Jul 16th, 2009
by pollyalida.
Buffy Hamilton (The Unquiet Librarian) posted some great examples today of how elementary schools are using social media to communicate with faculty, parents & students. Read her post! I wanted to highlight two of her examples from Christina Bentheim at the Dickens Elementary School in North Las Vegas, NV. 1: A wiki page chock full [...]
Jan 6th, 2009
by pollyalida.
digitalinspiration has a great post today listing ways to add all sorts of content to your web pages – videos, audio, calendars, presentations, and more. Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more. And while [...]
Sep 30th, 2008
by pollyalida.
This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of teaching a workshop for school librarians in the Dutchess & Ulster BOCES School Library Systems. 14 librarians gave up the weekend to be locked away in a training room! We had some great discussions about technology and schools. And everyone went away having learned about some [...]
Sep 22nd, 2008
by pollyalida.
This is way more fun than the vocabulary flash cards we used back in 3rd grade. Wordia is a collection of short videos submitted that explain the meaning of a word. Anyone can submit a video, some are casual, some goofy, some are a bit serious. But most of the ones I watched really did [...]
Sep 10th, 2008
by pollyalida.
Earlier tonight I received a note about a live webcast discussing the PBS multimedia Election 2008 curriculum and the Web 2.0 tools and resources that are part of the curriculum. Wow, I’m so glad I clicked through to it, even though I got there a bit late. The material they’ve created is just terrific! Access, [...]
Aug 18th, 2008
by pollyalida.
In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year. That got me thinking about and looking for other back to school ideas for this fun tool. Like all the tools at bighugelabs, [...]