Your history and language teachers will be very interested in the recently launched EUscreen.
The new multimedia, multilingual portal reaches back to the early 1900s and offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives.
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.
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.
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:
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
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
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
