Category Archives: Digital Publishing
Hello, ACAMIS!
I am delighted to be presenting at the Association of China and Mongolia International Schools in Guangzhou, China, this weekend. Here are the resources we used in the sessions. Friday Session #1: Crowdsourcing an eBook Slides Past crowdsourcing eBook projects … Continue reading
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Canva: Design for Non-Designers
Canva.com, a new, mostly-free graphic design tool designed for those of us whose yearning to make great design exceeds are ability, is exploding in popularity in Also men that take nitrate medicines cannot use generic levitra usa new.castillodeprincesas.com these drugs … Continue reading
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Hello, SLAV!
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by pellethepoet [Public domain] Good morning! Today in Melbourne (look how I say that like it’s an everyday, normal experience — it is not!!), I’m working with the School Library Association of … Continue reading
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Longwood Summer Literacy Institute
I am delighted to be speaking this morning at the Longwood Summer Literacy Institute at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. What a beautiful campus and town! It’s not every day you get to sleep a room with furniture once used … Continue reading
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Essay Collection on Teacher Librarianship
Congratulations to Jennifer Branch, Joanne De Groot, Kandise Salerno, and their University of Alberta students on the publication of an essay collection on teacher librarianship! Read it for free here! When taken in the proper dosage, cialis without prescriptions … Continue reading
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CCSS and Digital Testing
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Håkan Dahlström I’ve long worried that schools are focusing so much on acquiring print texts for Common Core State Standards alignment that they’re overlooking the fact that the standardized tests from … Continue reading
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Free Book on Ed Tech Policies, Practices, Procedures
On behalf of my co-teacher Jeff Stanzler, we are pleased to announce our yearlong ED 504 class project — a book for teachers about ed tech policies, practices, and procedures — has been published! We’re printing copies on our campus … Continue reading
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Salon.com: Reading Comprehension Onscreen May Not Be As Deep
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by jblyberg Salon.com has a fabulous long-form article summarizing a series of studies about retention, comprehension, and memory as it relates to reading onscreen versus in print. I have long had a … Continue reading
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Video/Audio: NYPL’s Anthony Marx at Cornell: “Do We Need Libraries?”
Next term, I’ll teach Professional Practice in Libraries and Information Centers, a course for all kinds of future librarians and archivists. It’s sometimes a challenge to find provocative content that addresses all of their points of view: public, academic, and … Continue reading
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1918 Influenza Encyclopedia
Congratulations to the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library for their launch of the Influenza Encyclopedia, a digital encyclopedia capturing primary sources and information related to the 1918-1919 flu … Continue reading
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