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I have lots of school library media specialists in the technology classes I teach. They are often the ones in the forefront of using technology in their school districts and come up with great ideas for how technology can support student learning and help teachers do their jobs better. At the [...]
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Technology to the students!!
Teacher Training Videos
I love it when I find a great new resource, only to realize that I bookmarked it in delicious account months ago! So much for my memory. In any case, here’s one of those resources that I re-learned about today. Teacher Training Videos “were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology [...]
Internet @ Schools – Curriki session
I haven’t had time to blog all the sessions I’ve been to. Here’s one from the School Libraries track. Internet @ Schools East
Tuesday – Track S201 -Open Educational Resources: Join the Global Education Community
Curriki – Free, collaborative, open content, creative commons licensed curriculum sharing wiki http://www.curriki.org/
Why? Traditional textbooks are hard to update, out of [...]
Teachers & Students & Facebook?
If you’re a teacher/librarian, do you friend your students on Facebook? MySpace? twitter? flickr? Do you communicate via email? IM? Texting? Is Facebook different than other tools for some reason? As educators do we have the responsibility for teaching smart/safe online behavior in ALL possible contexts? Does setting up a separate account for your teacher [...]
Scratch: Imagine, Program, Share
Scratch, from the MIT Media Lab, is a programming tool “designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.”
This demo video is all kinds of wonderful. [...]
Student book reviews linked to catalog
In a class last week, Jenny Brown and Silvia Lilly from the Bethlehem HS showed us how they were linking their students’ book reviews to their catalog. They save the reviews on their school server and then link in the 856 field. Pretty nifty simple trick. Try searching for Kite Runner.
