Entries Tagged as 'blog'

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Ethical Use of Information

Last week, I was instructing a class for the book trailer project. Students read a book of their choice and then create a book trailer noting the characters, tone, mood, theme, and other literary elements that would fit the assignment.
For multimedia/digital assignments, we discuss the ethical use of information and how to correctly create [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I Heart 21st Century Skills Contest

Amanda and I created a short video for the I Heart 21st Century Skills Contest sponsored by AASL.  The top three videos are posted on the following site along with a link to vote. If Youtube is blocked at your school (like mine), see our video below.   Don’t forget to vote!!
A Library Provides an Opportunity

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Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Top Ten Tools

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: [...]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Voicethread

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 [...]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Plagiarism Example

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 [...]

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Meme: Passion Quilt

I saw this  on Joyce Valenza’s blog & had to contribute – I love to see what others are passionate about in our profession.  I have to say – I couldn’t just use one picture – so I combined a few.  AND of course, it took me forever to think of the “one thing” I [...]

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

New site

In the next couple of days, we will be posting a new library home page.  I struggle so much with changing the current one – if something works, don’t fix it – right?
However, we have had the same site for six years. 
Of note, the Johnson County Public Library just changed their web site.   It looks [...]

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Wiki & RSS

Two videos explaining Wiki & RSS.   Possible great way to help others begin using these things.
Wiki in Plain English:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLYttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
RSS in Plain English:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbeccablog.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F07%2F19%2Fwiki-rss%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Wiki+%26amp%3B+RSS’;
addthis_pub = ”;

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

BV West Reads

The blog site is going!  Students from CA II classes created audio and video (I am going to add to iTunes too) promoting great books. 
http://bvwestreads.edublogs.org

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbeccablog.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F05%2F30%2Fbv-west-reads%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘BV+West+Reads’;
addthis_pub = ”;

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Testing, testing…

Students created audio/video book trailers.  I am testing putting it in a blog – so here are a couple of examples…   Let’s see if I can get it to work…

Download Schindler’s List

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbeccablog.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F05%2F19%2Ftesting-testing%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Testing%2C+testing%26%238230%3B’;
addthis_pub = ”;