http://blog.pafa.net Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:27:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/485 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 ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/479 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: Create user accounts on your own: If you have an educator account, you can now enter up to 100 usernames (with or without email addresses) and Wikispaces ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/472 Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love flickr. I love how shared photos & conversations around those photos help me connect with friends, family and colleagues. And how photos can bring to life, places I may never get to see in person. And thanks to the generosity of ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/466 I love reading those “10 things you probably didn’t know about me” sort of lists about friends and colleagues.  But I always have a hard time coming up with my own lists.  This '99 things' list takes care of that.  I saw this  on several other blogs and thought it ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/463 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 ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/458 Do you have a Wii Bowling program for Seniors? Check out this tournment!Any library with a Wii Bowling for Seniors program is invited to participate in the Kent Public Library Holiday Classic Wii Bowling Tournament.  Your library can enter as many four member teams as you have.  Each four member ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/453 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 ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/448 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 ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/446 Great presentation from the TED Talks. Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play Talked about the need to engage in: playful exploration playful building playful roleplaying Started with an exercise - asked the audience to take 30 seconds to draw a picture of the person sitting next to them. The audience was full of ... http://blog.pafa.net/archives/434