The Slothful Cybrarian

Free ebooks for parent from Barnardos on developing your child's literacy skills.

Here’s the latest installment in my series on The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly. As you may remember, in order to make it on this list, the web tool has to:

* be easily accessible to English Language Learners and/or non-tech savvy computer users.

* allow people to create engaging content within minutes.

* host the user’s creation on the site itself indefinitely, and allow a direct link to be able to be posted on a student or teacher’s website/blog to it (or let it be embedded).

* provide some language-learning opportunity (for example, students can write about their creations).

* not require any registration.

Parents of minor children have a special relationship with libraries. Most believe libraries are very important for their children and provide extra resources that are not available at home.

When doing homework, many students turn to the same websites as they do when they're surfing the web under other circumstances.

Four of the top ten most-cited websites on Easybib, a site used to create more than 500 million citations, are user-generated sites like Wikipedia and YouTube.

Wikipedia's most common sources of information are news outlets, books, and academic archives. So if your teacher has banned Wikipedia, just follow Wikipedia's trail of sources to get to the good stuff. Oh, and don't tell them we sent you.

Here's a handy visual step-by-step guide to choosing the best digital content for a blended learning environment. Useful for all skill levels!

Assessing Critical Thinking in Middle and High Schools: Meeting the Common Core, by Rebecca Stobaugh is a practical, very effective resource for midd...

Why Use Scoopit? At the end of the day, you’re “doing” a lot actually simply by using a technology like scoopit.

The term "Information and Communications Technology" (ICT) has referred to the curriculum subject taught in UK schools. As advocated on this blog, it is now being changed to "Computing". I laid out...

Bookshelves are designed in our homes, schools, offices, libraries and companies to keep books, office files and other documents at place. Today, bookshelf is not just a piece of furniture rather it has also taken a form of art.

Meograph helps you easily create, share, and playback beautiful stories in context of Where and When.

 I researched (and procrastinated) I started developing a running list of different ways Pinterest could be tied back in with Bloom’s taxonomy, which is my go-to for aligning technology tools with educational standards.

What are the stages of technology in learning, and how can these stages be used as a framework for improving learning?

Med Kharback:

I just got this poster from a fellow teacher featuring the 6 thinking skills as outlined in the revised taxonomy. As you probably know, Blooms taxonomy that was first created in the 1950s has been revised by Krathwohl and there are two  main changes that appeared in this revised taxonomy: the first one is semantic in that nouns are now being replaced with verbs; and the second change relates to the order of these thinking skills. In the old taxonomy, Bloom highlighted the importance of evaluating and therefore placed it at the top of the  thinking continuum, but for Krathwohl Creating is the highest order thinking skill.

“A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.” (Wikipedia) I’ve had such a lot of interest in the new book...

The screen recorders available out there have been listed by us below. You’re probably here because you want to prepare a presentation for the boardroom or class.