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Joyce Valenza Ph.D

Joyce is the teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School, a technology writer, and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT’s School of Library and Information Science.



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K12Online Conference! Be there.

November 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

It's absolutely free.  You don't have to travel.  And everyone is welcome to attend!  There are NO excuses. 
Please join me and a gathering of so many outstanding educators from around the world at the K12Online Conference

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Google Image Swirl

November 17, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Today Google Labs launched a lovely experimental feature called Image Swirl,

which builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface.

  
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New:Google Sites Templates

November 17, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Google Sites debuted its templates today, making it easier than ever for anyone to create an attractive web presence.

 

Among the cool features:
When you select a template from the new Sites template gallery, your new site will come setup with custom page layouts, links for navigating to each page, embedded gadgets, themes and much more.
Templates are organized into the following categories:
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Bing's new visual search

November 16, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

You're going to want to play around with Bing's beautiful, new Visual Search.  And so will your students.



A directory-type search, still in BETA, Visual Search allows you to search from images that fit into a growing variety of data groupings. It reminds me a bit of the matrix-type search offered by Google Squared. (See Google Squared: another one to...Read More


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Great Libraries of Learning (or gr8 lol)

November 13, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

Our resource centres should be drivers of teacher and student learning. We cannot afford for our resource centres to be underutilised or bound in a twentieth century learning paradigm. (Great Libraries of Learning)
I continue to look for ways to define our revised/refreshed/remixed vision of library to the world.  (Please, please scroll way down. I can't get this widget to fit in this blogspace and you need to see it!)

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