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 [...]
I am always looking for different ways I can help students interact with the content on a web page.
What I am looking for…
*Available at home and school
*Online – not paper and pencil type thing
*Works with databases and free web
*Easy to use
*Easy to download (if you have to download) and use with a variety of browsers
From [...]
Search Everything – Federated Searching
We recently launched Ebsco’s Integrated Search which is a type of federated searching that is affordable for us.
What do I like about it?
*Searches our sources from one spot – books and online
*Appears all on one page and since students are familiar with Ebsco, they are comfortable with the interace.
*Keywords – I [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
Another exciting year at BVW! (I thought about the beginning line for some time – how do I begin to look at the new school year? Exciting, full of change, anticipation….)
So, as we begin the new school year, there are many dreams/hopes for the library.
We decided to come up with specific SMART Goals for our department. [...]
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 = ”;
Google Notebook – saw this on the Google Librarian blog and tried it already. Has some good things
a. immediacy to taking notes
b. every student loves google – so why not find some good things with it
c. accessible anytime, anywhere
d. never have to leave your browser to create notes
e. ability to link back to the [...]
