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I’ve thought this a long time and even thought I’d blogged about it.   But after searching the site for a post I discovered I hadn’t.   Shame!
After reading Terri Bennett’s article, ‘Time for us to break the bottled water habit’, in ‘The Charlotte Observer’  I can wait NO longer!   You can read Ms. Bennett’s article AND [...]

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Did you know that Google shows Twitter ‘Tweets’ under ‘Updates’ and will soon show searches from Facebook?  How much do you really want to share?  With friends?  With the world?
KimKomando.com says,
‘Facebook has long been known for its excellent
privacy tools. But it recently made changes that expose more of your
information. Search sites can find your [...]

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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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‘No’
‘I’m done with that!’
‘Nada!’
‘Not going to do it!’
‘No More!’
‘Sorry, no way!’
‘Love to, but…!’
‘I’ll be glad to tell you how to get started but I won’t create it.’

These are but a few responses I might give to someone who asked me to create a Website.  I’ve done plenty of them in the past but have worked [...]

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Math lovers might enjoy the Webpage mentioned on Infosthetics.com, ‘Visualizing Prime Numbers’. 

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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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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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The Library of Congress offers ‘Endangered Species: Selected Internet Resources’ in their Science Reference Services.  Learned about this from ResourceShelf.com.  Read their post about it - http://www.resourceshelf.com

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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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