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An article on InsideHigherEd.com entitled, ‘Text Generation‘,  got me started thinking about texting and communicating with students.   Personally, I don’t think in most cases the students should have a teacher’s cell phone number.  However, I think it would be interesting to provide texting options with the ‘library and specificially the ‘reference librarian’ as in the [...]

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I learned about GoogleLab’s ‘Living Stories’ collaboration project with the New York Times and the Washington Post via ResearchBuzz.  I see great potential in this application.  Is this the new RSS Reader?  The new Wikipedia?   To understand ‘Living Stories’ watch the brief video on the page.
Currently, the following TIMELY stories are included:

Health Care Reform

Afghanistan War

Global [...]

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One of our teachers in my school was wanting some good material to teach a lesson on the Panama Canal.  I set off looking for materials and enjoyed the journey!  The Panama Canal is fascinating to me.  Here are some of the resources that I found (that weren’t blocked at my school - ex. YouTube [...]

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‘AASL is promoting two resource lists, each honoring Internet web sites that enhance learning and curriculum development. Developed by an AASL task force, the sites are all free and user friendly.
The Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning focuses on websites that foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboratin.            [...]

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I was watching the South Carolina* Gamecocks play the Florida Gators and noticed a player with a nice name on the back of his jersey, ‘Integrity’.   I thought, now that is a name to live up to!   Then I noticed another whose jersey said, ‘Courage’.   I thought, ‘Huh,  that is odd!’   Now I was curious [...]

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My college age son texted me about a deal to make a lot of money with Google.   That started a good ‘text conversation’.   He had run across a ‘news’ article from ‘News 6 Boston’  that had an article about it.  The article was entitled, ‘Breaking News: Google Hiring Americans To Work From Home’.   Well, I [...]

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AASL (American Association of School Librarians) published a list of ‘Top 25 Web Sites for Teaching and Learning’.  This list contains an interesting variety of Websites with a brief introduction for each.  The sites were chosen because they ‘foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are [...]

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InsideHigherEd.com posted an interesting article about ‘the university library of the future’.  The article simply entitled, ‘Libraries of the Future’, begins:
‘The university library of the future will be sparsely staffed, highly decentralized, and have a physical plant consisting of little more than special collections and study areas.’
Read on…http://www.insidehighered.com

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TheStar.com had a great article on the role of libraries today AND the future of libraries.  The article, ‘A tale of two countries’ libraries’, looked at public libraries in Canada and the U.S.A. to see what is working.  Here is an excerpt:
‘In a 2006 poll, 78 per cent of Americans said if their local library [...]

Continue Reading “Libraries are back big-time, they’re having a renaissance.”