The New York State Board of Regents and the Commissioner of Education are seeking an experienced and innovative individual to serve as Assistant Commissioner for Libraries and State Librarian. The incumbent will lead the operations of the New York State (NYS) Library, a component of the Office of Cultural Education (www.oce.nysed.gov) within the New [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
When Web Time Is Playtime
An interesting article in the NYTimes tech section today detailing some of the many online social/game/play services for kids. Spore (mentioned towards the end of the article) is due out in September sounds like great fun and educational too.
Spore, from Maxis, a division of Electronic Arts, is more a game than an online service, [...]
GoGooligans revisited
After I posted some concerns about GoGooligans last week, the developer of GoGooligans responded to these and those expressed by others over at flickr.
As a result, he’s deleted the “hey kid - click this button when your parents or teachers aren’t looking” feature. Thank you!!
And he’s updated some search terms and phrases to unblock phrases [...]
Free Screen Shot software - Giveaway of the Day
I haven’t downloaded this software yet, plan to try it later today. I’ve been using the SnagIt for screen captures for years and also use FireShot (free plugin for Firefox). But this TNT Screen Capture may have some additional features worth checking out. And it’s free for today only.
Create screen shots that look better than [...]
Voting time in the StoryTubes video contest
Congratulations to the seven children in New York State who submitted videos about their favorite books to the nationwide StoryTubes video contest.
All the New York State entries have been posted to the NYS Summer Reading Program web site.
To enter the contest, children in grades 1 to 6 made short videos about their favorite books. And [...]
Web 2.0 Workshop Day at Nioga
We’re having a great and productive day here at Nioga Library System in Lockport NY. We’ve spent the morning sharing ideas about using 2.0 tools in libraries. Everyone shared what they’ve been doing in their libraries, their successes and challenges. Suggestions and ideas have been flying like rapid fire. Lots of the ideas are [...]
