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Yesterday, the ever-churning machine that is the Internet pumped out more unfiltered digital data. Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 BILLION emails were sent. And that's not counting all the check-ins, friend requests, Yelp reviews and Amazon posts, and pins on Pintrest.

The Ultimate List of Content Curation Tools and accompanying map, is comprised of both business grade tools that support organizations' content marketing strategies, as well as personal curation tools that can be used by individuals for hobbyist or organizational purposes. Content curation is when an individual (or team) consistently finds, organizes, annotates and shares the ...

How can we inspire students to pursue knowledge instead of being passive recipients of information? How do we foster in them a desire to learn? Digital learning specialist Kerry Gallagher of St. John's Preparatory School offered a three-point roadmap during the opening keynote session of ISTE 2016 in Denver.

This is a link Professor Schroeder sent out in a discussion. I'm excited with these ideas.

This handout describes how I plan to integrate social media (Twitter) into my online astronomy class. With minor modifications, it would work equally well in a face-to-face class.

The ACT ® Mastery and MasteryKeys programs are support structures for principals and district administrators throughout the country. Our programs help schools provide best-in-class test preparation to students of all ability levels. Our programs are uniquely effective; in fact, our ACT ® Mastery program provides an average three-point increase in student scores in an institutional setting.

With Soundtrap you make music or podcasts online. You can plug in your own instrument, use the software instruments and loops available in Soundtrap or just record a song directly with your computer microphone. It's super-easy!

This is a complete semester course on computer fundamentals. Currently using a third party for online courses, but this would be a great model if we would ever need to bring it in-house.

Great resource for a unit on internet safety. I have searched around before, and have only found a limited amount of resources that stop short of purchasing a whole curriculum. Will use for middle school computers.

There's a quiet-or not so quiet-shift happening in school libraries across America. The social media revolution-reflected in all manner of shiny iPhone apps, blogs, Nings, Facebook pages, and other social networking tools, sites, and platforms-is real, and it's running like a loud line of students straight through the stacks, into the common areas, taking a sharp turn, and heading right on up to the teacher librarian/media specialist's desk.

Facebook. Flickr. Google+. Pinterest. Tumblr. Twitter. Yelp. The list of social networking sites is almost endless, bringing huge potential (and some headaches) to librarians nationwide. Will libraries continue to be able to keep up with the rapid- almost instantaneous-changes in technology and social networking? The consensus is: Yes.