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
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
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
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
The King Center in Atlanta recently announced that this year’s commemoration of Dr. King’s birthday will also mark the launch of a new site, the… Read More
Sometimes you’ve got to sit on a day for a bit before you realize how interesting it was.
Yesterday was one of those days.
Ordinary.
But lying in bed, desperately trying to come up with one special thing to blog about, I realized that maybe it was the day as a whole–a slice of school library life–that might be the most interesting post.
Transparency, as used in science, engineering, business, the humanities and in a social context more generally, implies openness, communication, and accountability. Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed. . . All organizations have a transparency culture, that part of the culture that relates to transparency; but few have
Just a brief post to share this poster I discovered on Tanner Christensen’s Creative Something blog. (Lot’s more to explore there.)
Tanner explains: Nine simple rules that help propel creatives (that means you) to success. Whether you’re an artist, a writer, a craftsperson, an entrepreneur, a student or a teacher, or anyone in-between: these rules are for you.
