Check out this upcoming free webinar from WebJunction. I’m particularly interested in this piece: “learn how you can use Wikipedia to expand access to your collections and creatively engage your communities.” Wednesday, July 19, 2017 […]
Summer Reading and the Summer Slide
“Summer Slide is the loss of skills during the time students are not in school.†Reading during the summer can help prevent the summer slide. For more information about summer reading, reading aloud, reading books […]
Summer Learning Project
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the school year has come to an end and we’re all looking forward to summer vacation. Bring it on! And our 2016-17 Cool Tools for School workshop […]
2017 Digital Literacy + Fake News mini-conference
The Library 2.017 online mini-conference on Digital Literacy + Fake News mini-conference was held earlier today. If you weren’t able to attend in real-time, all the webinar recordings are now available. Another great production by […]
Chrome & Chromebooks Webinars from SimpleK12
SimpleK12 is offering six 30-minute webinars on Chromebooks & Chrome web tools and extensions on Saturday June 3. Free! Sounds like great topics: Session #1: 10am – 10:30am ET with Jerry Swiatek “Chromebooks 101: An […]
Tech Tools for the Love of Reading
This weekend I have the pleasure of spending time with a group of terrific school librarians at the Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville, NY.  It’s a wonderful location to get away from everything and […]
Books for Kids: Empathy, Diversity and the Immigrant Experience
In the past months, many organizations have published lists of YA and kids books focused on diversity, understanding the immigrant experience and developing empathy. For a project I’m working on, I merged a selection of […]
Juxtapose – Comparing Images
Juxtapose creates a slider to compare two images. It’s one of several handy tools from the Northwestern University Knight Lab. This Juxtapose images compares London’s Heathrow airport in 1945 and 2014. (Link to larger version.) […]
SummerPD Discount
And as a p.s. to the previous post. The House of #EdTech podcast is offering a discount on the SummerPD.com online workshops. This is a series of 10 lessons covering Twitter, Google Classroom, Screencasting, Canva […]
Cool Tools and OER
OER (Open Educational resources) is the topic of one of this year’s new lessons in the Cool Tools for School workshop. Open Educational Resources are freely available educational materials, ideally put together by people who […]
Cool Tools for School 2016-2017
We’re halfway through the 2016/17 Cool Tools for School online workshop. There are over 150 registrants this time round and about 110 active participants so far. A good turnout! If you’d like to read some […]
Powerful Book Lists & Handy Library Extension for Chrome
One response to the political chaos of the last few weeks has been the publication of many wonderful lists of books that encourage reading more diversely. The four lists below focus on works that celebrate […]