Social Media posting – infographic to download plus useful links

In keeping with some of the discussions this week I was very interested in the post What do I post where? by Sylvia Rosenthal Tolesano (@Langwitches).

It was a great visual representation that I think would help explain social media to a number of the staff at our school.

Sylvia is a leading teacher in the digital educational world and over the past few years have found the posts and articles she writes for her own and other blogs inspirational. She is also a great collaborator and has made this poster available as a download for others to use.

• How to Create Your Own Online Course: 100 Tools, Guides, and Resources | Best Universities  A long list of reviews and references to sites, best practices and tools  for creating content. Also offers tips for students and teachers as they relate to online teaching and learning.
• Copyscape Plagiarism Checker – Duplicate Content Detection Software The free version of this content checker works by seeking out duplicate pages, so it won’t help you much before publishing, but it can help if you need a quick take on what you have already published. Premium versions include copy searches and duplicate alerts.

• Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Plagiarism The site shows students what plagiarism is and how to avoid accidentally plagiarizing someone’s work.

• Plagiarism Checker – Free Online Software For Plagiarism Detection The website allows you to check copy by either pasting it or uploading a .txt file, then compares it sentence by sentence with Google, Yahoo or MSN search. It works quickly and correctly spotted our duplicate partner article–as well as several unauthorized reprints–but lower on the results page were many articles matching any of the words, not the specific phrases. Since it breaks down the article into sentences for you, it’s much faster than using a search engine on your own. Available in English only.

• Plagiarism Checker Free Online – Plagiarisma This content checker is our top pick for language support and versatility. Sign up for free with your Facebook account and you can paste in text, check a url or upload files in 190 languages. Aside from checking the web, Plagiarisma can also delve into Google Scholar for articles, patents, legal opinions and journals as well as Google Books.

• Sqpad – Easily save and search for notes

• The Intersection of Digital Literacy and Social Media — Campus Technology

  “As educators look for new ways to teach digital literacy or the use of digital technology to find, organize, comprehend, evaluate, and create information, some are turning to social media to help advance the concept in the college classroom. BUT…..colleges leveraging social media to improve digital literacy must focus on students’ current use of social media and then find ways to interface those activities with the curriculum.”

• Solvemall.com – crosswords online A good collection of online crossword puzzles to help improve your English.There are many different levels from beginner with pictures to more advanced.

• There is No Set of Skills for Transliteracy « Libraries and Transliteracy

• Information Literacy: Building Blocks of Research: Overview A good overview by Debbie Abilock

• PresentationTube Recorder PresentationTube Recorder uses a simple and straight forward technique to capture your own PowerPoint presentations from the comfort of your home or office, and without the need to have Internet connection while recording. PresentationTube provides a FREE version and FULL version of PresentationTube Recorder.

• Unused Words – Discover a new word every day Although it is called ‘Unused words’, many of the words are still in use. The site also gives some interesting information about the history and origin of the words as well.

• Beautiful-Libraries.com Home

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/Social+Media+Education.png Infographic – Pros and cons of social media in education

• What NOT to include in your social media policy A few salient points to remember

• Half an Hour: New Forms of Assessment: measuring what you contribute rather than what you collect  ”This list of three types of assessment is intended only to stimulate thought….These three things – helping others, being cooperative, contributing to the public good – are obviously not easy to assess. To be sure, it’s far easier to ask students simple questions and grade the number of correct responses. But asking students simple questions, far from measuring putative ‘content knowledge’, is really an exercise in counting without any real interest in what is being counted.”

• Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger | Ars Technica

• The Building Blocks of a Sound Social Media Policy « Radian6 – Social media monitoring tools, social media engagement software and social CRM and marketing from the industry leader in social analytics.

• The rise of e-reading | Pew Internet Libraries ”Summary of findings”

• Association of Research Libraries (ARL) :: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries  ”The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) presents the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. “

• New site offers help with shift to digital education | eSchool News ”Epic-ed (US)  aims to empower digital transitions at all stages of development, including school leaders who are thinking about moving to ubiquitous computing environments, those who wish to implement ed-tech pilot projects, and those who are ready for full-scale implementation.”

• OverlapMaps – Instantly compare any two places on Earth! Overlap Maps is a free service that can be used to quickly compare the size of countries, states, provinces, and some bodies of water. To create a visual comparison of two countries select one country from the “overlap this” menu and select one country from the “onto this” menu. The comparisons you make are displayed on a map. You can make comparisons from different categories.

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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?”

