Widgets for the School Library

Widgets are easy to add to your library blog or web pages.

You may have noticed the widgets that are the right side of this blog. You can read more about these and other good widgets by going to this site:
http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com/widgetworkshop

Webinar for TLs

http://bit.ly/30DcBn

Moving Forward: Engaging the 21st Century Learner
Event Time: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Eastern Standard Time

Are schools engaging today’s digital learner and empowering them with the skills and knowledge demanded by universities and employers in a global economy? As a library professional and educator, your interaction with the 21st century learner may hold the key to each student’s success in an increasingly competitive world.

Join moderator Michelle Begora, Program Director at Follett Software Company and a panel of library experts to find out:

* What new skill sets are important to move the librarian role forward.
* How new library technology is re-engaging digital learners.
* Why librarians are ‘information managers’ who help students become competitive and competent in today’s world.
* How librarians can improve student achievement by increasing the library-classroom connection.
* How to integrate social networking to bring students back to the library.

K12 Online Conference

2009 K-12 Online Conference Overview
http://k12onlineconference.org/

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2009 conference theme is "Bridging the Divide." This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote by classroom teacher and international educator Kim Cofino the week of November 30, 2009. The following two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17, over fifty presentations will be posted online to our conference blog and our conference Ning for participants to view, download, and discuss. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” are scheduled on our conference events page, and live events will continue in 2010 through twice-monthly "K-12 Online Echo" webcasts on EdTechTalk. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during and after the conference as well as asynchronous conversations. Over 120 presentations from 2008, 2007, and 2006 are available, along with archived live events!

Manitoba School Library Association Conference

The conference occurs on Friday, October 23rd at Glenlawn Collegiate.
Visit the wiki for a presentation by Mike Friesen, Heather Eby, Jo-Anne Gibson and Rhonda Morrissette
http://thewiredlibrarian.pbworks.com/SAG-2009
and that of Margaret and Tom Stimson at http://schlib.pbworks.com/Web20

MSLA SAG

View more presentations or Upload your own.

One presentation on Web 2.0 has been put online at Slideboom and on the Schlib wiki at http://schlib.pbworks.com/Web20

Cooliris

http://www.cooliris.com

Cooliris is a 3-D wall for browsing video and images. You can use it to browse the images & video on your computer or those that are on the web. There is a search function that can access some of the most popular source of images. Install the toolbar for easier access. Cooliris Preview is another useful application from Cooliris.

I'll Fight You for the Library

If you are in a school library, watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qXgPfMGG8E


"I'll Fight You For The Library" performed by Taylor Mali as part of the Page Meets Stage Series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City on April 29, 2009

Schlib on Twitter

The Twitterverse is full of people and organizations that will raise your awareness of resources and opportunities for learning.

Here are some directories of teacher-librarians and other educators who are active on Twitter
Twitter4Teachers
http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Librarians
Connexions
http://c4lpt.co.uk/connexions/

Check to see who these people and groups are following for additional tweeters that may make a difference for you.

BTW, Schlib is also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/schlib

Hundred Best Blogs for School Librarians

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/07/07/100-best-blogs-for-school-librarians/

This list of good blogs for school librarians includes those that focus on technology, reading, teens, projects and library culture. You could use a reader such as Google Reader or Bloglines to keep track of your favorite blogs.

Screenjelly

http://www.screenjelly.com/

"Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email. "

Yahoo Search Pad

Watch this video to learn more about it.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/searchpad/

Launched July 7/09, Yahoo's Search Pad is a note-taking application that automatically tracks and organizes sites you find on Yahoo

A.nnotate.com

http://a.nnotate.com/

Online document review and collaboration. You can upload, annotate, share documents made in Word, html or pdf formats.

