I wasn’t planning to do anything for Hour of Code this year, but today I found a fun holiday calendar project to tinker with and I managed to tweak the code to make it work! […]
Winter Holiday Cool Tools Calendar
Category: Miscellaneous
Digital Portfolios for Students
In our Cool Tools for School workshop, we include a lesson on Digital Portfolios that gives educators participating in the workshop a chance to explore a range of tools to help students build a collection […]
21 Communication Skills Every HS student should have before College and Career
I’d say these are 21 communication skills we all need! This is one of the terrific graphics from Lisa Johnson’s (@TechChef4) recent book Cultivating Communication in the Classroom: Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students I’m looking […]
Photo sources for the classroom
Richard Byrne of Free Tech for Teachers has updated his handy chart of reliable photo sources to use with students. Personally, I love pixabay, but it is fairly easy to find photos you might […]
NYS Summer Reading – YA Books Widget
One of the many fun projects that I have the privilege of working on is the New York State Summer Reading program website. We’ve been working on some redesigning, which is always a work in […]
Jauntful: Create your own travel guides
Jauntful is a great new tool for creating and sharing your own personalized travel guides. Create a guide to share your favorite places with friends. Create one for an upcoming trip with spots you don’t […]
Friday Picks: May 4, 2012
Obviously this isn’t really going to be a weekly sort of thing. You’d think I could manage that? But I’m barely managing to keep up with the weekly “Friday Photos” group on flickr. So let’s […]
Friday Picks: April 14, 2012
More odds and ends. Some new, some not. New photo editor for Flickr – With Google having gobble up the Picnik photo editor, Flickr has turned to Aviary for photo-editing features. Digging Into WordPress – New printed […]
Friday Picks: March 30, 2012
Some interesting things I’ve run across this week. Trying to restart my “New & Not So New” posts that I used to do! ‘New Librarianship’ Pinterest Boards – Contest that was run by the Syracuse […]
Pinterest and WordPress
When I searched the WordPress plugin directory for “Pinterest” 2 weeks ago, I found 20 plugins. Today there are nearly 50. These plugins add PinIt buttons to your posts and pages, provide options for displaying […]
Busy!
by Jameson42 At this time last year, I had lots of training travel plans for the winter months, all of which came to an abrupt halt when I broke my knee in February. Even with that […]
Colors with Storify WordPress plugin
photos from my flickr feed – to test the Storify plugin for WordPress