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Useful sites (weekly)

 
  by  Ian Yorston 

• Save The Words This website’s objective is to bring archaic words back into circulation and usage from Oxford English Dictionary. Upon creating a registration, users can “adopt” words, promising to use them in their vocabulary as frequently as possible  

• Winners of Trend Micro’s 2011 “What’s Your Story?” Internet Safety Video Contest Challenge Youth to Make Positive Choices The annual “What’s Your Story?” international video contest that empowers youth to be leaders in educating others about being safe online.  

• Are Twitter’s New Email Notifications Cluttering Up Your Inbox? Here’s How To Turn Them Off – AllTwitter How to spend a bit of time in your Twitter settings and opt out of the email notifications system accordingly. You can always opt back in.  

• OECD: Top 5 actions to take in education today ”People from over 90 countries have expressed their priorities for action in education. They participated in Raise Your Hand – a global ideas marketplace run by the OECD from 15 September through 15 October 2010. People uploaded 325 original ideas and cast over 27,000 votes on line in just 30 days.” 

• Cataloging   A portal linking to a huge variety of cataloging resources.  

• Cataloguer’s Toolbox This is a directory of resource links related to all things cataloguing. From Bibliographic Control Services , Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada  

• Electronic Literature Collection Volume Two The Electronic Literature Collection Volume Two has been published (with identical contents) on the web and on DVD-ROM. This dual publication is intended to allow the first volume to reach the broadest audience possible and to provide for reading, classroom use, sharing, and reference on and off the network. 

• Electronic Literature Collection Volume One An anthology of works by an international group of authors “that pushes through the boundaries of literary forms, creating new kinds of experiences for interacting readers.”   

• OCLC Classify — an Experimental Classification Service This site offers automated advice for assigning classification numbers and subject headings. Searchable by standard numbers, author, title, and subject heading, the database covers books, magazines, journals, and music and video recordings. It does DDC and LCC and presents lovely orange pie charts displaying frequencies of numbers and headings.  

• 50+ Tools for Web Based Collaboration – Popwuping A good list of collaborative tools useful for teaching. 

• bookfanclubs – home  

• EdTech Toolbox: Student Designed E-books: Challenge Based Learning  

• RhymeBrain Rhyming Dictionary. Rhyme any word, even made up ones  RhymeBrain is a free to use website that indexes rhyming words in the English language. The site has a basic interface which is quite likeable. You enter an English field in the main text bar on the homepage and quickly all rhymes related rhyming words are shown.

• 70 Tools 70 Minutes A slide share presentation of some very useful tools 

• National Digital Economy Strategy – Page 36  

• Assessment for Learning: Home | Assessment for Learning Welcome to the Assessment for Learning website. This site has been developed by Curriculum Corporation on behalf of the education departments of the States, Territories and Commonwealth of Australia.  

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Useful sites (weekly)

• Amazon revokes Lendle’s API access (Update: We’re back!) – Lendle: Kindle™ Book Sharing

• Shape Collage Features Shape Collage would be useful when creating presentations. It gives you the power to make really quick collections of related photographs, set out in shapes that fit in to your display. It is free, but you need to upgrade to get rid of the watermark.

• Online Referencing Generator An online citation generator that is easy to use and and very clear for students. It usefully offers levels: Junior, Middle and Senior school. Created by School Library Association of South Australia  

• The Librarian’s Guide to Anime and Manga ‘Anime’ usually refers to Animation made in Japan, either on video, television or in comic book format. ‘Manga’ can be roughly translated to mean ‘comic book’. See this site for ways to explore this area of the graphic novel.    

• Learning with ‘e’s: 2020 teachers 

• About – WikiEducator Free online workshop on open content licensing for educators:

• Box.net | Online file sharing, content management, collaboration  

• HowStuffWorks “Are e-readers making books obsolete?” With e-reader and e-book sales on the rise, will printed and bound texts become things of the past?  

• Project Based Learning | BIE  A great source of information on Preject Based Learning

• BBC News – Computer games become a class act  BBC Report on computer games in schools. Early reports suggest that the use of gaming gadgets which younger people are familiar with can improve their performance and boost interest in subjects that they might otherwise not engage with.

• Accompaniments, free sheet music, and musicians interpretations for classical music works Weezic is your place to play classical music. Grab your instrument, print your sheet music and hit play to be accompanied by the whole orchestra.   

• Justin Tarte – Life of an Educator…: 10 videos that WILL ignite a discussion – Part 4  

• Reading List « Libraries and Transliteracy  Google Group–A reference list on information about all literacies for all types of libraries and librarians.