Zotero 2.0

http://www.zotero.org/

Zotero 2.0 is out. Collect and manage information with it, cite sources, work collaboratively. See the video at the site above for more info. Zotero requires you to have Firefox 3.0+

Yauba

http://www.yauba.com

Yauba, still in beta, is a powerful search tool that finds the information you require in the form of web pages, social networking services like Twitter, images, rich media files, and many other file types. The company profile claims that Yauba "offers some of the most advanced Internet technologies, features, and innovations in the world." We've bookmarked this one for future use as it appears to be living up to the promise.

ShareTabs

http://sharetabs.com/

If you are one to share links with other staff or students, consider doing that with ShareTabs. Enter your list of recommended links in ShareTabs which will then create a unique url for your list. Your new ShareTabs link presents the user with a page with tabs, one for each of your suggested links. Thanks to @kjarrett Example: http://www.sharetabs.com/?classroom20live05022009

Quintura

You can save the tags from your search and then embed or share them. We used the keyword "Lwict" to generate this tag cloud

Latest Space Mission to the Hubble Telescope

Here are four good connections for learning more about the upcoming space mission to make final repairs to the Hubble Telescope
--A high quality interactive site: The space shuttle visits the Hubble Telescope http://tinyurl.com/ckhw7n
--Tweeting astronaut: http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
--The 150 Best Hubble Telescope Images Ever: http://2fotoz.blogspot.com/2009/05/150-best-hubble-space-images-ever.html Source: @guykawasaki
--Main Hubble Page - http://hubble.nasa.gov/

Geospatial Revolution Project

http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/index.html

The Geospatial Revolution Project will be a great resource for teachers of Social Studies/Geography and ICT. "The initiative is about the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact."

Source: Google Maps Mania http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/05/geospatial-revolution-project.html May 7, 2009.

How A Book is Made

http://bit.ly/owsCQ

Here is a short animated explanation of how a book is made. You'll meet all of the people who are involved from the author to the consumer.

Word Sift

http://wordsift.com

A "toy in a linguistic playground", Word Sift permits you to paste text, create a word cloud from that text, and search from that word cloud. For more features, watch the application of Word Sift in this YouTube Video http://bit.ly/16VT4G

Source: @plnaugle via @larryferlazzo

Brain Pop - Free Resources on Hand Washing

http://www.brainpopjr.com/health/bewell/washinghands/

This movie and accompanying lesson plans, game and handouts are free from BrainPop. They are suitable for use with elementary students. Thanks to Diana Dell for the tip. http://twitter.com/dianadell/status/1670979252

2009 H1N1 Influenza Resources for Schools

There is an enormous amount of resources pertaining to 2009 H1N1 that has come to light in the last week. Here are a few that might be of interest to your school:

Hooray for Handwashing
http://ow.ly/AIXB
Background information on health and hygiene, a story, posters and poems for children.

CDC Posters
http://www.cdc.gov/germstopper/materials.htm
Available in 9 languages - Be a Germ Stopper, Healthy Habits, Cover Your Cough [pdf]

Larry Ferlazzo's List - Swine Flu
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/25/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-swine-flu-outbreak/
Additions are made frequently. This blog has many other very good lists on other topics so you might wish to poke around when you're there.

Manitoba Education, Citizenship & Youth - Plan
http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/documents/pandemic_school.pdf
Manitoba school divisions and the province have addressed the worst case scenario with this document [pdf]

Health Map
http://healthmap.org/en
Global disease alerts for infectious diseases around the world. You can apply filters to restrict information to particular diseases. Lower on the page, you'll find related links to the latest news.

CBC News Item - Is there too much hype? - Video
http://bit.ly/HDTFX
Is there justified concern or is there too much hype about the potential of H1N1 to become a pandemic? The media looks at the media, once again.

Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health
http://bit.ly/OlN6o
The centre, in Winnipeg, houses one of two virology labs in North America that are playing a major role in today's events. This link will lead you to interesting photos and podcasts.

Any other items you think we shouldn't miss ? ? Please comment here.

