Useful links (Weekly)

  by  gcouros 

• Canada | BiS A number of Canadian public libraries are pioneering a new service delivery model, which emphasizes collaborative service development and delivery, with library staff and the communities the library serves. Through this community-led service framework, library staff work with communities to understand their needs and deliver services that meet those needs, often devoting significant time outside the library walls. This article highlights two Canadian urban libraries which have embraced the community-led service approach, in order to remain relevant in our ever-changing environment.

• Mobile Apps: Implications for Libraries « Dysart & Jones From the NYPL’s “Engaging Communitities, Promoting Learning” conferenceon the current state of mobile, and encouraged them to consider the implications for libraries.

• On Pinterest | What I Learned Today… Blog post from @nengard. Pinterest (& other social media tools) & fair use. Pinterest does one thing and does that one thing very well – it’s an image sharing/bookmarking tool.

• ALA President Molly Raphael releases report on e-book talks with e-book distributors | American Libraries Magazine A report, released by American Library Association (ALA) President Molly Raphael, regarding meetings with e-book distributors during the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference, March 13 – 17.

• What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you A tool to assist with find something you might like to read based on another book you have enjoyed. Not fool-proof but offers a starting point. Easy to use: “Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers’ favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.”

• APA Referencing Style Guide (6th edition) The University of Waikato Library’s APA reference style online guide 6th edition 2012. Includes up-to-date reference guides for images and figures

• Thanks to Amazon, Android Could Overtake iPad by 2016 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com Cheap Android tablets, namely from Amazon, could boost Android tablet sales numbers past the current dominating force known as the iPad, according to research firm IDC.

• Academic Literacy Academic Literacy is a resource site for Bachelor of Education students at the University of New England.

• Beginner’s Guide to Transliteracy « Libraries and Transliteracy

• 20 Ways Libraries Are Using Pinterest Right Now | Edudemic Good article with lots of great ideas/suggestions for using Pinterest

• Education Cartoons | Randy Glasbergen – Today’s Cartoon Cartoons About Education Topics by Randy Glasbergen.

• Survive and Thrive! An Advocacy Toolkit for School Librarians ”In order to better communicate to our community members what “21st century skills” are all about, we created a brand or “taglines” for the 21st century skills of the Colorado Academic Standards. On this site, you will find message templates (sample e-mails, letters, newsletter blurbs, brochures, and even videos) containing these taglines and targeting specific stakeholder audiences in order to promote school librarians as 21st century skills experts.”

• numberphile’s Channel – YouTube Numberphile is n interesting YouTube channel about fun number facts. There are currently thirty-three videos in the Numberphile collection. The videos cover things like 998,001 and its Mysterious Recurring Decimals, Pi and Bouncing Balls, and 1 and Prime Numbers.

• The Innovative Educator: Top 10 Technology Blogs for Education

• Kindle Authors Who Lend Books In Library See 26% Higher Sales – eBookNewser

• 20 free tools to evaluate social media | Articles Article by By Dirk Singer about free tools that are not for measurement, but instead evaluation. They will give you some form of meaningful data to use in reports

• Education Nation 2011: 7 Tips For Using Social Media in Your Classroom A post discussing how teachers can use social media (eg. social networks and microblogging platforms.) to meet students on their own turf and provide an engaging avenue to learning. Several lesson ideas are explored.

• At One School, iPods Help Improve Reading Scores — THE Journal ”After noticing an uptick in ELL and other students with below average reading scores at his school, Skip Johnson, principal at El Crystal Elementary in San Bruno, CA, created a forward-thinking reading program pairing iPods and print books that has helped to successfully boost reading comprehension scores among non proficient readers”

• How To Cite A Tweet In Academic Papers | Edudemic Post on edudemic about citing a tweet woith comments: “The Modern Language Association (MLA, yes that MLA format) just released its official usage for citing tweets in academic papers.”

• How Are Wikis Really Being Used in the K-12 Classroom? ”Social media usage at the K-12 level has exploded over recent years, with some 40% of teachers saying they use blogs or wikis in the classroom. But what does wiki usage in the K-12 classroom really look like? How are teachers and students using them? And are these online learning opportunities equitably distributed across different socioeconomic populations?”

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.