Useful links (Weekly)

  by  Jeannine St. Amand  The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory at Harvard Law School LibraryCloud aggregates collection and usage metadata from a number of different libraries and feed them into Shelflife, a sample front end for how this kind of information might be viewed and used by library patrons. Main features of the interface include: *use of the [...]

Useful sites

  by  Colette Cassinelli  From the Library of Congress: “Finding E-books: A Guide” « INFOdocket http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/unesco-ict-competency-framework-for-teachers-version-20 An updated publication designed to help training teachers on ways to optimize the use of information and communication technologies in the classroom has been launched early November 2011 by UNESCO in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Learning, Intel and Microsoft. The ICT [...]

TinEye – image search engine

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It allows you to upload an image from your computer and search the Internet for it. You can also paste a image URL and find other places that the image exist on the Internet. The interesting thing about this tool is that you don’t have to remember, or have, the same file [...]

Imagecodr – Attributing your CC Flickr images

My colleague Tania Sheko sent me a useful link this week. It was for a tool called ImageCodr. At the moment it only works with Flickr images but it is a great start. I have been in Year 7 classes over the past few weeks. I have been showing them some of the ways they [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

Scootle – Home Scootle is a website which is a way of locating any of the 8000 items/learning objects in the Learning Federation for K-12. It just makes it easier to locate, download and manage required items, and a means to access this bank of resources. You can manage the resources into folders of your own, [...]