• 1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015  

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Useful sites (weekly)

  by  Librarian by Day  

• WordSift – Visualize Text Very clever site that creates a word cloud from text, and finds images for the most frequently occurring words.t  

• Google Search Tips (Ultimate Google Guide) The Ultimate Google Guide can help you to improve your search results and SERP analysis with less-known search Tips First Things First In there are some less-known google operators and search tips 

• How to Attach Files with Mail Merge in Gmail  

• How to Use Google Cloud Print from the Desktop Explanation about how to use Google Cloud Print from the Desktop  

• Photo Timelines – LIFE LIFE Photo Timelines hosts timelines featuring images from the LIFE collections. Visitors to LIFE Photo Timelines can view existing timelines or create their own timelines using images from the LIFE collections.  

• Top 10 Cool things you can do with Google Search!  

• Google Docs – What’s new? When people say Google is “just” search, or ads, or whatever… they forget docs is alarmingly comprehensive and (like maps) in a state of continuous improvement on multiple fronts.   

• Free Technology for Teachers: Historical Facebook – Facebook for Dead People ”Facebook, the third most populated country in the world, is a huge part of many students’ lives. Students do a lot of writing on Facebook. To leverage students’ familiarity with Facebook for a history lesson, Derrick Waddell created a Facebook template for historical figures. “ 

• Home – TripGeo.com – Map Your Trip A tool that can help to create an animated map tour between two locations that shows the travel via Google Streetview   

• Welcome to Aviary Aviary offers an online suite of free image and sound editing services   

• Five Tips for Smarter Social Networking – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – Harvard Business Review    5 easy ways to make you a better networker. Most of us are just skimming the surface in terms of the potential Social networks offer us as individuals. To realize this potential, we need to become more active orchestrators of our social networks, setting the tone and drawing out others.

• Free Pictures – Wylio.com Wylio is a little different from the other CC image portals. It’s also perfect for bloggers and web publishers of all ages. It not only finds cool copyright-friendly images from Flickr’s CC pool, it emphasizes a respect for intellectual property.  

• Convert to cartoon – Convert photo to cartoon – Cartoonize Me – Cartoonize  Convert a photo to a cartoon with one click. Easy way to create avatars

• 100 Google Search Tricks for the Savviest of Students | Online College Courses In today’s schools, most research is completed online, and Google is a great resource for combing the web. But at the same time, it’s not always easy to find exactly what you want, given that there are usually millions of results — with varying degrees of accuracy. These tricks can help you find the best results, while saving time and making your life easier

• Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value. | Blog | False Economy Best-selling author Phllip Pullman spoke to a packed meeting on 20 January 2011, called to defend Oxfordshire libraries. He gave this inspirational speech. 

• Removing barriers to literacy / Thematic reports / Documents by type / Browse all by / Publications and research / Ofsted home / Ofsted – Ofsted  The aim of this survey was to illustrate effective approaches that might help others to improve their practice in literacy. Inspectors visited providers of childcare, education and post-16 learning. The providers were selected because previous inspection evidence and data on achievement and attainment showed that they were particularly successful in enabling children and learners from disadvantaged backgrounds to make better than average progress and to achieve good standards of literacy.

• What do Students Think of Using iPads in Class? Pilot Survey Results – iPads in Education  ”It’s almost a year since the iPad was first released and we have been using them in a high school pilot program since September. Our intent was to explore different ways that the iPad could be used by students and the hope was that we could also transition to using e-Books instead of paper textbooks during the course of the year. The pilot has been a source of observational and anecdotal information. After four months I felt we should get a more precise evaluation of how students rated their experiences with the iPads. We had them complete a Google forms survey and collated the results of 126 students that responded.”

• Digital Citizenship Includes Rights and well as Responsibilities | SafeKids.com  

• Privacy, digital citizenship and young children | Australian Policy Online ”A growing number of educators and advocates in the online safety field are now embracing the term ‘digital citizenship’ to describe education about privacy, safety, security and responsible use of information and communication technologies (ICT). There is also a growing understanding of the importance of beginning this education when a child first starts their use of ICT “ 

• How my students started using Evernote – Education Series « Evernote Blogcast One teacher’s ideas about how to use Evernote in the classroom… 

• HLWIKI Canada Quote from wiki  ”Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” All sorts of

• Defining Transliteracy For Librarians | Librarian by Day 

• Transliteracy – a knol by Sue Thomas ”Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” 

• The History of Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]  ”Here’s a visually organized look at the past 30 years or so of social media history, from Usenet to AIM to Friendster and beyond. This particular infographic comes with some fun facts; for example, did you know that the first version of MySpace was coded in just 10 days?”

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