Center for Social Media
“We investigate, showcase and set standards for socially engaged media-making. We organize conferences and convenings, publish research, create codes of best practices, and incubate media strategies.”
Blogs to Watch
Center for Social Media
“We investigate, showcase and set standards for socially engaged media-making. We organize conferences and convenings, publish research, create codes of best practices, and incubate media strategies.”
Blogs to Watch
AcademHacK | Banned Librarian | collectanea | copythisblog | Designing Better Libraries | Found History | Free Range Librarian | Free Technology for Teachers | Getting Boys to Read | The Handheld Librarian | Hey Jude | In the Library with a Lead Pipe | JenSC.org | Learning 2.0 | Librarian In Black< | Libraries and Transliteracy | Open Thinking | QuestionCopyright.org | Shifted Librarian | So You Want To Teach? | Tame the Web | The Uncommon Commons | The Unquiet Library
Social Networks
ISTE Community
Teacher-Librarian Ning
Articles
Book Recycling
- A use for that too awesome to throw out book cover you weeded… http://bit.ly/9Y10xA
Copyright
- Experts: Copyright law hinders scholarship http://bit.ly/6xBydW
- Burning CDs checked out from the library: ripping or ripping http://bit.ly/4tqB4G
- NYT: Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending http://bit.ly/5vKHvd … considering OverDrive for the classroom…new model.
- Maybe We Can: Image Copyright and You http://bit.ly/7rzn4c
- Piracy of eBooks on the rise… http://bit.ly/utgjj
Games and Game Theory
- Educational games at http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/ reinforce the ideas promoted by award winning thinkers!
- Play games and make games! http://www.sploder.com/
- Another site for playing, making, and sharing games http://www.yoyogames.com
- Try http://www.pygame.org for Python support!
- Use this game http://wikipediagame.org/ to reinforce great search habits!
- Get admins to read: Game-based lrning, mobl devices, & cloud will find a plc in schools nationwide, researchers sayhttp://bit.ly/917BLM
- Report: Can Video Games Promote Intergenerational Play & Literacy Learning? http://bit.ly/aZOP7Z … thinking we need to let loose a bit!
- IBM Announces Free City Management Educational Gamehttp://bit.ly/a6LNid
Information Access
- Wikipedia’s Co-Founder Calls for Better Information Literacy http://bit.ly/bh1K6R … added wikipedia to 9th grade orientation this past yr
- Myth of Browsing, Am Lib Mag. http://bit.ly/9TI1vm | Cool take on value of book as object vs. book as resource
- Pathfinder swap? asks Joyce Valenza http://bit.ly/cQKbUX
- The Daisy Consortium facilitates information access for special needs learners. Check out this Microsoft add-on http://bit.ly/cBQaiu
Learning Spaces
- Digital Students, Industrial-Era Universities http://bit.ly/9SC73t Lead change from the top please!
- 7 Tips for Building Collaborative Learning Spaces http://bit.ly/dxGec8
Privacy
- Need to backup your social life? Check out this http://bit.ly/8YdXsP
- Students struggle…and maybe teachers struggle more…with creating strong passwords. See this: http://bit.ly/6qbq6v
More…
- Unboxing the Medium … food for thought… http://bit.ly/6zhrJL
- Producing Transmedia Experiences: Stories in a Cross-Platform World http://bit.ly/8SidHp How shd libs enter into this dialog?
- Build a lexicon with Lexipedia http://libraryremix.com/?p=1126
- Open data…new concept in sharing online. Check out http://www.factual.com/ to start sharing. Be sure to watch the videos!
- Participate collaborative sticky-note projects online with WallWishers…http://www.wallwisher.com/
- Impacts of Media Multitasking http://bit.ly/cXS9NV Serious food for thought about how and what we teach.
- Shut Up and Write http://bit.ly/chrUew advocates for proactive writing support…