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Whether you attended NECC or not, you missed stuff. 

ISTEvision offers highlights in the form of featured, most popular, and top rated videos.  Many of these would be wonderful for personal professional development or to share with teachers in inservices or at faculty meetings.  I am hoping that our own library conferences grow in this sharing direction!

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I wanted to give you a bit of the flavor of Edubloggercon and the scene at NECC's Bloggers' Cafe. 

Mark Wagner posed one of the many interesting questions for conversation:  What tool do you wish you co...Read More

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I had no big choice to make this year.  NECC and ALA did not overlap and the librarians who wanted to (or could afford to) do both, could.

We mixed, we mingled, we shared.  Over the next weeks I'll be posting way more about all I learned in DC.  In this post I wanted to share the sessions I took part in. 

On Sunday, I presented an information-packed, media-rich session--Best Practices in Fair Use for K12 with Renee Hobbs and Michael RobbGrieco of Temple University, and CFF Coach, Kristin Hokanson.  The wiki contains all of our slides and resources, as well as the CoveritLive chat.  Make ...Read More

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In his blog this morning, Rafe Needleman of CNET posted an impressive list of search tools for Twitter.  It forced me to realize the puniness of my own Twitter search list, which, as a result, is now seriously pumped up.

If you are hooked on searching for more dynamic, more real-time content, don't miss these three selected by Needleman as top alternatives to Twitter's own standby, SearchTwitter.com:

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I recently blogged about the Library of Congress moving its media in a 2.0 direction.

Now, just in time to mark its 75th anniversary, the ...Read More

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Last Thursday, our webinar, Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don't Know Social Media? was graciously hosted by Steve Hargadon, who manages the The Future of Education as well as the Classroom 2.0 Nings.  Carolyn Foote,  ...Read More

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This past week's uprising in Tehran confirmed the role and the power the citizen reporter.  But Twitter and YouTube are not the only players.



Demotix, is a news-only voice for hearing the unheard, as well as a alternate channel for aspiring photo- and video-journalists.  

The About page describes the site's dual purpose:

Demotix is a citizen-journalism website and photo agency. It takes user-generated content (UGC) and photographs from free...Read More

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Wikipedia is planning a media update.