Archive for the ‘digital publishing’ CategoryStill time for the Trailees!Monday, September 5th, 2011Good news! The deadline is extended for SLJ’s Trailee Awards!
If you missed the August 31 deadline to nominate your favorite book trailer–perhaps because of that little thing called summer–you still have time to gather those little video gems. The deadline is extended till September 15. Submit your favorite book trailer in any of these… Read More Web 3.0: We have so much stuff!Saturday, September 3rd, 2011I’ve been looking for a strategy to describe the value of curation strategies to other librarians, my own faculty, and to my students. Last year we established that notebooks just weren’t working for us. This school year I want to be better able to address
Celebrating “The Power of Open”Monday, July 4th, 2011
Infographics as an infolit productWednesday, June 29th, 2011
Inspired by Walt WhitmanTuesday, March 1st, 2011BethAnn Olesen, one of my favorite collaborating English teachers, developed a simple project that inspired some outstanding poetic efforts and I thought I’d share. The prompt was to create a digital poem inspired both by Walt Whitman’s I Hear America Singing and by your own personal interpretation of the American Dream. BethAnn explains the details: On LibGuides (and the dangers of relying on free lunch)Sunday, February 6th, 2011It’s a new semester here in Springfield and I’ve been reflecting again. (This post is kinda connected to the next, so please read on. It will be up soon.) I am a huge fan of free apps for creativity and productivity and dynamic information gathering. No surprise that in this blog I frequently celebrate the open source movement and the ever growing array of free web-based, collaborative apps… Read More Glogster now presentsTuesday, November 23rd, 2010I use Glogster daily. As a interactive poster/presentation/research tool for my students. As a tool for creating web-based interfaces professionally. And I just gathered my Glogster search posters together as a presentation. Teachers who are serious Glogsters can now take a next step in sharing, archiving, and organizing their students’–or their own– work. A… Read More Apps for student teacher librariansSaturday, November 6th, 2010About a year ago around this time I began thinking of the apps I really wanted to load (metaphorically) on my students’ screens.
This semester, I am very blessed to have a brilliant student teacher with me! Nora has also been with us as a… Read More Thanks, Gale. And I want more of these.Sunday, October 10th, 2010Thanks to a Cathy Oxley’s post on our TL Diigo group, I just discovered Gale Cengage’s new YouTube video promoting AccessMyLibrary School Edition. Here’s why this matters. It matters because the market for this little video is not librarians. The market is kids. The story is why kids need reliable information and how easy it is to get it. Load that… Read More
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