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New Book Releases, Week of February 12, 2012 | Lytherus

New Book Releases, Week of February 12, 2012 | Lytherus | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
New Book Releases, Week of February 12, 2012. Tweet. Written by Lauren Zurchin on February 16th, 2012. Here's a list of all the fantasy, sci-fi and horror coming out this week. To see the covers, click on the titles.
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Martin Scorsese: Teaching Visual Literacy | Edutopia

Martin Scorsese: Teaching Visual Literacy | Edutopia | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
A conversation on the importance of -- and relationship between -- films and education.

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The News Literacy Project

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The News Literacy Project is an innovative national program to mobilize journalists to help middle and high school students sort fact from fiction in the digital age.

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The Digital Writer: Digital Culture Reading

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Gideon Burton, Digital Culture Reading.


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Google Earth: 1 Billion Downloads and So Many Uses in the Classroom | edte.ch

Google Earth: 1 Billion Downloads and So Many Uses in the Classroom | edte.ch | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it

Google Earth was one of the very first pieces of software that I began to create educational resources with. --SourceEdTech: Inspire, Connect, Engage, Create.


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Story Sundays – ‘Rain’ by Alexander McCall Smith

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It’s interesting when the writer of a piece of fiction begins his story by calmly declaring that one of his techniques bears no dint of conceit, when, in fact, it is typically thought of as conceited.


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DRAGON: Gabriel García Márquez / Georges Simenon

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The Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote the following piece as an introduction to a small book entitled El mismo cuento distinto (Barcelona: Tusquets, 1994).

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Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'

Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity' | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
The writer and semiologist advocates a sexual revolution to make us all 'European' (Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity' http://t.co/QK3CFwD3 via...

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School Libraries Grapple with Surge in Ereaders

School Libraries Grapple with Surge in Ereaders | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it

While ownership of digital reading devices nearly doubled among adults after the holidays, a similar phenomenon has occurred among teens, according to school librarians, who see the trend as a unique opportunity.

 

The number of adults who own a tablet computer or ebook reader surged from 10 percent to 19 percent between mid-December 2111 and early January 2012, according to a study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

 

Likewise, school librarians have observed that more students had acquired digital reading devices over the winter break, too—providing an opportunity for lessons on ebook borrowing, not to mention piracy.


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The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons | The Edublogger

The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons | The Edublogger | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it

With this post the folks at Edublogger, hope to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online.


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Pinterest is blowing up – with cries of copyright infringement

Pinterest is blowing up – with cries of copyright infringement | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
What's the place of Pinterest at your library? Is there really a copyright issue?

 

"Pinterest's potential is huge - but does the platform pave the way to copyright infringements?

Pinterest is many things to many people. For some it’s a collection of things you aspire to own, for others a source of DIY inspiration, or even a way to pitch an advertising campaign. While it definitely appeals more to some than others, you can’t deny its overwhelming command of the social market and its incredible growth"...

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New Book Releases, Week of February 12, 2012 | Lytherus

New Book Releases, Week of February 12, 2012 | Lytherus | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
New Book Releases, Week of February 12, 2012. Tweet. Written by Lauren Zurchin on February 16th, 2012. Here's a list of all the fantasy, sci-fi and horror coming out this week. To see the covers, click on the titles.
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70 Tools 70 Minutes

Presented to Teacher2Teacher Conference, Bow Island, Canada March 2010...


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A Short Introduction To Historypin

Historypin is a digital time machine that creates a new way for the world to see and share history. It was created by We Are What We Do, in partnership with ...Shared by Seth Dixon in Geography Education Scoop.iT


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Connectivism

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Are You Connected? Do You Know What It Means?

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Salman Rushdie's Twitter debut

Salman Rushdie's Twitter debut | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
The author has taken to tweeting – despite discovering an imposter (RT @GreeGreece: Salman Rushdie's Twitter debut http://t.co/D9dur2zs...)...

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WLT | Events & News | Critically acclaimed Indian-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry wins 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

WLT | Events & News | Critically acclaimed Indian-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry wins 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it

Critically acclaimed Indian-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry wins 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Critically acclaimed Indian-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry wins the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.)...


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Crowdfunding for film adaptation of Amitav Ghosh's Shadow Lines - The Asian Age

Crowdfunding for film adaptation of Amitav Ghosh's Shadow Lines - The Asian Age | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
Crowdfunding for Amitav's movieThe Asian AgeAmitav Ghosh's Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel The Shadow Lines will be filmed soon. The filmmakers have already started collecting money through an online fundraiser.

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Free Schools Thinking: Places and Spaces for Teaching and Learning

This  guide from the British Council for School Environments and the Centre for School Design is about the new freedoms available for schools and the potential for rethinking the places, spaces, times and people involved.

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Teachers warned over befriending pupils on Facebook

Teachers warned over befriending pupils on Facebook | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
Experts warn of big gulf in school social networking policies, as staff use Twitter, chatrooms and emails to contact children...

 

There are big differences between schools' policies on social networking: some ban teachers from having accounts entirely, while at others staff can be Facebook "friends" with pupils.


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The Case for Social Media in the Classroom

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Educators must teach their students to be effective citizens of the digital world.

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Turning students into better "digital citizens" | wlbz2.com

Turning students into better "digital citizens" | wlbz2.com | St Margaret's Library News | Scoop.it
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