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Top 20 LiveBinders you should not Miss ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Top 20 LiveBinders you should not Miss ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

"LiveBinder is one the best   bookmarking web tools out there. It allows users to organize  links and web content into binders with titles and descriptions attached to each binder. I am pretty sure you are already familiar with  LiveBinder and how it works. Below is a set of some of the top LiveBinders that contain great resources and materials of relevant interest to us in education. Check out the list below and share with us your feedback. Enjoy."


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Transparency is the new fierce « NeverEndingSearch

Transparency is the new fierce « NeverEndingSearch | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

Joyce concludes with:"We are all about openness, communication, and accountability. At a time when we need to world to recognize our contribution to learning, we must be transparent. It should be our culture.  Let’s make 2012 a year to be both fierce and transparent."

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11 Sample Education BYOT Policies To Help You Create Your Own

11 Sample Education BYOT Policies To Help You Create Your Own | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
11 sample BYOT policies to help a school or district create their own.

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A place to start!

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Five Search Engines You Can Use to Search the Deep Web

Five Search Engines You Can Use to Search the Deep Web | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

Unlike pages on the visible Web (that is, the Web that you can access from search engines and directories), information in the Deep Web is just not visible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes. Since this information makes up the vast majority of available content on the Web, we are potentially missing out on some pretty amazing resources.


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Just a reminder about what 'else' is out there to access!

Karen Bonanno's curator insight, April 27, 4:21 PM

Meta search in action.

Elizabeth Hutchinson's curator insight, April 28, 8:00 AM

usefulothers useful to know when teaching searching to 6th formers!

 

Deborah Welsh's curator insight, April 28, 7:09 PM

Looking a bit more deeply in seeking information

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Infographics

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Librarians of the future infographic.

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Informative Infographic!
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Getting Kids Engaged with Primary Sources | Cool Tools - The Digital Shift

Getting Kids Engaged with Primary Sources | Cool Tools - The Digital Shift | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

"The World Digital Library is a database of more than 7,000 primary source documents and images from around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource. Search tools and content descriptions are available in seven languages..."


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We have the digital equivilent sources in Australian Libraries too

Dennis T OConnor's curator insight, April 22, 9:29 PM

Research with primary sources moves kids from textbooks to the real world. 

Judith Morais's curator insight, April 25, 8:14 AM

A good range of primary resources that can be used for teaching. The World Digital Library takes you to Australian resources too.

Lucinda Scott-Kellermeier's curator insight, April 25, 4:46 PM

Good links for students and teachers alike, especially in the fields of history and social studies.

 

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Slidestory | Digital Storytelling Tool

Slidestory | Digital Storytelling Tool | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

Slidestory is a new, exciting and FREE way to make presentations and share them on the Internet.

 

Slidestories are picture slideshows with voice narration. Each picture in a slideshow has an accompanying voice narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text caption.


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A mlitimadia opportunity.

Karen Bonanno's curator insight, April 9, 4:42 PM

If you go to the FAQs you will see a list under categories. There is an education category that you can check to see examples of how Slidestory is used.

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A Great Guide on How to Cite Social Media Using Both MLA and APA styles

A Great Guide on How to Cite Social Media Using Both MLA and APA styles | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

Conducting an extensive data mining for writing a scholarly academic paper does definitely require using online digital resources. Admittedly, a lot of the resources you want to cite in your paper can be found online and most of them through social media


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Expanding our digital literacy skills all the time.

Meryl Jaffe, PhD's curator insight, April 11, 9:44 AM

Thanks for this link!

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Education Database Online Blog

Infographic about the pros and cons of digital research

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Demonstrates the importance of focused instruction with researching and time management.

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Learners Should Be Developing Their Own Essential Questions

Learners Should Be Developing Their Own Essential Questions | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
Having essential questions drive curriculum and learning has become core to many educators' instructional practices.  Grant Wiggins, in his work on Understanding By Design, describes an essential q...

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To move students beyond receivers and transmitters of information, to thinkers and producers of new ideas and connections.

Glenda Morris's curator insight, April 11, 3:33 AM

UbD - essential questions

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AASL School Library Month - Community Gallery

A picture says 1,000 words…and these pictures say words in support of school librarians and school library programs


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Karen Bonanno's curator insight, April 2, 6:30 PM

Quotable quotes for you to share.

Rita Godwin's curator insight, April 21, 8:14 AM

Quotes from the famous about how wonderful school libraries really are.