Zorap

http://www.zorap.com/Landing.aspx

Zorap enables you to chat with friends/colleagues while sharing photos, slideshows, videos, or live video from your webcam in a secure manner.
Sources: @glovely http://twitter.com/glovely/status/1659521158 and TechCrunch 7-30-2008 http://bit.ly/12VqDP

Wallwisher

http://wallwisher.com/

Wallwisher is like a bulletin board in the hall except we could add video along with photos and notes if we wanted. There's a demo wall on the site.

Give your wall a name when you sign up. You'll receive a confirmation message giving you additional information that will enable you to share with friends, family or colleagues.

Wallwisher's wall page supports browsers IE7+, Firefox 2+, Safari 3+, Chrome 1+, and Opera 9+.

Best of the Web for April 2009

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/29/aprils-the-best-lists/

Larry Ferlazzo's recommendations come after he checks out each web resource. Though the purpose of his blog was to support ESL/ELL/EAL teachers and students, the wider education community is appreciating the blog at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ and recent Twitter contributions at
http://www.twitter.com/larryferlazzo

Twazzup

http://www.twazzup.com/

Twitter search tool with "powerful and easy to use interface." Source: @joevans http://twitter.com/joevans/status/1640010731

Best Embeds for Education

http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3082114

Great list of embeddable objects for classroom or library blogs or wikis. They include maps, games, photos, videos and much more.

NewsMap Has Moved

There's a new url for Newsmap, a great way to see how the news is viewed from different perspectives

Newsmap
http://newsmap.jp/

Exploration and Experimentation

Librarian Chick Wiki
http://librarianchick.pbwiki.com/
Links to all sorts of Web2.0 tools organized by category for easy access.

Learning Event Generators
http://www.newtools.org/showtxt.php?docid=737
One of a set of "generators". This one has 2500 possible activity challenges for learners to try. There are a couple of other learning event generators listed here. Source: EdTech Women of Web2.0 podcast25/03/09

Skitch: Snap, Draw, Share
http://skitch.com/
Skitch is The Internet Camera™ for Mac users who want or need to capture on-screen content. Click on the snap button to take a picture of the screen, then annotate or draw. The pic of the Nano speaker below was easily grabbed, an arrow was quickly added and the image was annotated in seconds. Look here for another way to use Skitch...as part of a screencast tool set - http://learningischange.com/



Google Earth Tour of the Great Lakes
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pr/ourlakes/gl_tour.html
The Great Lakes comprises the largest freshwater system in the world holding 18% of the world's freshwater supply. " To highlight some of the interesting coastal and subsurface features of the Great Lakes, the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has assembled a narrated Google Earth tour. "

Google News Timeline

http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

The Google News Timeline offers users the ability to search many different news sources across a wide range of time. "Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies." You can use arrows or drag along the timeline at Google News Timeline to move to news of another day. The date range can be modified. Source: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/04/google-news-timeline-check-it-out.html

Speaking Clubs & Student Research

Classroom speaking clubs can be a good setting for sharing student research.

Sometimes the speaking club role a student takes necessitates some mini research; sometimes his research needs to be in-depth. If roles rotate, students would be exposed to many ways of finding, creating and sharing information.

Totally Unbelievable Speaking Club wiki
http://mmya.pbwiki.com
This wiki was developed for a workshop and some of the handouts are included. Roles are described for a Gr 5-7 but could be modified for other levels and curriculum connections. Technology use is encouraged, but is optional.

TUSC Protopage
http://www.protopage.com/speaking
This protopage was meant to scaffold TUSC student research and to share good teacher resources.

Top Children's Literature News

Alltop, a directory of news postings on many topics, features this compilation of links to news about children's literature
http://kidslit.alltop.com/

Related Alltop pages are Kids and Books.

For Alltop hype, you could follow @guykawasaki on Twitter

Free eBook from ASCD

Perhaps you or some of your colleagues would like a copy of the new eBook, Engaging the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership from ASCD.
http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?productid=109103E4

This e-Book is available FREE from April 15 to May 6, 2009! Just add to your cart and check out as usual. You will NOT be charged. Non-members are also able to obtain the e-Book but will need to register at the checkout.

