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Adventures in ESL (part 1): Picture book project Posted by joycevalenza on February 8th, 2012 We’re trying something a little different with our ESL class this week. The new semester brought us two new students from Korea with limited English. We wanted to get to know them and encourage them to get to know us better. So we thought we try picture books. Our Picture Book activity asked learners to: Select a book in your first language using one of the Read More Tags: ESL, picture books Posted in ESL \| No Comments » Test-driving instaGrok Posted by joycevalenza on February 3rd, 2012 I had a wonderful chat with the co-founders of instaGrok, a new search tool designed to help users learn about a topic by facilitating the finding of context and educational content. Still in Beta, InstaGrok is nurtured by Imagine K12, an incubator program devoted to supporting early stage ed-tech startups through a funding and mentorship program. instaGrok is not a manually-created directory; it… Read More Tags: search tools Posted in search tools \| No Comments » Super Bowl as a learning opportunity Posted by joycevalenza on February 1st, 2012 Each year I point to Frank Baker’s remarkable aggregation of media literacy resources. Frank makes it easy for us to use Super Bowl ads as tools for deeper thinking about media messages. His general questions for discussing the game are kind of timeless and his list of links are super helpful: Super Bowl Ads Home Page Read More Tags: commercial, media literacy Posted in commercials, media, media literacy, superbowl \| No Comments » New code of practice for Academic and Research Libraries Posted by joycevalenza on January 30th, 2012 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently released its own Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the code: enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in Read More Tags: copyright, fair use, intellectual property Posted in copyright, fair use, information ethics \| No Comments » Quixey and other app finding tools Posted by joycevalenza on January 30th, 2012 I am adding another search engine to my search toolkit. Quixey has been around since 2009, but it’s new to me. The search was designed to solve a problem – millions of apps were being created, but there was no simple way to find them. App discovery was limited to categories, top ten lists, directories and basic Read More Tags: apps, search tools Posted in apps, search tools \| 1 Comment » Hooray, we’re mobile! Our new app. Posted by joycevalenza on January 24th, 2012 A couple of weeks ago, I shared my intense desire to become an app. To ensure that our library was a portable and accessible as my learners’ favorite game. Here’s a peek at our first attempt. So, we used a trial version of LibGuides Mobile Site Builder as our platform. (I also played around with WebMobi Read More Tags: apps, mobile, virtual libraries Posted in apps, mobile, virtual library \| 5 Comments » “Every survivor has a story to tell.” Introducing IWitness & its 1000 stories Posted by joycevalenza on January 21st, 2012 Imagine that you could have 1,000 survivors in your classroom . . . The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation recently launched the BETA version of a truly important gift–a searchable, interactive archive of more than 1000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. It is simply one of the most elegant and thoughtfully designed portals I… Read More Tags: archive, holocaust, primary sources, video Posted in archive, holocaust, primary sources, video \| 1 Comment » Wikipedia to go dark tomorrow in opposition to SOPA/PIPA Posted by joycevalenza on January 17th, 2012 You may want to warn the kids about this. You may want to chat with them about it too. (Read Digital Shift, ALA’s PIPA, SOPA and the OPEN Act Quick Reference Guide, and my previous post for background.) The official release from the Wikimedia Foundation: English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA Read More Tags: intellectual freedom, intellectual property, SOPA Posted in SOPA, information ethics, intellectual freedom, intellectual property, wikipedia \| No Comments » Infographics: our new guide Posted by joycevalenza on January 16th, 2012 At ISTE last summer I was inspired by three fabulous presentations about using infographics as a student strategy for telling a story and taking a stand through visualizing data. Last June, I was thinking: that we could/should begin to ask learners to interact with and make sense of data, not merely by studying and consuming it, but by Read More Tags: infographics, information fluency Posted in infographics, student work \| No Comments » #highschoolchat: Help Erin raise the student voice! Posted by joycevalenza on January 16th, 2012 It’s tough to make a hashtag sticky. Especially if you are a high school junior. So I hope you will share this with your own students who want to share their voices. A while back I introduced you to Erin (@talkabouths). She’s one of those students who is passionate about raising her own voice. She cares deeply… Read More Tags: social networking, twitter Posted in social networking, twitter \| No Comments » « Older Entries	SEARCH Search for: Edublog Librarian Blog Finalist Edublogs Lifetime Achievement Tags ala apps archive biography book club children college transition commercial conference copyright creativity crowdsourcing digital citizenship digital footprints e-reputation ebooks equity ESL fair use holocaust image infographics information fluency intellectual freedom intellectual property media literacy mobile physical space picture books posters preservice librarians primary sources reflection resolutions school libraries search tools social networking SOPA student work swvbc twitter video virtual libraries websites yalit RECENT POSTS Adventures in ESL (part 1): Picture book project Test-driving instaGrok Super Bowl as a learning opportunity New code of practice for Academic and Research Libraries Quixey and other app finding tools Hooray, we’re mobile! 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