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The Keyword Blog: 21cif: Operator Search Challenge

The Keyword Blog: 21cif: Operator Search Challenge | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

Here's a recently revised online game to teach the use of operators when searching for information on the internet. The game lives within a controlled search field where using operators is the only way to solve the challenge. This is just one of many free online training games promoting information fluency. 

 

Try it! You'll be challenged!.


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MindMup: Working with Google Drive

MindMup: Working with Google Drive | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
Gerald Carey's curator insight, May 11, 8:28 PM

Includes instructions on how to save MindMups into Google Drive

Ronald BELLET's curator insight, May 12, 4:15 PM

Un #outil d'#organisation simple et gratuit qui permet de stocker ses cartes mentales (#mindmaps) dans google #drive.

Mueller, Chad's curator insight, May 15, 10:12 AM

What a great tool!

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With Book Creator 2.5 Released With a Fantastic New Sharing Option

With Book Creator 2.5 Released With a Fantastic New Sharing Option | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

"Book Creator is currently my favorite iPad app for creating multimedia books on your iPad. The app costs $4.99 (less with volume purchasing), but it is well worth it. The latest updates to Book Creator allows you to export your books to ePub 3.0 format. The exported file can be opened an read in the Chrome web browser using the free Readium browser extension. This is a great option as it allows a parent who doesn’t have an iPad at home to view his or her child’s work at home"




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Good for multimodal text creation on latest iPad iOS6.

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ALA Task Force releases recommendations to advance digital literacy - District Dispatch

ALA Task Force releases recommendations to advance digital literacy - District Dispatch | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

Libraries of all types – school, academic, and public – play a vital role in ensuring all people have the skills and abilities to succeed in the Digital Age.

The American Library Association’s (ALA) Digital Literacy Task Force releases its recommendations to advance and sustain library engagement in digital literacy initiatives nationwide.  It's a call to action on the part of the ALA, library education programs, front-line librarians, various funding bodies, and the diverse stakeholders who use and support library services.

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In theory - great ideas . . the library voice as part of the conversation.

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Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills

Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
Many educators are explicitly teaching such skills as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines.

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The inclusion of the school librarian is significant!

Linda Dougherty's curator insight, June 12, 12:09 AM

Good article to share with your teachers who are looking to improve student research skills to meet standards.

Maria Persson's comment, June 17, 11:00 PM
If this happens in the early years of learning it will not be such an issue at the tertiary level where plagiarism is still a real problem!
Maria Persson's curator insight, June 17, 11:07 PM

A number of great points that are both practical and theoritical in terms of how to assist students' understanding of digital literacy skills, preparing them for the future, increasing their understanding of what the future might bring! 

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Australian Curriculum Lessons

Australian Curriculum Lessons | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

Australian Curriculum Lessons is a website dedicated to providing lesson, activities, resources and information to Australian teachers.


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Crowd-sourced information. Updates via Facebook with links to awide variety of curriculum interests.

Karen Bonanno's curator insight, May 27, 3:09 AM

Australian Curriculum lessons via their Facebook link

Sally Tilley's curator insight, June 5, 6:46 PM

What a brilliant idea! Thank you for sharing :-)

Sally Tilley's curator insight, June 5, 6:47 PM

What a great idea! Thanks for sharing :-)

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Catching Up With The Kids: Moving School Libraries Into The New Media Era - TeachThought

Catching Up With The Kids: Moving School Libraries Into The New Media Era - TeachThought | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
Catching Up With The Kids: Moving School Libraries Into The New Media Era

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Some just 'catch-up' faster than others.

SCIS's curator insight, April 24, 12:57 AM

Do we need to change our mindset?

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The Library Marketing Toolkit

The Library Marketing Toolkit | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
A website full of ideas and techniques to help you market your library successfully.

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. . . to be investigated further . . .

Amy Barr's curator insight, April 23, 9:22 AM

Learning Hub

Donna Watt's curator insight, April 24, 12:54 AM

It's the time of the year when no-one's thinking about library advocacy, and maybe we're all feeling a little bit snug and secure in the daily routine. Perhaps it's the perfect time to review some advocacy tools and begin the work well before the end of year budget cuts?

Rita Godwin's curator insight, April 24, 6:06 AM

Insight as to what people like/do not like about the library.

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27 Things Your Teacher Librarian Does

27 Things Your Teacher Librarian Does | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

We love Teacher Librarians! This infographic is created by Mia MacMeekin.


