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This has great potential for use in the classroom! 

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Google Reveals the Evolution of Our Planet in Timelapse Motion

Yesterday Google released a trove of timelapse images that offers, it believes, 'the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public.' Featuring a quarter-century of images taken from space by NASA and the U.S.
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A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 17 Awesome Google Chrome Extensions

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80 Interesting Ways To Use Google Forms In The Classroom

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80 Interesting Ways To Use Google Forms In The Classroom
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MapStory : Welcome!

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MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history.


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This one has a lot of potential! 

Guille Florian's curator insight, April 28, 5:25 AM

Excellent tool

Lois A Bolin, Ph.D.'s curator insight, April 28, 10:07 AM

The City of Naples WEB APP used a storyboard which tell the story of naples development via a map--- map story is similiar.  Should make us think how we need to get georgraphy back into schools integrated with history and ecnonmics.

Jasmin Rez's curator insight, April 29, 8:33 AM

via @LeadershipABC 

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Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author Network

Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author Network | The Browse | Scoop.it
A place to join a network of authors willing to Skype into classrooms to speak with teachers and children.
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A great resource to find authors who will Skype with students at school. I can't wait to use this! 

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Impact of Climate Change - Google Earth for Educators

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Visit this site to learn all the tips and tricks for using Google Earth as a teaching tool.
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Satellite images from Google Earth's archive are now being used to see the impact of climate change over time. This site offers some great instructional ideas, plans and free downloadable layers (kwl) files that can be used with Google Earth to create interactive presentations. Cool. 

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50 inspiring quotes about libraries and librarians - Ebook Friendly

50 inspiring quotes about libraries and librarians - Ebook Friendly | The Browse | Scoop.it
A list of the best quotes about libraries and librarians, together with quotes that you can share as images.

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This will come in hand! 

Dr. Laura Sheneman's curator insight, April 21, 8:48 AM

Just sent this out to my LMSs.  This is so true!  They all have a servant's heart.

Ann Vega's curator insight, April 21, 9:25 AM

Love This!

Amy Barr's curator insight, April 22, 4:59 PM

add qoutes to bookmarks

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Welcome · Digital Public Library of America

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So excited to use this! 

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Banned Books List Revealed

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NEW YORK -- Here's a list "Fifty Shades of Grey" was destined to make: The books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves. On Monday, E L James' multimillion selling erotic trilogy placed No.
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To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science | Budding Scientist, Scientific American Blog Network

To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science | Budding Scientist, Scientific American Blog Network | The Browse | Scoop.it
Guest Post by Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, teachers at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey

Women and girls are historically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, ...
Linda Dougherty's curator insight, April 20, 9:27 AM

Another reason to study curriculum maps for opportunities to suggest informational text/nonfiction readings.

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20 Cutting-Edge Library Services For Those With Special Needs | OEDb

20 Cutting-Edge Library Services For Those With Special Needs | OEDb | The Browse | Scoop.it
Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing ways libraries bring information, entertainment, and learning to patrons with special needs.
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Great list of adapative technology being used in school and public libraries. 

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In Light of Common Core, Seeking Ways to Circumvent Dewey - The Digital Shift

In Light of Common Core, Seeking Ways to Circumvent Dewey - The Digital Shift | The Browse | Scoop.it
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"School librarians remain deeply divided over Dewey, but for most, its staying power is a matter of practicality. While the system is flawed, a complete overhaul of all those call numbers and spine labels is simply impossible. And yet, given CC’s requirements around informational texts, it makes sense for us to consider whether or not our current classification system best serves students’ interests.. . "

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Internet Access for All: A New Program Targets Low-Income Students | MindShift

Internet Access for All: A New Program Targets Low-Income Students | MindShift | The Browse | Scoop.it
Getty Technology has often been called a democratizer in education, allowing students from all backgrounds to access the same resources and tools. Others
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Gamifying Student Engagement

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In her TED talk, "Gaming Can Make a Better World," author and researcher Jane McGonigal posits that in game worlds people are "motivated to do something that matters, inspired to collaborate, to coo
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Kids Comics List 2012 | it's yaytime!

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Great list!

