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How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

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 you’re there, [...]

School Library Workshop

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 [...]

Wordia – a video dictionary

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 [...]

2.0 in the Classroom & PBS Election Curriculum

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, Analyze, [...]

A Dozen Back to School Uses for Big Huge Labs Trading Card Generator

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, this [...]

Free Mini READ Poster Generator from ALA

Head on over to the ALA READ Mini Poster Generator and have some fun! Fun project for everyone on the staff, kids, patrons, trustees, students…. Make posters, buttons, badges and more.  Get creative and have some fun.
If you post your photo to flickr, make sure you add it to the READ Poster photo pool For [...]