Check out the Unquiet Librarian’s pageflakes page for the inaguration. Nice work Buffy!
This screencast is still a work in progress, but you can see the latest feeds from our favorite bookmarks, news outlets, and TWITTER! Stay tuned as I add more resources in the next few days!
Beth Gallaway, aka Information Goddess, shared her recent presentation on Board Gaming and the AASL Standards on SlideShare. See her blog post for links to her handouts for these sessions. Sounds like it was a fun session.
Beth is also teaching an online course in February: Get Your Game On, Online! That sounds like fun too!
Wikispaces has a fresh new look to their site and has added some new features. And they’re still giving away ad-free wikis to educators.
New:
And though this isn’t new, it’s worth noting that Wikispaces makes it incredibly easy to incorporate content from other web services, including:
Check out Akoha, a game based on the idea of ‘paying it forward’ – do something nice for someone else and ask them to do the same. Akoha uses cards with good deed missions printed on them, you pass them on and can follow their path through the world on the Akoha site.
In addition to being fun and making you feel good, Akoha has partnered wtih Room to Read to sponsor the construction of a school library in Nepal.
What if playing a game could make the world a better place? Playing Akoha missions can be fun and meaningful. As part of our play testing phase, we’ve adopted a school project with Room to Read. (more…)
I’m looking forward to meeting with 20 teachers at the Ft. Plain (NY) Central School on Saturday Dec 6. At 8 am! On a Saturday! Wow, you guys are dedicated souls.
This is going to be a 2.0 “tech camp” training day. We’ll be covering social bookmarking with delicious.com. We’ll use iGoogle to create a personal web portal and as a place to pull together RSS feeds from blogs, news sources, databases, delicious and more. iGoogle is a fun and useful tool that students can use to gather research material. (more…)
New York State’s School Library Systems are taking quite a financial hit in the current economic crisis. There will be cuts to many of the important support and training services they provide to school library media centers throughout the state.
I received this from Linda Fox of the Capital Region BOCES SLS today:
The Capital Region BOCES School Library System joins all other SLS’s in the state in concern about the state’s fiscal crisis. At this writing, funding for systems is at a standstill. Part of the funding has been received, but there is no indication that the remainder of the approved funding will arrive any time soon. This has a direct impact on staffing and programs. (more…)
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