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Top Ten Tips for Facilitating an Effective Primary Source Analysis | Teaching with the Library of Congress A blog post at “Teaching with the Library of Congress” on 2011-09-13.
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Visualising China: explore historical photos of China Visualising China is a JISC-funded project to allow users to explore and enhance more than 8000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950.
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Libraries as makerspaces Slides from a presentation by Kristin Fontichiaro
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YALSA » Connect, Create, Collaborate: Sparking the Maker Movement at your Library A makerspace (sometimes also referred to as a hackerspace, hackspace or hacklab) is a location where people with common interests, often in computers, technology, science, electronics, engineering, and/or digital or electronic art, can connect, create and collaborate. Makerspaces can be viewed as open community labs incorporating elements of machine shops, workshops, and/or studios where hackers and makers come together to share resources and knowledge to build and make things. Many libraries have embraced the maker movement and have incorporated makerspaces into the services they provide.
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Creating infographics | screencast tutorial on Vimeo From School library Journal Plus “You can create infographics – visual representations of data – from scratch using free web tools. LIbrary consultant and educator Linda W. Braun takes you step by step through making your own infographic using easel.ly and info.gram.”
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Baker & Taylor Partners with Findaway World to Offer Library Audiobooks – The Digital Shift
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Librarians Use Social Networking Professionally More than Teachers and Principals, According to Report – The Digital Shift ”The study provides information about educators’ favorite sites by category and reveals social networking patterns by age and frequency of use. It also reveals educators’ concerns about privacy and provides information about school district technology access policies for students and teachers.”
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Free Stock Photos – Foter ”Foter.com allows you to search, manage and add free stock photos to blogs, forums, websites and other online media. We host over 190 million free Creative Commons images from many online sources and the entire system is also available as a WordPress plugin for seamless use within the WordPress platform.”
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Assessment and Rubrics – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything Created by Kathy Schrock, this is an excellent site if you want rubrics to evaluate student work
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Small Demons – Welcome to the Storyverse A website which tracks characters, locations, references through various books. Allows you to connect all the details in books.
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Digital Citizenship| The Committed Sardine How do we teach Global Digital Citizenship, a fluency that is critical at all levels of education? The author identifies four aspects of this that he thinks are critical: Clarity and rationale; Understanding and Purpose; Monitoring and consequences; Individual and community involvement.
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iPad App Evaluation for the Classroom Langwitches offers various ways to evaluate apps for educational use. Offers excellent advice that is colorful and visual.
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A Must Have App Evaluation Rubric for Teachers ”You are responsible for your students learning and this responsibility grows riskier when learning becomes digitally based.This is particularly the case when integrating apps into your teaching. It is true that one simple Google search will generate tons of apps for you to choose from , but does it stop just here ? How about after you find the apps, do you know how to evaluate their pedagogic implications ? Are they educationally valid ? Do they target skills you want your students to work on ? Are they flexible enough to let students learn in different settings ? Are they student friendly ?”
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Can E-Books and Libraries Coexist? An infographic from Mashable that examines the question ”Will e-readers really edge out print books?”
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Learn English With Songs – Stand by Me, By Playing For Change ”English Listening activity for Elementary English language students and young learners at all levels of English. Watch the video and then use the words in the word box to complete the gaps in the lyrics. part of a free online series of lessons for English language students, designed to practise your English at the same time as learning about music and popular culture in English speaking countries”
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Student Blogs: Learning to Write in Digital Spaces | Langwitches Blog Some good advice for student blogging
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Free grammar check at GrammarBase.com A free proof reader, grammar checker. Just copy and paste in your text and get a detailed report and some advice on ho to improve your writing.
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Infographic: History’s most influential people, ranked by Wikipedia reach (Wired UK)
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