Do students really want to learn? Can schools and classrooms become joyful? Are there natural links between standard curriculum and what motivates students to learn? Explore these and other questions in this e-book collection of articles from Educational Leadership by renowned authors such as Carol Ann Tomlinson, Richard Sagor, Nell Noddings, Thomas R. Guskey, and Allison Zmuda.

Go2Web20

Go2Web20 is a directory for Web 2.0 tools and applications. It illustrates the volume of apps available. Use tag listing on right of Go2Web20 site to filter the apps that suit your needs.
http://www.go2web20.net/

Study Guides and Strategies

http://studygs.net/

Collection of study guides and strategies: Thanks to @dianadell for the suggestion

Search Alias - ggl.to

http://ggl.to

ggl.to is a web service that provides short, easily typed aliases for web searches for sharing. You may have to add http:// in front of the resulting ggl link that you create to have it work from Twitter, a blog or a wiki. This tool would be great for TLs or teachers who want to point to online resources for students or colleagues. ex - The following link was made from a search string including these keywords... teacher, earth day, interactive to create this link ... http://ggl.to/teacher-earth-day-interactive Thanks to @lessig for this tool suggestion.

Gadgets and More

Zoho Gadgets
http://gadgets.zoho.com/zc/index.do
Zoho Gadgets launched April 16th with the aim to connect Zoho applications with external applications.


Word Source
http://word.sc/
The first online social dictionary. Upload photos, tag, and rate your favorite words. Search for definitions simply by adding the word after the url - example: http://word.sc/favorite

All My Faves

This link collection for kids will be a good one to include in the fun section of your library web page or classroom wiki.

All My Faves: The Amusement Park of the Web
http://kids.allmyfaves.com/
The creators of All My Faves have made a colorful starting place for kids. Using the logos of 60+ sites, they have organized links to these sites so that they are easily accessed. Categories include "Virtual Worlds", animals, games, online books,
music, movies, and more.

Nature Online

The Internet offers us a rare glimpse into the lives of animals. Here are some webcam and video links you may like to share during Earth Month, Earth Week or Earth Day.

Eagle on Nest, British Columbia [Live]
http://bit.ly/151lJQ

Eagle in Flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APViUODDhT0


Live Rhinos - Africa
http://www.wildearth.tv/home

ProQuest Resources : Free Access Next Week

This is taken from the ProQuest page at http://www.proquestk12.com/landings/celebrate.shtml Bookmark this page to celebrate starting Monday, April 13!

ProQuest celebrates National Library Week : Worlds connect @ libraries

ProQuest to offer free, open access to ProQuest student resources during National Library Week!

* CultureGrams™ local experts document the culture and daily life of the world's peoples—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

* eLibrary® high-quality, high-interest, and highly usable full text and multimedia aligned to over 20,000 most-studied topics.

* SIRS Discoverer® a safe, kid-friendly online discovery environment for young learners from elementary to middle school.

Twitter's Growing Pains

Seems that Twitter has been having growing pains. Like those of other Twitter users, some of the Schlib Twitter submissions have vanished. Here are those posts that we rescued using TweetDeck:

Featured download at Curriki - good unit on Taking Meaningful Notes - http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_CTMS/TakingMeaningfulNotes

Downloadable media literacy kits. This one is about Endangered Animals http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/Books_Endangered%20Species/index.php

Attn Learners! MIT's free courses-lectures, handouts, exams, video. No registration required. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Canada's Jan Wong on BBC Woman's Hour [Podcast] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2009_09_thu.shtml

Good explanation of Twitter Trackers http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/7_top_twitter_topic_trackers.php

Each word in this dictionary is represented by a photograph http://www.thephotographicdictionary.org/home.html

Fast facts like this - Book Displays Increase Fiction Circulation over 90%, Non-Fiction Circulation 25% - at http://www.lrs.org/index.php

Like that the Cloudlet can be switched off in Twitter and that tag clouds can be created for postings or authors http://www.getcloudlet.com On Twitter-@SearchCloudlet

