NeverEndingSearch

July 2, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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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July 2, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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

July 1, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

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

June 25, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

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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June 23, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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