1. iGoogle: A great place for all my feeds. For students, they can easily customize the page for their needs AND place our widgets on the page.
2. Twitter: I receive so much information from Twitter. New ways to get information into the hands of students by posting on our website too. twitter/bvwlibrary twitter/beccamunson
3. Google Reader: [...]
Just updated the library newsletter http://bvwlibrary.edublogs.org .
Twitter in Education – How?
Shout’Em
Neat Sites
Teacher Spotlight
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I added a Twitter feed on the library web page. Why? Well, I was reading my blogline feeds today and saw a recent post from Hey Jude, a powerpoint from Nathan Wright and Hilary Brown discusses Library 2.0 . Although a lot of the information is directed to public libraries, the examples of how public [...]
Animoto is a great site for student projects. To me, it beats out all software – Photostory, Movie Maker, and even iMovie. Why?
1. Can be accessed from any computer with Internet access.
2. Although it won’t take video, it creatively displays photos, so you don’t even notice.
3. Only allows small amount of text per slide. (Typically, students [...]
Typically, we provide monthly reports to our administrators – we keep stats, count classes, and make copies. These go in their mailboxes until the next month. However, this year we changed to semester reports and added a new feature, assessed indicators. We looked at our KS State Reading Assessment tested indicators and noted each time [...]
Watch CBS Videos Online
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This is a double-post from the JAG Stacks newsletter blog for teachers at staff at West.
With new 2.0 tools, there are new ways to visualize text that can possibly enhance understanding and engage students.
Tagcrowd and Wordle provide visual representations of words.
How can it be used? Go to SIRS Researcher, Election 2008, and copy-paste [...]
I am teaching voicethread class this afternoon to teachers in our district. For the class, I created a resource wiki (http://bvvoicethread.wikispaces.com/), so we can post new ideas and access resources that I found to help beginners.
We recently purchased the education license of Voicethread. It makes it easier to manage for the most part. Recently, they [...]
I am always looking for real world examples when discussing plagiarism with students. Often, it seems that taking something from another site is not a big deal. I found this recent company blog article discussing how another company used their words. Although to me, the offense is very slight, it does a good job of [...]
With the new school year, we are again revisiting our norms, vision, and goals from last year to update for this school year.
Smart Goals for 2008-2009
1. By the end of 2008-2009 school year, the library media specialists will integrate 21st Century Skills into 50% of the lessons collaborated.
Initiatives: Training for teachers
New knowledge of 2.0 tools
Integration [...]
