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How to Make Unique, Inexpensive Book Displays in Your Library | eHow.com The ‘eHow’ website offers a lot of ideas and advice. Here Virginia Allain gives lots of catch phrases and great ideas for creating library displays for every month of the year. It is an American site so the themes are sometimes out of kilter with Australian seasons here.
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Libraries Should Own the Future-Here’s How They Can | Cities on GOOD Libraries Should Own the Future—Here’s How They Can – Goodreads & Meetup, coffeeshops & bookstores and CSAs
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: youtube tools There is a whole section to how teachers and educators can best leverage the power of this video platform in education.
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The Best YouTube Tools and Tips for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Tricks and resources for teachers
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Five Custom Searches You Should Enable In Your Browser Right Now Custom search engines are one of the better features of the modern browser. With just a few keystrokes, you can search Wikipedia right from the address bar or do a custom Google search
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Breaking Research: Most Apps Bad – EdTech Researcher – Education Week Article that evaluates 137 recently published “educational literacy” apps, websites, and e-books. Considers most of them as very basic. Good read for those who might be thinking about creating their own (and help them avoid the pitfalls)
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How to Raise Boys That Read (As Much as Girls Do): Not With Gross-Out Books and Video Game Bribes – WSJ.com Thomas Spence writes on The Wall Street Journal Taste page about the reading gap between boys and girls, but says that the current recipe, which involves giving boys ‘gross-out’ books about bodily functions, will not work, while taking away video games will certainly help.
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Future of Impacts: ‘How to’ guide to social media, podcasting, blogging and writing your REF impact case study | Impact of Social Sciences
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The Innovative Educator: Top 5 most popular technology solutions in 2013 Five solutions that should become reality but probably will be on the 2014 list
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Do We Still Need Libraries? | John Palfrey A post that dicusses one of the New York Times Room for Debate series: The future of libraries. The debaters include Luis Herrera, director of the San Francisco Public Library: Susan Crawford, visiting professor at Harvard Law School; Buffy J. Hamilton, a school librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia; and Berkman fellow Matthew Battles. All four of their essays are excellent. And each of them answers the “debate” question in the affirmative: yes, we do still need libraries.
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How To Know If You’re Correctly Integrating Technology – Edudemic The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed. The TIM also associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.
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The 17 Best Twitter Hashtags for Education (2012 ) ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories – Edudemic “This helpful infographic does a solid job of breaking down the basics of learning theories in a visual and understandable format.” tag
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Six Traits for Identifying Complex Texts > Eye On Education The Common Core State Standards for Reading call upon students in grades K-12 to read and comprehend complex literary and information texts independently and proficiently. But before students can learn how to tackle complex texts, teachers must be able to identify texts that meet this challenge. In Big Skills for the Common Core: Literary Strategies for the 6-12 Classroom Amy Benjamin and Michael Hugelmeyer outline six traits that can be used to identify complex texts and the difference between informational texts and literary nonfiction.
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Copyright & Schools: photocopy, scan, screen or broadcast copyright resources in classrooms – simple advice for teachers “One-stop-shop with guidance for teachers copying and using books, magazines, newspapers, music, film & TV in classrooms – from the CLA, ERA, NLA, CCLI, PPL, PRS, MPLC, PVS”
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Now you can download your Twitter archive – Technology on NBCNews.com If you can’t remember what you tweeted 2 hours or 2 years ago now you can access them. Twitter has introduced a feature that lets you download your Twitter archive.You will get all your tweets — including retweets — going back to whenever you started using Twitter.
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Pitfalls of Using Wikipedia for Academic Research “Wikipedia may be easy and fast, but its not a reliable source for academic research for a multitude of reasonsstarting with the fact that its intended to be used as an encyclopedia, not an academic resource.”
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6 Great Videos on Teaching Critical Thinking ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “Critical thinking is a skill that we can teach to our students through exercise and practice. It is particularly a skill that contains a plethora of other skills inside it. Critical thinking in its basic definition refers” to a diverse range of intellectual skills and activities concerned with evaluating information as well as evaluating our thought in a disciplined way “. All of our students think in a way or another but the question is , do they really think critically ? are they able to evaluate the information they come across ? are they capable of going beyond the surface thinking layer ? Can they make connections between what they learn and the outer world? Can they question the status quo of their knowledge ?”
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Free Technology for Teachers: Crash Course – The Great Gatsby The video (part 1) by John Green who has started a new Crash Course series on English Literature. “These videos won’t replace actually reading and discussing the works with teachers, but they can provide students with some help in understanding the major plot lines of The Great Gatsby.”
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Educational Technology Buzzwords A interesting interpretation of where we are heading with the current technology available to us.
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The Readventurer – Home A blog by 2 avid readers about reading and encouraging reading
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mind blown by searching google and evernote at the same time | Brad Kozlek
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10 New Educational Web Tools for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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The “Cheap and Cheerful” Librarian, Melissa Techman, Shares Tips on Pinterest – The Digital Shift libraries