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Learn more:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Infographic

 

Sharla Shults's curator insight, May 14, 10:23 PM

The Librarian...the most diversified teacher of all!

Christine Margocs's curator insight, June 5, 8:14 PM

Great for the library website!

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Working Together Is Working Smarter | Sustained Collaboration

Working Together Is Working Smarter | Sustained Collaboration | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

A new report released by the National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE) reveals that school librarians are highly involved leaders playing a critical role in their schools through consistent and sustained collaboration with other educators. Additionally, school librarians not only participate in but deliver professional development to peers, educators and staff in their schools.


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Teachers & teacher librarians collaborating to achieve curriculum goals has to be the 'smart' way.

Anne McLean's curator insight, April 10, 10:46 PM

Teacher Libraians should work with the Head Teachers of Teaching and Learning.  Unfortunately this does not happen in reality.

Dr. Laura Sheneman's curator insight, April 11, 11:34 AM

How do we get administrators to catch on to this?

Rita Godwin's curator insight, April 21, 8:07 AM

Informative infographic showing how collaboration with colleagues helps to advocate for the LMS's role in the school.

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Strong School Libraries Build Strong Students, created by the AASL Legislation

Strong School Libraries Build Strong Students, created by the AASL Legislation Committee, is freely available for download by members of the media and general public provided no alterations are made. Additional resources are also available.

 

Additional resources: http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/advocacy/AASL_infographic_resources.pdf

 

Infographic and additional resources: http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/advocacy/AASL_infographic.pdf

 


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Karen du Toit's curator insight, April 10, 7:28 AM

The importance of school libraries > Infographic, with additional resources!

whslmc's curator insight, April 10, 8:58 AM

The facts are in: School libraries positively effect learning!

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"How To Do Research" Game

"How To Do Research" Game | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
"How To Do Research" game is presented by Kentucky Virtual Library. It's designed for kids to learn how to do research independently with kids-friendly user experience. Did you know that you can ac...

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The visual stimulus is effective and the concept of it being a 'game' adds a sense of fun.

Betty Denise's comment, April 18, 11:12 AM
Modestement génial.
Vicki Hansen's curator insight, April 19, 8:14 AM

Engage students in learning through games!  My students love these kinds of activities.

Jennifer Hurley-Coughlin's curator insight, May 22, 12:14 PM

We should adapt this awesome organizer...

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10 Must Have Resources to Teach about Copyright and Fair Use

10 Must Have Resources to Teach about Copyright and Fair Use | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
Teaching students about copyright and digital citizenship has never been as pressingly important as it is now.Undoubtedly Internet has become a major source of information for students but this pool...

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Essential ethics!

Lourense Das's curator insight, April 2, 3:22 AM

Good list of resources to teach about copyright and fair use

Christine Harris-Smyth's curator insight, April 2, 5:25 AM

Good knowledge of copyright and fair use is a must-have for all commuinications professionals. You don't need to be an expert but you need a map of the neighbourhood.

Reuven Werber's curator insight, April 3, 5:21 AM

Help for teaching this important topic.

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Could there actually be one "C" to rule them all?!

Could there actually be one "C" to rule them all?! | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
Some describe four "Cs" of essential skills for this 21st century - traits such as: Critical thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity. Some list five or six "Cs." Five: Creativity, Co...

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Self CONTROL is the significant aspect!

"Control in the sense of ownership, investment and engagement, degree of agency and autonomy. Control to exercise choice. Control to pursue curiosity."

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Teachers’ Ultimate Guide to Using Videos

Teachers’ Ultimate Guide to Using Videos | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it

With one billion monthly users (and growing), YouTube's popularity is a pretty clear indication that video is a powerful medium. And kids' unrelenting fascination with videos is motivating many educators to find ways to leverage them for all kinds of purposes.


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Resource rich site to stimulate discussion and visual literacy practices and creation.

Karen Bonanno's curator insight, March 28, 1:19 AM

Valuable resources, including video links for all kinds of subjects — history, math, science, language arts, and more — and ideas on how to inspire students to use videos as a conduit to dig in, ask questions, and learn.

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5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn | MindShift

5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn | MindShift | Teaching through Libraries | Scoop.it
Jamie Nast/Flickr Helping students learn how to learn: That's what most educators strive for, and that's the goal of inquiry learning. That skill transfe

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The 'old' tools of communicating, reflecting and documenting.

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