ReTweet @AngelaMaiers: More free ebooks, comics here - http://www.wowio.com/index.asp

Games for Earth Day http://dsc.discovery.com/games/games.html Added to Diigo Earth Day list at http://www.diigo.com/list/schlib/earth-day

Design your own Twitter background at http://www.freetwitterdesigner.com

ReTweet @Philbradley RT @Danacea Oh dear Gods - simply the best £$%^ dictionary/thesaurus I have ever seen: http://bit.ly/12ridK

Cool Tools for Library Webmasters [slideshow] http://www.slideshare.net/fichter/40-plus-cool-tools-for-library-webmasters

From Edutopia: Virtual Libraries Are Teaching Treasures - http://www.edutopia.org/online-libraries-collections-digital-resources

UEN - Super Site for Teachers

Visit the Utah Education Network site at http://www.uen.org/k12educator/ where are many good resources for K-12 teachers everywhere. The site is searchable by grade and subject. The UEN collection also includes timely suggestions for topics such as those assembled for the upcoming EarthDay http://www.uen.org/general_learner/earthday/index.shtml

The UEN Earth Day set has been added to our Earth Day list at
http://www.diigo.com/list/schlib/earth-day

Bibliography Tool

Ottobib
http://ottobib.com
Make a bibliography just by entering the ISBN. Select from MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, BibTex, Wikipedia styles. It's free.

Visuwords

http://www.visuwords.com/
Sample search : http://www.visuwords.com/?word=literature
Online graphical dictionary. Good for demonstrating relationships amongst words, parts of speech, and definitions.

Long List of Web Resources

Perhaps some of these sites or services will be of interest to you and your teachers.

Read Aloud America 2009 Booklists
http://www.readaloudamerica.org/booklist.htm
Book lists are available for adults and all levels in K-12

BreadArt Project
http://www.breadartproject.com/
Just for fun, take a slice of virtual toast at the BreadArtProject site, add your art, submit it to a gallery at FeedingAmerica, sponsors of the project.

TinEye Reverse Image Search Engine
http://tineye.com/
Submit an image to find its source. This service is in beta.

Fun, Interesting, Educational Things On Twitter
http://tinyurl.com/c8a4yr
From the Free Technology for Teachers blog on Sunday, March 29, 2009

ClassicPoetryAloud
http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/
Great for Poetry Month. These classic poetry podcasts are accompanied by the text of the poem that is being read.

Red River Rising : Manitoba Floods
http://bit.ly/LPxho
Archived radio and TV clips at CBC » link to Red River Rising: Manitoba Floods|CBC Archives . For current views and news, go through the Winnipeg Free Press to http://bit.ly/9Veug . You could also follow @redinwinnipeg at Twitter

Twittering YA Authors
http://www.mitaliblog.com/
Look for the entry of Friday, March 27, 2009

30 Ways to celebrate Poetry Month
http://tinyurl.com/dg24hq
Good ideas for the library and the classroom. Thanks to @GottaBook on Twitter

Patagonia:Footprint Chronicles
http://bit.ly/4jMGS1
Interactive. Tracks the social and environmental impact of products from design to you. This item is in our Earth Day link set at Diigo.

Where The Wild Things Are: Trailer
http://tinyurl.com/dlje5e
If you grew up with Maurice Sendak's beloved book, you might like to watch this. RT@npbooks

April is Poetry Month
http://www.diigo.com/list/schlib/poetry
Here are some links for that celebration. Look in the Poetry – List at the url above [Diigo]

Scholastic Videos
http://bit.ly/IpKMl
Lots of author readings & video book trailers at Scholastic. This particular link will take you to the interview with Christopher Paul Curtis. There is also a good related book trailer on the site. Other interviewed authors include Phillip Pullman, Pam Munoz Ryan, Mark Teague, Maya Angelou and more.

