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Historic Map Works is an online gallery of hundreds of historical maps. On Historic Map Works you can browse for maps by continent, country, state, and province. Contrary to my initial experience, downloading the map images is not free. But, you can view more than half of the maps as Google Maps overlays using Historic Map Works's free Historic Earth Basic.
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BookLamp is a book analytic engine powered by the Book Genome Project. BookLamp's technology has applications in book discovery, reader advisory, and book suggestions similar to how Pandora.com analyzes music. Delete the scoop?
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Pineapples Don't Have Sleeves... Safe to say that you wouldn’t be HERE if you were unaware of the back story - this charming and delightful parable having morphed into arguments about standardized testing. If, by chance, you want to read about that controversy, click HERE for an informative piece by Lisa Fleisher. Delete the scoop?
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The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. Delete the scoop?
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Ever noticed that not all e-book formats are compatible with all devices? As a matter of fact, it seems that most devices have their own set of formats that it reads and these are rarely congruous with other readers. This poses quite the issue for school libraries looking to incorporate these devices. Delete the scoop?
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Think remix as an alternative to Bloom's taxonomy.
Since completing my doctoral thesis on digital and new literacies, I've been thinking a lot about how educators can use my work in a practical way. In Chapter 9 of my thesis I come up with eight 'essential elements' of digital literacies, ... Via Mary Ann Reilly Delete the scoop?
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Every child in America deserves access to an effective school library program. We ask that the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provide dedicated funding to help support effective school library programs. Delete the scoop?
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In association with the Children’s Book Council (CBC) and Every Child a Reader (ECAR), Teenreads.com is giving you a very special opportunity to let your voices be heard by telling us your five favorite books of 2011. The five titles that receive the most votes will serve as the finalists for the CBC’s 2012 Teen Choice Book of the Year. Once the five finalists have been determined, we will tell you where you can go vote for them. The winner will be announced in May 2012. Delete the scoop?
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Angela Maiers shares 12 important things to know about kids today... Delete the scoop?
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Official demo video for Mobile Mouse 2.0. http://www.mobilemouse.com Air Mouse instantly transforms your iPhone or iPod touch into an in air, wireless remote... Delete the scoop?
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"I keep asking myself a question in these situations (I hope the librarians and teachers in the room are asking it, too): when these kids leave school, are they also reading every day? And if they are, how big would the reading slice of pie be compared to, say, posting on Facebook, listening to music, and texting their friends? I’m increasingly convinced that I’m staring at a pie where 90 percent of the slices are cut up into non-reading forms of entertainment and social media."
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The Daring librarian uses her comic tutorials once again to teach about creating QR Codes in 3 easy steps. She is so talented and can make any concept attainable.
QR codes are something that I LOVE and we are beginning to use them in our school more and more! Delete the scoop?
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In addition to books and video media, I have found a desire from students to put music and other sounds into their movies, presentations and projects. A well versed Library-Information Hub should know tools like this as well.
Here are nine free tools that students can use to create their own music online.
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The concept of an “e-book” is a strange one. Just consider the idea of pages on a screen--is that metaphor really the best way for us to explore written content? And do e-books still need to books at all? Delete the scoop?
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Imagination is the ability to form mental images, phonological passages, analogies, or narratives of something that is not perceived through our senses. Via Stephanie Sandifer Delete the scoop?
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Perhaps most impressive is this finding: Tablet ownership among college students and college-bound high school students has more than tripled from a year ago. The survey also reveals that more students are reading digital books than were last year, and a majority of college students and high school seniors believe that tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years. Delete the scoop?
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The new issue of School Library Journal features a cover story called, “Next Year’s Model: Sarah Ludwig left the library, became a tech coordinator, and forged a path to the future.” Unless I have misinterpreted the article, author Linda Braun wonders if school librarians have to leave the library and take on a completely different job title to do the work of a modern school librarian. The thesis seems to be that school librarians taking on job titles other than school librarian, like “technology coordinator”, might be the future of the profession. While I’ve had my own misgivings about the future of the profession, I respectfully disagree with Linda Braun and would argue that such a path will only lead to the demise, not the flowering, of our profession’s future. Delete the scoop?
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Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation, levels of new literacies, general digital media usage, and social patterns affect these activities.
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March 6, 2012 6:07 PM
Went to read the article then scooped it - so thanks for finding it through your network.
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Last year, my pal Charles Fishman wrote a really smart book about a really big subject: Water. Delete the scoop?
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The ISTE awards team has only received 1 nomination for the the SIGMS Award! Lets go folks, Nominate one of the great people you know and work with! Delete the scoop?
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Seventeen year-old New York high school senior Samantha Garvey became homeless on New Year’s Eve. Samantha’s mom had been in a car accident and hadn’t been able to work for 8 months because of her injuries. Her dad, a cab driver, couldn’t pay the bills on his job alone. As a result, Samantha and her family had to move into a homeless shelter — a very rough start to a new year. Delete the scoop?
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Information Technology and Libraries publishes material related to all aspects of libraries and information technology, including digital libraries, metadata, authorization and authentication, electronic journals and electronic publishing, telecommunications, distributed systems and networks, computer security and intellectual property rights, technical standards, geographic information systems, desktop applications, online catalogs and bibliographic systems, optical information systems, software engineering, universal access to technology, futuristic forecasting, library consortia, vendor relations, and technology and the arts. Delete the scoop?
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Blogs are like pets - you have to feed them regularly & Wikis are like a cactus plant - you can water them occasionally. Delete the scoop?
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Literature Map could be useful for students who have read all their favorite author's books and are looking for other good books to read. Delete the scoop?
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Historic Map Works is an online gallery of hundreds of historical maps. On Historic Map Works you can browse for maps by continent, country, state, and province. Contrary to my initial experience, downloading the map images is not free. But, you can view more than half of the maps as Google Maps overlays using Historic Map Works's free Historic Earth Basic. |
