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Entries from May 27th, 2009

Plant a seed–summer exploration for teachers and librarians

May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0

Here are a few of my favorite websites to explore and learn with this summer. See how they can help seed your curriculum in some way, enhance your website, or inspire you. Animoto — Create a quick and easy animated slideshow of your photos. Use it with students to create visual poems, field trip presentations, [...]

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Guilty pleasures

May 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0

This time of year, we librarians frequently get asked what we are reading and would recommend for summer reading. Well, I’ve been having a bit of trouble responding because that means I would have to admit that right now I am re-reading Heidi! Yes, Heidi, that childhood classic set in the Alps! I don’t really even know [...]

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Summertime and time for reading

May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Web 2.0

Lee Kolbert published this excellent list of summer reading for educators. Check it out for some outstanding book suggestions that she gathered from her blog readers. And one I would add if you haven’t read it yet– Wikinomics–I’m rereading it and it is so illuminating in terms of how economics, education, and the media are [...]

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Of libraries, campfires and value

May 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Web 2.0

Last Friday we had a campfire in the library, literally And students gathered around it and sang. Is that what a library is for? Maybe not in traditional terms, but anymore, that is what I think of when I think of library. A place to gather together and interact with one another and with [...]

Marketing from the ground up?

May 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0

In their chapter “The Wiki Workplace” in Wikinomics(Tapscott/Williams), the authors write about Ross Mayfield, whose company Socialtext tries to develop tools that meet the changing needs of clients to share, collaborate and have a flexible workflow. It started me thinking about the workflow in schools, which on my campus is still very email oriented, for [...]