“The danger of allowing an advertising company to control the index of human knowledge is too obvious to ignore”

1. Google is polluting the internet “We’ve grown complacent as researchers; lazy as thinkers. We place too much trust in one company, a corporate advertising agency, and a single way of organising knowledge, automated keyword indexing.”… “…most people can’t tell the difference between ads and content any more, this commercial barrage is having a cultural [...]

Limewire is dead

1. Limewire http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/8097020/The-LimeWire-party-is-over-but-were-still-not-going-to-pay-for-music.html and http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/oct/29/limewire-alternatives 2. Multitasking – Bad for Your Brain – Stanford Prof Clifford Nass. http://bit.ly/cCUuP9 video 3. ClipGrab Makes it Simple to Download Videos Off Websites http://ow.ly/2ZYTU 4. Crowdsourcing Your Library Challenges: I and my co-presenters Elisabeth Abarbanel, Michelle Fromme, … http://bit.ly/byYHQd 5. humour – Collaborative Planning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXhA_hs2J8&feature=player_embedded 6. Web 2.0 Never [...]

Secretbuilder

1. Kelly Tenkely – Art history http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=3263 Pre raph pack also; Secretbuilders – virtual world history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4RkXzq5Skw and http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=1629 2. Multimodal improves learning http://www.eschoolnews.com/2008/03/26/analysis-how-multimedia-can-improve-learning/?ast=39 3. Library wiki using google forms http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2010/10/27/suggest-a-book/ Library blog http://chteacherlibrarians.blogspot.com/ 4. Year 11 and 12 students can borrow from UQ Library – conditions apply – see http://www.library.uq.edu.au/schools/#1 5. Overdrive (borrow free [...]

Publishing PowerPoint Online with Scribd

I have been trying to find a way to put my presentation online with the transcript. Slideshare seems to pick up the slide contents not the notes,so have used scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/40448221/SLAQIASL-Part-1 and http://www.scribd.com/doc/40451155/SLAQIASL-Part-2 Only thing, the powerpoint function that converts the notes to a handout cut out at 25 slides for Part 1-don’t know why-Part [...]

May we be inspired by the Saints and all who aspire for excellence

1. WBs -European SchoolsNet study http://moe.eun.org/web/iwbworkinggroup/iwb 2. Try Prezi. Look at this report using a shape, and also the poetry one by the same author: http://prezi.com/paxwok1znuvw/mystery-quest/ 3. Ebooks and self-publishing – smashwords http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2010/10/17/ebook-publishing-inspiration-with-mark-coker-from-smashwords/ 4. Free Software that converts text to voice, NaturalReader http://bit.ly/aBFp7V clear, high-quality, natural sounding voices. 5. Sally Bray Library Fiction blog http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2010/10/29/library-dragon/ [...]

Power of Vid

1. Top 25 youtube videos http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play/top-videos Intelligent tv http://www.themonthly.com.au/video A free internet TV channel delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia’s key political, social and cultural issues. Watch or download as video or audio (through iTunes) Smarter YouTube videos Open culture http://www.openculture.com/smartyoutube 225+ quality films that you can watch online. http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline YouTube EDU [...]

Favourite First Lines

Thanks to http://booktalksandmore.pbworks.com/ from Joy Millam http://bookdiva1.blogspot.com/ http://booktalksandmore.pbwiki.com and http://www.vhstigers.org/library/mrs_millam.jsp?rn=3833 Those who can, do. Those who can’t, deejay. – Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. – Uglies by Scott Westerfeld “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” Feed [...]

Font an’ blur

1. Does font affect learning http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11573666 2. IASL/SLAQ 2010 Conference Resources http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/SLAQ_IASLConference2010.html http://www.slideshare.net/IASLonline Razzle dazzle: creating interactive library spaces http://www.slideshare.net/IASLonline/interactive-library-spaces The leadership role of the teacher librarian in technology integration http://www.slideshare.net/IASLonline/technology-integration-5458618 Integrating information literacy through independent learning projects http://www.slideshare.net/IASLonline/i-5457194 Twin purposes of Guided Inquiry http://www.slideshare.net/IASLonline/guided-inquiry Using social networks and ICT to enhance Literature Circles http://www.slideshare.net/IASLonline/literature-circles-5457628 [...]

eT@lking

1. Retribalizing, Literary Style: Virtual Book Clubs and Bookcasting http://ncbookcastfestival.wikispaces.com/ and http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2010/10/22/etlking-retribalizing-literary-style-virtual-book-clubs-and-bookcast/ webinar 27 Oct 8-9pm AEDT http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com/events/etlking-retribalizing 2. Kindle blog http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/ 3. “The Enchanted Inkpot is a community for writers and readers of high, historical, traditional and cross-genre fantasy intended for middle-grade and young adult readers” http://community.livejournal.com/enchantedinkpot 4. Top 100 tools http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2010/10/top-100-tools-for-learning-2010-list-presentation-and-more.html 5. Library [...]

How to play quidditch for muggles

http://www.ehow.com/how_4534416_play-quidditch-no-magic-required.html http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/college_students_play_reallife.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1x8zy41r0 http://www.ehow.com/how_5237080_play-quidditch-muggle-style.html http://www.howcast.com/videos/204924-How-To-Play-a-RealLife-Game-Of-Quidditch http://io9.com/5099727/real-life-muggle-quidditch-is-sweeping-the-nation http://crushable.com/2007/11/27/college-students-are-playing-real-quidditchwell-as-real-as-they-can-make-it/ http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/azkaban/quidditchreal.htm Wizard tag http://www.familycorner.com/family/kids/partyideas/tag_games.shtml