Elements of a Story
http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/index.html
Interactive site helps students learn about story "ingredients"

April is Poetry Month

If you are looking for poetry resources on the 
Internet, there is information for you
on the Schlib Poetry List at Diigo
 http://www.diigo.com/list/schlib/poetry .

It could be that you have other favorite sites 
 use during the upcoming
Poetry Month. Please share those by adding a 
comment for this blog entry. (If by e-mail -- schlib at merlin.mb.ca )

AASL Learning Standards in Graphical Form

Consider these models of the AASL Learning Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/tlmag/Dec08p47-53.pdf

Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/user/schlib/

Diigo is the social bookmarking tool that just got a Schlib workout. The links from our tools page, kidlit page and wiki sidebar have been added to the links from e-mail messages written in the last couple of months. As time goes along, more of the archived emailed links will be added to Diigo. We'll start by adding Poetry Month and Earth Day links from amongst those archived. We'll also get some more good links up there for the library techs. Future blog entries can be created directly from Diigo which will save time.

So..now there's a Schlib wiki, a listserv with an e-message archive, a blog, a Netvibes portal, a Twitter account and a social bookmarking site for quick access to links.

Schlib on Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/user/schlib/

iLibrarian

Visit http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/10-websites-for-book-lovers/ to see the recommended book lover web sites. Don't overlook the left sidebar with other popular postings such as:

• 40 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians – Part Two
• 4 Ways to Spice up your Presentations
• A Librarian’s Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides

Thanks to @courosa on Twitter for pointing to these resources.

Tapped In

There is a TappedIn session for Librarians today. More about that further down this message.

A quick read of a recent TappedIn session transcript led to these links:
Shmoop
http://www.shmoop.com/
If you're looking for more information about Literature, American History and Poetry, visit Shmoop. Here's a note from the organization..."We wanted to let you know
that we have instructions for how to cite Shmoop content (in MLA, ALA, or Chicago styles). Shmoop is an academically credible resource, produced by Ph.D.
and Masters students from Stanford and Berkeley. We want students and teachers to cite Shmoop with pride and confidence." http://www.shmoop.com/help/cite-shmoop

WigFlip
http://wigflip.com/
Points to toys and tools on the web. If you feel like experimenting with some of the newest Web 2.0 tools, check it out.

Classtools.net
http://classtools.net/
"Classtools.net provides free, customizable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites. "
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Targeting Librarians! eBooktalks -Why, How, When
March 18th, 2009 4:30 PM PDT U.S. Pacific Time [GMT-08:00]
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
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Transcripts of Past Sessions [pdf]
http://tappedin.org/archive/transcripts/
If you miss the above session or any other, you can still learn from it. The transcripts will eventually be online at TappedIn.
Reading the transcripts of TappedIn is akin to reading your great-grandmother's old letters. There's always something of value, but you have to skim through a lot of chit-chat to get to it.
Practical suggestions are always shared and often blended with links to resources that you might never hear about otherwise.

Calendar of Tappedin Sessions
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/do/CalendarAction
There are lots of other sessions upcoming that will be of interest to teachers at all levels and library staff members. Register if you'd like to participate in a session. It's a simple process.

You can follow at least one of the leaders on Twitter. Sue Roseman @sroseman

Ideas to Inspire

The Ideas to Inspire site is the result of teacher collaboration combined with the extra effort of Mark Warner [http://twitter.com/markw29]

http://ideastoinspire.co.uk/

Here's Mark's description: Ideas to Inspire is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas. The presentations are a collaboration amongst lots of fantastic teachers around the world.

BCTLA Bookmark Journal Online

It used to be that we'd look forward to receiving each print copy of the BCTLA Bookmark Journal in our school division library. It was one of the few journals that escaped the three year weeding rule that we applied to other periodicals. The stack of Bookmarks was protected in a secret place and often shared with our TLs.

Now you can download your own copy of the BCTLA Bookmark Journal at http://bctf.ca/bctla/pub/bookmark.html

Tag Cloud

Tag Crowd
http://www.tagcrowd.com/
Similar to Wordle. Here's a sample tag cloud for the Infozone

Who is Following You?

