Resource for 21st Century Librarians

This is a great e-book resource for librarians. It contains lesson plans for using 21st Century tools.  It is free and downloadable.

Author: Marilyn P. Arnone From the Creative Minds of 21st Century Librarians is CDL’s first e-book project made possible in part through an IMLS grant awarded to CDL in 2008 to update the AASL standards in the S.O.S. for Information Literacy database. This 275-page free downloadable resource contains dozens of lesson plans that implement AASL’s Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in the context of the curriculum. Contributing authors include more than 30 teacher-librarians. The book, edited by Marilyn P. Arnone, Ruth V. Small, and Barbara K. Stripling, was more than a year in the making and features a foreword by Barbara Stripling and graphic design by Marguerite Chadwick-Juner. If you are looking for creative ideas that target the standards to implement in your school library, this book will help you jumpstart the process. Download the publication and please pass on this link to your colleagues in the school library field.

A Teacher's Thoughts: Best Sites to Connect with Other Classes

This blog list some great sites for global collaboration and project based learning.

A Teacher's Thoughts: Best Sites to Connect with Other Classes: "If you are like me, you have big dreams of building an awesome connection with another classroom (maybe in your state or even around the wor..."

11 Techy Things for Teachers

From the Free Technology for Teachers Blog: 11 Techy Things for teachers to try this year. I have personally used 9 out of the 11 and love all of them. I several wikis on wikispaces and this blog. I've used Animoto to create great videos - you can get a teacher version which allows for longer videos.  I have a Twitter account and use Diigo and Delicious for social bookmarking. I've also gone beyond Google and just recently participated in a Wolfram Alpha webinar. In addition, I use Google docs and plan on trying Aviary and TodaysMeet.

Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year via kwout

Glogster Widget

This is from the Wikispaces blog. It's an easier way to embed a glog into your wikispace pages.


New Glogster Widget

from Wikispaces Blog by Carole

The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that we’ve added a new option to your Widget menu. If you have a Glogster account, now you can embed your posters directly into a wiki page, without ever leaving Wikispaces, and without having to copy any code.
Here’s how it works:

1. Go to your page and click Edit.
2. Click the Widget icon.
3. Choose Poster from the Widget menu, then click the Glogster EDU logo.
4. Enter your Glogster nickname and password, and click Log In.
5. Pick the glog you want, and either Insert it into the page, or View a preview.
6. Save the page.

It’s that easy!
We’re pretty jazzed, because this is the first widget we have that lets you embed media without copying and pasting complicated code and without leaving Wikispaces. But it won’t be the last. Let us know how it’s working for you with a comment below or an email to help@wikispaces.com.

MLA and APA

This is so true. Do we really need all that formatting?

The Fischbowl: Dear MLA and APA via kwout