Useful links

   by  shareski 

• Infographics & Information Literacy | Transliteracy Librarian “Presenting information, data, or library instruction content, in appealing and innovative formats offers librarians opportunities to engage students and library users in services, resources, and instruction. The infographic is a visual representation of information, data, or ideas through images.” Useful discussion, with links, and a great example of an infographic about the info lit stages.

• Transliteracy Librarian | Literacies for the 21st Century Academic Librarian Blog of librarian and info sci specialist.

• Google can’t compete with a skilled librarian steeped in information technology – chicagotribune.com

• 20 Creative Uses Of Lego You Need To See “The world will probably never get tired of the wonders of Lego, even if it definitely hurts when you step on one. Painful feet massage aside, the popular brick toy continues to astound us with the many things we can create with it, from mega structures to constructing movie scenes.”

• 26 Books for Kids Who Love Harry Potter – Imagination Soup Imagination Soup Fun Learning and Play Activities for Kids

• A NEW Google Drive CHEAT SHEET – Shake Up Learning Google Drive has changed so this cheat sheet was updated. The drive window was divided into four sections to make it easier to read. The keyboard shortcuts are in a separate document so you can download them as well.

• 11 Things You Need to Know About the Redesigned Google Drive | Google Gooru Google Drive has a new look and there are quite few changes. Many changes were design and user-experience improvements, Google also added some new functions. “There is a video here that offers a quick walk through, along with a list of some of our favorite changes!”

• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Popular Ed Tech Tools That Were Updated This Summer “An annotated list of ten popular services that were updated over June/July 2014. “

• 19 Reading Response Questions For Self-Guided Response – “A post that looks at reading reflection prompts and forms. A few different ideas for assisting students to get “points” in any reading program. They are a student-centered approach it takes, and could be useful across content areas. ” It’s primarily about the craft of writing and elements of style, but 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and several others would work after reading almost anything.”

• #DLTV2014 Transforming Classrooms with Social and Connected Learning | Miss Spink on Tech “A presentation from the 2014 Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria conference-creating new connections by Bec Spink”

• Fantastic Resources for Teaching Digital Citizenship Education in Your Classroom – EdTechReview™ (ETR) A useful range of resources for teaching digital citizenship education in the classroom.

• Turning Students into Readers, Writers, and Thinkers | ASCD Inservice ” Regie Routman believes that sustained time for reading and writing meaningful text must be our first priority to turn students into readers, writers, and thinkers. In her latest ASCD book, Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success, Routman shares best practices that can lead to better engagement and achievement in reading and writing for all students, including second-language and struggling learners. One way to engage students in informational, complex text is to demonstrate close reading, also known as analytic reading.  In the following excerpt, Routman shares her thoughts on being a “reading role model” and why close reading is a necessity for students’ understanding.”

• A Good Tool to Annotate and Create Interactive Videos for Your Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ThingLink is a web tool for creating interactive images now it offers a video option. .The post offers a guide to using ThingLink to create a video. “ThingLink video allows you to easily add interactive elements to public videos on YouTube. This is a great way to add rich layers of information and resources to videos you share with students. You can for instance add links to websites where students can read more on the topic of the video, or add links to other videos. You can also annotate your video by adding text and hyperlinks. There is a video to watch to learn more about ThingLink. “

• Educational Technology and Copyright Law | Teach Amazing! post that discusses how you might go about explaining copyright to your students.

• Teaching Cybersafety – Budd:e Basics – A Cybersmart Lesson | Australian Curriculum Lessons “From Australian Curriculum lessons site. In this lesson students recognise that there are serious security issues associated with the online world. They recognise that there are strategies for being secure and responsible online, just as there are for being safe and secure offline. Students learn that cybersecurity is the responsibility of every ICT user and will be able to Identify four basic cybersecurity strategies: a firewall, anti-virus software, keeping security software up-to-date, and email filtering.”

• Extending on Ideas in Writing – Action Chains Lesson | Australian Curriculum Lessons Lesson plans for years 2-5

• 17 Creative Children’s Libraries | HarperCollins Children’s Books A post that celebrates some of the most creative children’s libraries around the world.Great photos.

• 35 Things To Do With All Those Books A photographic list showing some interesting ideas for storing your books

• Ten Useful Websites for Techie Librarians | INALJ An interesting and eclectic list of sites. Some I know about and recommend and others sound interesting and worth a look.

• Give eBooks a Physical Presence: Sacramento PL Shares Marketing Ideas | OverDrive Blogs Many are askin “What’s the best way promote the library’s digital collection to patrons visiting the physical branch?   This post shares some ideas used by staff members at Sacramento Public Library who came up with a clever way to connect its physical and digital collections. ” The Electronic resources librarian Amy Calhoun explains how Sacramento PL has improved discovery of eBook titles among patrons visiting the library branches”

• Our 3 Favorite Free Online Image Editors For Education – The Edublogger

• How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing Useful advice

• 10 things classroom teachers need to know about modern school librarians | Trust me, I’m a librarian

• This Is What a Student-Designed School Looks Like | MindShift

• AskHistorians reddit’s AskHistorians space ” aims to provide serious, academic-level answers to questions about history.” They monitor the site regularly “We have written these rules to support this aim and maintain the high standard of discussion this subreddit has become known for. AskHistorians is actively moderated. Moderators regularly take action to enforce these rules.”

• Download our Social Media Citations Handouts – EasyBib “The exploding popularity of YouTube videos to the infamous tweets that started a revolution, students are inundated with these new media formats. But do they know how to use and accurately cite social media?” Some downloadable sheets from EasyBib.

• 10 Tips to Design Effective Presentations ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Good advice and simple to undertake. Should be read by more presenters.

• Learn Classroom Writing Tips with Google Docs More simple ways to make the best use of Google docs.

• Reading Through Someone Else’s Eyes : The New Yorker

• Promoting Reading With eBooks & OverDrive | StAC e-Learning Stories A discussion about the implementation of e-books in the St. Andrew’s College libraries. It follows the journey that they took to arrive at the solution that suited them. Also of interest is the section on how they go about promoting their e-book.

• 4 Classroom Posters Supporting Digital Citizenship With Our Students | StAC e-Learning Stories “A number of classroom posters prepared by St Andrew’s College (NZ) to help students and teachers discuss the concepts of Digital Citizenship and appropriate usage of devices in the classroom”

• How the Maker Movement Is Moving into Classrooms | Edutopia A good post in which Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) discusses the ways education can utilise the interest in, and strengths of, the maker movement. “A new generation of inventors is surfing the tide of the Maker movement. These classrooms emphasize making, inventing, and creativity. Let’s look at the terminology and trends that will help educators understand the Maker movement.”

• Content Curation Done Right | Piktochart Infographic Editor An infographic that offers a good basic explanation about how to go about content curation.

• How Does Multitasking Change the Way Kids Learn? | MindShift “Using tech tools that students are familiar with and already enjoy using is attractive to educators, but getting students focused on the project at hand might be more difficult because of it” Interesting discussion and results of some research about the value of /success with multitasking. Steps you can take to aid focus also looked at.

• How Tablets Can Enable Meaningful Connections for Students and Teachers | MindShift

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