TwitterSheep
http://twittersheep.com
Gathers a word cloud based on the bios of your followers. Clearly Schlib at Twitter is being followed by the right people:) The words "librarian", "school", "geek", "professor" and "teacher" were also in the cloud but do not show in the image below. Thanks to http://twitter.com/kjarrett for the site suggestion.

Graphic Books Bestsellers - List

Did you know that the New York Times has added a new best seller list to the collection?

It's the Graphic Books Bestsellers list. The March 5th announcement is at http://bit.ly/bMY1k

Teachers' Domain

You might wish to look at the Teachers' Domain at http://www.teachersdomain.org/ where you will find many excellent resources such as interactive web resources, lesson plans, pdf support files, Quick Time video excerpts, and activities for K-12 in many subject areas . You will be required to register the first time you use Teacher Domain. If you cannot find your school in the registration process, just add it. There is no cost to register. More than 333,000 educators in 177 countries use Teachers' Domain products, apparently.

The site is searchable by keyword and grade level.

The literacy web site component at Teachers' Domain was announced in the School Library Journal blog on March 4th. Sources: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6641985.html and http://twitter.com/sljournal/status/1285953612

Social studies topics covered in the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection include: Mayan Civilization and more . Science topics include: Action/Reaction, Adaptations for Surviving Winter, Continental Drift and more.

More About Twitter

CNN Video
Why Twitter is All the Rage
http://bit.ly/r9xUh

Twitter for Teachers
http://twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com/
Twitter enables "keep it short" social networking. The Twitter for Teachers wiki provides a directory of twittering educators. If you are a twittering educator, you also may like some of the Twitter apps at http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/socialmedia/twitterapps.html. The Schlib Twitter is at http://twitter.com/schlib. Look at Learning Professionals on Twitter for even more tweets from educators. Lurking is allowed.

News Organizations on Twitter
http://bit.ly/3wGg

Celebrities on Twitter
http://bit.ly/AEffO

Twitter Song

MSLA LIT Forum

The Manitoba School Library Association held the LIT Forum in February. Several forward thinking teachers/teacher-librarians Heather Eby, Rhonda Morrissette, Jo-Anne Gibson and Michael Friesen formed a panel that aimed to inspire others to use Web 2.0 tools and techniques in their classrooms and libraries.

You can access the links recommended by these professionals at the Wired Librarian blog

PBS Widgets

Thanks to @joycevalenza at Twitter.com, we heard about the National Geographic and PBS widgets that can be easily added to your blog or web pages. Look at the sidebar here at the Schlib blog at http://schlibtools.blogspot.com to see an example. The particular widget in the Schlib sidebar leads educators to Shakespeare resources.

Go to http://www.pbs.org/teachers/activitypacks/index.html

Totally Unbelieveable Speaking Club

The TUSC speaking club resources are available at http://www.protopage.com/speaking and at http://mmya.pbwiki.com.

New today ... role descriptions are now available in French. Special thanks to Ella Munro.

Tips and Tools

Study Stack
http://www.studystack.com/Home.jsp
Has been recommended by Larry Ferlazzo at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
"Study Stack lets you easily create (after you register) flashcards, hangman games, word searches, and many more activities."
Larry Ferlazzo's site is a source of endless and valuable recommendations of resources and tools
Here's another one that he highlighted recently:

Utah Education Network: Interactive Sites
http://www.uen.org/k12student/interactives.shtml
This is a handy directory of web sites that encourage student involvement.

Tips and Tools

10 Quick Ways to Print Your Own Calendars
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-quick-ways-to-print-your-own-calendars-online/
All ten tools mentioned at the site above are free. Source: http://twitter.com/c4lptnews Jan 3, 2009

Kido'z [beta]
http://kidoz.net

	Safe & free internet browsing for kids.
	Easy to use. Kids don't need to know how to read or write.
	Direct access to the best sites, videos and games for kids on the net.