of exist. Every Book Girl is something else, too - a sportsy girl, a scientist, a nail-art aficionado, a poet, a prodigy, a patient. But the force they are exerting is real. They have created a market for what they love, and they insist upon it. They have allies in boyfriends and boy friends, in parents and other adults, in librarians and book critics. The world of their books is much more complicated than just them, and they are more complicated than just their books.

The principle of the MeasuringWorth is that there is no one standard measure for comparing what a monetary value in the past is worth today. The best measure depends on the question asked. At present, we have comparators that give you seven answers for the United States (from 1774 on), five for the United Kingdom (from 1270 on), five for Australia (from 1828 on). These dates are determined by the limits of available data.

Excellent online overview about technology for educators

Thanks for sharing Anne, I hope people find it useful. I am happy for people to use it as required, if you could make sure to keep my name on the footer - Thanks! Dianne

Thank you both! This is SUPER useful.

Expanding Our Wikiverse Save the books. And the film reels. The photos, the manuscripts, the letters, the maps. These artifacts that fill our libraries threaten to sink into oblivion. But the good news? You can save them.

"This kind of feedback loop-wherein an error that appears on Wikipedia then trickles to sources that Wikipedia considers authoritative, which are in turn used as evidence for the original falsehood-is a documented phenomenon."

This guide will help you find and correctly attribute public domain and Creative Commons images for your project or presentation.

Retracing Our Steps Although now a remote, dusty city at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in present-day Mali, 700 years ago Timbuktu was a bustling commercial and academic center. Traders exchanged salt and gold, while Muslim scholars collected and wrote texts on Islam, medicine, astronomy, math, politics and more.