The ebook fling

1. Swap, Borrow or Lend eBooks with e-book rental from eBookFling.com http://t.co/5K and http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376786,00.asp and http://ebookfling.com/howitworks.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LABRy-R3YBM 2. Create answers- eg encountering conflict http://answergarden.ch/view/7871 3. http://bit.ly/ed7ZKD The Future of Student Inquiry/Research: Environmental Scanning and Scenario Building Joyce Valenza 4. Higher Education Assignment Toolkit. http://t.co/fXsqWWE 5. Testing and media misrepresentation http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/alfie-kohn/do-test-really-help-students-l.html?wprss=answer-sheet 6. Community outreach training: [...]

Brownout

1. Research shows that “paying attention” to more than one thing at a time results in a ‘”mental brownout” — decreased brain power allocated to either of the two things than the brain power available when focusing on a single task or topic. http://fno.org/jan2011/brownout.html 2. green computing http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/01/24/amid-economic-uncertainty-ed-tech-leaders-do-more-with-less/ 3. wikiversity http://blog.tomw.net.au/search/label/RCC11 4. Mrs Mac’s library [...]

Valiant

1. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/newslettersnewsletterbucketextrahelping2/888919-477/cutting-edge_library_award_goes_to.html.csp Library Program award -Buffy Hamilton 2. overdrive video in libraries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=540EEPIw3o0 3. Joyce Valenza http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3911/ and http://lateam.wikispaces.com/School+Library+Websites virtual literacy http://tldl.pbworks.com/f/Heit.pdf Virtual school Libraries -meeting the needs of learners 4. http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2011/01/25/aasl-vision-tour-a-look-back-at-our-morning-with-nancy-everhart/ joyve valenza library promotion 2011 5. Joyce Valenza on how to grow a textbook http://ow.ly/3HfV0 6. Legally adding copyrighted video 2 ur Youtube [...]

S Day 1 2011

1. SchoolTube – Videomaker’s Favorite Green Screen Effects http://t.co/D 2. 3 great music engines http://www.pandia.com/sew/3396-music-recommendation.html#more-3396 3. http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20110122-315900/Beyond– beyond rote learning 4. create posters http://www.bighugelabs.com/ 5. History – google – maps mashups http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-awesome-historical-google-maps-mashups/ 6. Add your voice to presentations http://my.brainshark.com/Home.aspx share online 7. overlay statistics on maps http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://mdgmaps.appspot.com?gname=educators 8. Beginner – Enhancing posts with images http://bit.ly/e3kptO [...]

It’s a game

1. presentation about Creating Game-like engagement for learning. http://ning.it/f4Pnor 2. Watch this interesting video about how children learn through doing online research. Make sure you watch the end for the most interesting part for librarians http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxYgpQhsrU 3. http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/assets/pdf/Schoollibraries21C.pdf Lyn Hay School library programming 4. Guided inquiry http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/docs/GI-School-Librarians-in-the-21-Century.pdf 5. Habits influence information literacy http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/paper295.html 6. http://www.jld.qut.edu.au/publications/vol3no2/documents/JahnkeJLDvol3no2_000.pdf [...]

smackdown

1. How to smackdown http://www.accessola.com/data/6/rec_docs/477_Exemplary_School_Libraries_in_Ontario_2009.pdf example http://barbarabray.net/2010/09/16/web-2-0-smackdown/ and http://tlsmackdown.wikispaces.com/ 2. Kindle and compatibility with libraries http://ireaderreview.com/2011/01/20/reviewing-the-impact-of-kindle-not-supporting-or-supporting-library-books/ 3. Creative thinking and Bloom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-JjaOgIRBo Kelly Tenkely 4. Review: Library E-Books Easier, But Still Hassle http://is.gd/L5w54b 5. http://j.mp/ffl8AI E-book readers and access to information. 6. The Rise And Fall Of Yahoo: The Infographic http://tcrn.ch/gQC1bJ 7. Video tutorials http://stumpteacher.blogspot.com/p/video-tutorials.html [...]

Yandex

1. The new google? Try yandex http://www.pandia.com/sew/ and http://www.stateofsearch.com/were-tired-of-google-its-time-for-a-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+stateofsearch+(State+of+Search) 2. http://www.apl.org/libcats/dewey.html#c search for dewey number 3. http://www.abbreviations.com/ Browse the Web’s Largest Acronyms & Abbreviations Resource 4. writing http://bit.ly/dFGCsH Demo Slam showing how much you can do with Google tools 5. 2010 statistics, plus Most Downloaded Juvenile eBooks and audiobooks http://ow.ly/3A15Q 6. using timelines in the [...]

young at heart

1. Book blogs http://yaatheart.com/and www.foreveryoungadult.com from http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:1128753 2. EDUBEAT: eType – Free Dictionary and Translator: eType is a new application that auto-completes words,.http://sns.ly/QFa79 3. Online learning http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/newslettersnewsletterbucketextrahelping2/888668-477/nyc_does_john_white_on.html.csp 4. Geocube? http://j.mp/hOJW2z 5. What’s your bookprint http://youarewhatyouread.scholastic.com/adults/ and http://onourmindsatscholastic.blogspot.com/2011/01/wise-words-about-books-and-reading.html 6. upload and view videos in Google Docs? Wow –http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1047043&hl=en 7. Balance and a river of information http://post.ly/1RYmB [...]

Questions and answers

1. quora http://www.fastcompany.com/1713096/innovation-agents-charlie-cheever-co-founder-quora?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+fastcompany/headlines+(Fast+Company+Headlines)&utm_content=Twitter 2. More Than 100 PowerPoint Tutorials & a Free Template » The Rapid eLearning Blog http://bit.ly/fZS5q5 3. Australian librarians and their copyright dance – puttin’ on the writshttp://bit.ly/hhVzmq 4. Digital Lending: How it works and who allows it and complications with Kindle author rights. http://bit.ly/eUdCQF ebooks 5. http://mashable.com/2011/01/04/classroom-technology-education/ 6 Important Lessons From [...]

Cashed up

1. Goldman Sachs Gives Mark Zuckerberg 450 Million Reasons http://www.fastcompany.com/1713914/goldman-sachs-invests-in-facebook-in-50-billion-valuation 2. using evernote in class http://blog.evernote.com/2011/01/05/how-my-students-started-using-evernote-education-series/ 3. Licorize – Organize Bookmark Collection http://j.mp/hP2GPq 4. overdrive cheat sheet http://www.suite101.com/content/overdrive-ereader-guide-helps-libraries-manage-ebook-checkouts-a328468 5. Digital Storytelling and visualization “Research: How to Tell Stories with Data?” http://bit.ly/en6fpn 6. January 5 Kindle Program Update: Form Modifications, Cataloging, Tech Issues: http://bit.ly/gdkYOd 7. Media [...]