Useful links

   by  Ken Whytock 

• Toward More Strategic Searching with Presearch Strategy Mapping | The Unquiet Librarian “As we negotiate concerns and tensions about budgeting time and the constraints that inform those challenges, we also have conversations about how to slow down inquiry processes.  How can we provide students time and opportunity to dwell, wrestle, and grow as searchers who can develop effective strategies and techniques for finding information and using that information to narrow a topic?   How do we help students learn techniques for cropping and focusing a topic area?  While we have been advocates for pre-search for a long time, we are excited that we seem to be getting more of our fellow teachers excited about this aspect of research and inquiry processes as well.”

• How to undo Google app updates to Android Lollipop “Revert updates of Google Calendar, Gmail, Maps and other apps to Android Lollipop. An fairly easy explanation of how to go back to older versions of an app.”

• Educational Web Tools You Might Not Have Heard of ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• 20 Free Tools for Making Comics and Cartoons for Teaching and Learning One teacher’s guide to some of the many good free tools for creating comics and cartoons on the web, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones.

  50+ Tools for Differentiating Instruction Through Social Media | Edutopia Some interesting tools and how they might be used mentioned in the post. “In the past, limited access placed a hardship on teachers to meet the diverse needs of their students, especially when school resources are limited. In this brave new world, we are fortunate to live and work in an environment where the possibilities are endless for getting students what they need when they need it, and in a format that works best for them. How are you tapping possibilities to meet learner needs?”

• Redesigning Schools for Today’s Students and Beyond | EdSurge News

• Raising Savvy Cyber Kids | Ben Halpert | TEDxKids@Vilnius – YouTube Great TEDtalk from Ben Halpert on cyberethics for kids.

• The Best Teacher Tools for Taking Screenshots and Annotating Pictures ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “A list of the best 4 web tools for creating screenshots. Besides being free, these tools are very simple to use and are also student friendly. They will allow you to  capture your screen, crop and annotate your pictures using  arrows, colours, shapes, text and many more.” It is always great to have visuals as part of any explanation to students (or for them to use as well)> These 4 are briefly explained and look easy to use.

• Personalized Learning Vs Traditional Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “A nice infographic that helps to show some of the differences between personalized learning and traditional learning”

• Excellent Speech to Text Tool Integrated with Google Drive ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• Finding copyright-friendly photos for the Google Images generation – eClassroom News “Searching and citing usable images is easy once students learn the basics Teaching students to respect the intellectual property of others is important in this digital “cut and paste” world we live in. One great project to share with students that can better help them understand how and when they may use images created by others is the Creative Commons project. Creative Commons is designed to span the gap between full copyright and the public domain. The Creative Commons project provides content creators the opportunity to state ahead of time how their images may (or may not) be used.”

• Clearing the Confusion between Technology Rich and Innovative Poor: Six Questions

• Did I Plagiarize? The Types and Severity of Plagiarism Violations Good infographic on plagiarism. It would be a useful document to use with students to teach them about plagiarism: what constitutes an act of plagiarism and the different types of copyright violations that can occur. The image is not free. You read it online as large version by clicking on the image but you will need to purchase it if you want a copy to put up onto a wall. If you are looking for what web tools are available to help detect plagiarism this list is a good place to start.

• Educational Technology Guy: Free to use – 10,000 Film Clips, 64,000 Images, and 100s of audio files “The new Public Domain Project is offering free film clips, images and audio files for anyone to use. It will have “thousands of historic media files for your creative projects, completely free and made available by Pond5,” an entity that brands itself as “the world’s most vibrant marketplace for creativity.”

• How to Use WeVideo on Your Android Device | Android 4 Schools

• Three Android Apps for Creating Flipped Video Lessons | Android 4 Schools 3 good Android apps to use for creating instructional videos. Each has been discussed by Richard Byrne to give you a good idea about their strengths nd how they might be used in education.

• How to become a librarian! | Library Q&A Part 1 – YouTube “Published on 29 Nov 2014. Part one of a Library Q&A – all about becoming a librarian and MLIS degrees. The list of questions were: 00:45 – What skills do you need to be a librarian? 02:40 – What lead me to become a librarian? 03:57 – Do I have a degree, and are MLIS degrees needed in other countries? 04:34 – What kind of coursework did I do for my degree? 06:05 – Did I do a thesis? 06:36 – Did I go to Dal, and if yes, what did I think of it? Also: What advice would I give to new/aspiring MLIS students? 09:15 – Considering an MLIS degree, but concerned about not being able to find a job afterward – what are my thoughts on this? 10:49 – Do librarians make a lot of money? 12:36 – How should someone go about getting a library job while at university? Do they hire non-MLIS students?”

• 4 Education Technology Trends To Watch – InformationWeek Educational technology continues to change and the author of this post suggests that these four trends will influence learning in schools (and in corporations) in 2015.

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