Read Twitter as a Daily Newspaper

http://paper.li

paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.

A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7!

Here's a good example from a Manitoba educator http://paper.li/joevans

Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide

This recent item comes from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington.
http://www.imls.gov

" This discussion guide is the result of a two-day meeting
in which a diverse group of colleagues with many
perspectives on the future came together to share and
debate."

http://www.imls.gov/pdf/DiscussionGuide.pdf

Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports

Free Technology for Teachers has posted some ideas for book reports. Each suggestion requires that students use technology to share the book experience.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/five-alternatives-to-traditional-book.html

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.