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Elementary School 2.0

Jul 16th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Buffy Hamilton (The Unquiet Librarian) posted some great examples today of how elementary schools are using social media to communicate with faculty, parents & students. Read her post!

I wanted to highlight two of her examples from Christina Bentheim at the Dickens Elementary School in North Las Vegas, NV.

1: A wiki page chock full of resources for teacher, parents & students and with a great Glogster graphic as an interactive front page.

2: Her NetVibes information portal full of subject resources, a parenting section, teaching resources and more.

Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don’t Know Social Media?

Jun 17th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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This should be a great discussion!!! Participate live – Thursday night.

Join us tomorrow on the Future of Education at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) when Joyce Valenza leads a discussion on the future of librarians and their role in education. Special guests: Buffy Hamilton, Cathy Nelson, and Carolyn Foote! See the full event details at http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/panel-discussion-is-there-a

(via email from Classroom 2.0)

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I will work for chocolate!

May 4th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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These lovely quilted hot pads were given to the speakers at the NYLA/ SLMS meeting last week. And lots of chocolate bars.

Thanks to everyone who came to my two sessions at the NYLA/SLMS annual conference. The resources for the sessions are on my wiki.

There were so many good ideas being shared by people who attended, but we ran out of time to talk and share. I hope you’ll use this page to share the web sites, project ideas and examples of how you’re using the tools we talked about.

The comments box awaits your input!

Student book reviews linked to catalog

Feb 9th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Student book reviews linked to catalog

In a class last week, Jenny Brown and Silvia Lilly from the Bethlehem HS showed us how they were linking their students’ book reviews to their catalog. They save the reviews on their school server and then link in the 856 field. Pretty nifty simple trick. Try searching for Kite Runner.

ticTOCs Table of Contents Service

Jan 21st, 2009
by pollyalida.
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ticToCs aggregates the tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from over 400 publishers. It’s easy to search for journals by title, subject or publisher. From there it’s simple to view the tables of contents and link to the publisher’s sites. If your campus has full text access, you’re all set. Even without full text access, this is a terrific current awareness service.

Rather get your tables of contents via RSS in your own feed reader? Select the journal titles of interest and export them as an OPML file. Import that file into Google Reader, Bloglines or other feed reader and all the titles will be added in one fell swoop.

What an incredible time saver this service is. Finding the RSS feeds for even a handful of journals can be time consuming, finding them for over 11,000 journals, wow! Thank you to consortium that put this together.

Inauguration 2009 Pageflakes Pagecast

Jan 14th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Check out the Unquiet Librarian’s pageflakes page for the inaguration. Nice work Buffy!

This screencast is still a work in progress, but you can see the latest feeds from our favorite bookmarks, news outlets, and TWITTER!  Stay tuned as I add more resources in the next few days!

Inauguration 2009 Pageflakes Pagecast by The Unquiet Library

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