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The Adventures of Library Girl: School Library Marketing 101: It's About Students Not Stuff.

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Pam Colburn Harland's comment, April 23, 4:55 PM
Great post! I especially like the part about setting goals... I want all of our goals to be "user-centered" goals!
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A Librarian Considers Persepolis | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

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Last month a Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) directive seemed to require that copies of Marjane Satrapi’s memoir Persepolis be removed from classrooms an...
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"Librarians have faith in readers, regardless of their age, to take what they need from texts. We work to find reasons to include materials in our libraries’ collections. A school librarian friend of mine, who has fought her own battles with censorship, told me, “Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if ,when one wants to raise that ugly word of ‘censor,’ he would first be required to state the positive sides of a read? Where it could be used? How it might benefit someone?”

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Games | The Science Game Center

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This is a useful site where science games are annotated and reviewed by users including eduactors and gamers. 

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Teaching with Google Earth

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Google Earth resources for the classroom
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Ignoring the Evidence: Another Decade of Decline for School Libraries | Canadian Education Association (CEA)

Ignoring the Evidence: Another Decade of Decline for School Libraries | Canadian Education Association (CEA) | The Browse | Scoop.it
Why doesn’t the research on school libraries resonate with educational policymakers and funding allocators? (Library: An interesting read on school libraries.

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Anu Ojaranta's curator insight, April 20, 2:29 AM

"Four decades of research from Canada, the U.S., and Australia indicates that well-staffed, well-stocked, and well-used school libraries are correlated with increases in student achievement on the order of 4 percent to 20 percent, as measured on student performance on standardized tests, overall school performance, and student performance in reading comprehension and in academic subjects.[1] Other studies have shown improvements in students’ attitudes towards reading and in the collaborative nature of school culture.[2]"

 

Desicions are obviously made blindfolded... Very sad reading, still hoping that the research results would in the long run make a difference. We need to be more vigorous in advocating! Greeyings, Anu

Elizabeth Hutchinson's comment, April 20, 3:27 AM
We need to keep fighting and collating evidence. We are necessary so we need to shout louder!
Joyce Valenza's curator insight, April 20, 8:46 PM

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Geocube

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"Geocube is an attractive online resource about Geography. Geocube is based on the principle of the Rubik Cube with six faces and 54 topics. It is a virtual and easily accessible website which is available online for free. Move the Geocube around with your mouse and explore the faces and topics.Geocube provides an accessible way to read, see and watch what Geography is and geographers do."


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Seth Dixon's curator insight, April 13, 4:34 PM

This interactive resource is worth exploring and letting students explore it at home or within a computer lab environment.  Geocube isn't just a single random link; Geocube is a portal to numerous topics, regions and themes that allows the user to explore what geography is without being constrained to do so in a linear fashion.  Having been voted by the American Association of School Librarians as one of the "Top 25 websites for Teaching and Learning," Geocube comes highly recommended, and rightfully so.  This is a must-see as it puts the world of geography at your fingertips. 


Tags: geography education. edtech, unit 1 GeoPrinciples.

Maricarmen Husson's curator insight, April 14, 4:39 PM

Geografhy education I¡ve  recently open it

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I've recentli open it, is a good resourse for students and every peoples who likes geography
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State Of America's School Libraries

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Providing our children with the best educational resources and empowering all our children to access, evaluate, and use information for academic and personal learning - this is the critical mission of school libraries and librarians.
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Mind the Gap: Gender & Education [Free Online Game]

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Imagine a young girl starting school in the North African country of Mauritania. What are the chances she will continue to secondary school or even universi
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Very good. I love the use of data and statistics in this online learning tool. 

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ccMixter - Welcome to ccMixter

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ccMixter is a community remix site sponsored by ArtisTech Media, created by Creative Commons
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This site is the real-deal for remxing audio using the Creative Commons license. Created by ArsTechnica Media for exploring and sharing. 

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Skype Announces Free Group Video Calling for Teachers | SXSWEdu - The Digital Shift

Skype Announces Free Group Video Calling for Teachers | SXSWEdu - The Digital Shift | The Browse | Scoop.it
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Great news! Skype's Group Video Calling can be used free of charge for K-12 educators. 

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