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November 3, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

My bag is packed and it is nearly time to run off to the airport.  I am so looking forward to learning and sharing in Charlotte. 

Our geek@aasl team will be sharing from Charlotte. 

Keep an eye on the b there site, my blog (and many others), and the #aasl2009 Twitter stream for updates.  Other networks like Flickr, YouTube, TeacherLibrarianNing, and SlideShare will be using the tag: aasl2009.  We will try to stream as much as possible.  Check the Bloggers' Cafe page for a peek at the SlideShare handout feed.  

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November 1, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

If you were out trick or treating yesterday afternoon, you likely missed Diigo's Maggie Tsai on Classroom 2.0 Live.  Happily, the chat is archived!  And, if you haven't tried Diigo yet, this is absolutely the right time.

Diigo's motto is research, share, collaborate and now it allows us all to do all stuff that even better. The acronym stands for: Digest of Internet Information, Groups and ...Read More

October 31, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

This week, Animoto went a little viral at our high school. 

• The eighth graders completed music videos of their selected summer reads. 
• Prior to reading To Kill a Mockingbird, the 10th grade researched the history of the 1930s and began creating videos to express the feel of the times using images from the America From the Great Depression to WWII (Library of Congress) and found poem text.
  
• US History II began production on music videos on 20th c

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October 28, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (10)

I received my copy of ISTE's Learning & Leading with Technology in the mail this weekend and I found the editors' two selected answers to that question that has been bouncing around the ISTE Ning for a while: Do schools still need brick-and-mortar libraries?

Here's the full question:

Google has settled the lawsuits and is moving forward in its quest to make the holdings of the world’s major libraries available online for free. Several university libraries have already started digitizing their collections, including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia,

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October 27, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

One of the latest tools to enter Google's beta area, Labs, is Google Social Search.

Now, when you do a Google search, the same Show Options button that gives us the lovely TimeLine and Wonder wheel and Related search features, allows us to see what our own network has to say about that search topic. (You will also find Results from people in your social circle on the bottom of your vertical search, but I prefer that Show Options button.)

Google explains:

More easily find relevant blo

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