Useful Links - Weekly

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• http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2012_OITP_digilitreport_1_22_13.pdf “School libraries always have been interdisciplinary spaces deeply connected to the curriculum, instrumental in developing students’ research and information literacy skills, and committed to creating an environment of free reading that supports lifelong learning and curiosity. These traditional roles and strengths are increasingly critical as society faces a deluge of digital information, and the lines between content user and content creator are blurred and even actively deconstructed.”

• » New Report Highlights School Libraries’ Promotion of Digital Literacy AASL Blog Discussion about report from the American Library Association’s Digital Literacy Task Force, led by the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy in Washington. They released (in Jan) “Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy,” a report highlighting support for digital literacy in the context of school, public, and academic libraries.

• Book Spine Poetry Contest! « The LibraryThing Blog An outline of the LibraryThing bookspine poetry contest 2012

• 2012 Book Spine Poem Gallery School library journal 2012 post linking to poem

• http://penguineducation.wordpress.com/ Penguin Australia’s blog for teachers, librarians and educators – bringing you professional development opportunities, book reviews, resources, guest bloggers, book trailers and much more

• 101 Blogs About Schools, Books, & Libraries 100 blogs about school libraries, educational thinking and books

• The Results Are In and They Aren’t Good | Library Marketing 1st in a series of articles by Nancy Dowd examining results from survey. This marketing survey’s purpose was to gain information about how public libraries market themselves, the effectiveness of marketing initiatives undertaken by the library, and the resulting engagement within their communities

• WebSlides – Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows… Webslides allows users to easily and instantly convert their bookmarks and feeds and present them as live web pages in an interactive slideshow format complete with the full content pages, links, and comments. It enables a new way to easily create and share unique presentations based on web content and user annotations.

• Games Support Multiple Learning Styles | Edutopia ” align them to games”

• 5 Steps To Make You A Better Researcher – Edudemic  From Edudemic “Research involves a lot of information and data which have to be easily and efficiently managed under tight deadlines and time restraints. The following steps will offer you a bit of insight into how you can become a better researcher using some simple web tools like mind maps and bookmarklets.”

• Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Flipping Your Classroom #edchat « syded Some good tips on how to change classroom focus. A good checklist to better better prepare teachers and avoid pitfalls.

• Get Noticed: 3 Customizable Infographic Templates  4 templates to help build your  infographic

• Infographic: How to Implement Blended Learning – Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff - From the fifth white paper in the DLN Smart Series, “Blended Learning Implementation Guide,” which explores blended learning as a phase change with a goal of accelerating learning toward college and career readiness.

• Top 10 Online Communities for Educators of Game-Based Learning

• Nearpod App – Android Nearpod is available in an Android version as well as iPad, and allows teachers share and control content (including slideshows, videos, and web pages) with students in real-time. Users simply create a presentation from scratch or using PowerPoint, and they can see students marking up an image or answering a question in real time.

• Educational Technology Guy: NearPod – create and share lessons on iPads in classroom – free  Post explaining how Nearpod can be used. Nearpod is available in an Android version as well as iPad, and allows teachers share and control content (including slideshows, videos, and web pages) with students in real-time.

• Finding the Right Tech Tools Is Easy, If You Know Where to Look — THE Journal

• papertigers | interviews | Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor Interview about their writing and collaboration (Oct 32003)

• 25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos 25 sites are listed and reviewed. Most of those mentioned are free.  are

• Easel.ly Makes Infographics Easy and Beautiful – 10,000 Words Infographics are a great way to get information across in a visual way. They are also well received by many students. Easel.ly is a tool, Still in Beta at the moment, that seeks to make the creation of an infographic easier.

• easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online ” Easel.ly – an infographics development platform. Users can select from a set of “vhemes” — fully developed and color-coordinated themes than can be edited to suit information — or simply create their own from scratch using Easel.ly’s database of shapes and icons. The result is a comprehensive and visually pleasing infographic that looks professional.” Beta at present

• NCEE » Global Perspectives: How do we prepare students for a world we cannot imagine? ”An interview with Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London, on his paper entitled Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gap Worldwide, published last year at the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria.” How do we as teachers help students develop their abilities to get the best out of themselves? Develop environments that help students learn best? t

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