Key topics of interest among our users? Research, apps, and the best Web-based tools.
Research/curation:
An Alternative Search Tool for Your Tablet
Wikivoyage launches Web Search: What’s Common Crawl All About?
Advanced Power Searching with Google
Model Library Curriculum shared on our PA DOE portal by Joyce Valenza
Kathy’s updated assessments
New from Pew: How Teens do Research in the Digital World
EasyBib’s New Extensions: two/too “easy buttons”?
UN History Project launched
My secret search/curating weapon
Crowdsourcing the Past – Georeferencing Website Puts Historic Maps in their Place | LJ INFOdocket
Why hair salons need to curate
Ebooks/reading:
Ebook toolkit: Easy-to-Use Applications for Creating Your Own
Get to Know Goodreads: Share this primer to the social reading site and help teachers and kids connect with great books
Ebook toolkit: Cool Tools for Multimedia Publishing
Kids’ Ebook Reading Nearly Doubled Since 2010, Scholastic Reading Survey Finds
School Library Thrives After Ditching Print Collection
Ebooks 2013: New leasing models, cheaper devices, more content
Libraries Use iPads and Apps to Ramp Up Storytime, but Concerns Remain
Boundless as a free text option
A Tale of Two Apps: Classic Picture Books into Digital
Ebook Toolkit: SLJ Reviews StarWalk Kids
Common Core:
Planning Common Core Lessons?: Free, Web-based applications can help align your plans with the new standards
The LC does CCSS
Exploring Common Core’s Informational Text… with Violent Video Games
Tools:
Annotate the Web with Popcorn Maker | screencast tutorial
Make Your Own Infographics | Screencast Tutorial
Making the Most of Video in the Classroom
The Best Sites for Collaborative Online Studying
Master the Web with Browser Add-ons
The “Cheap and Cheerful” Librarian, Melissa Techman, Shares Tips on Pinterest
U.S. State Department Launches Online Game to Aid English Learners
Hot Topic at Midwinter: Library Maker Spaces, Ideas for Cheap, Hands-On Fun
Mobile Apps Make Student Assessment Easy and Interactive
How would you fill an Edcanvas?
Zeen for digital magazine creation
Four tools for determining web cred
Comics Generators and Literacy: Edtech and Nontech Insights from Bill Zimmerman
Please Take This, Copy It, Use It, Improve It: A Digital Fandom Checklist
Webliography: Online Tools for Learning Languages on the Web | LJ INFOdocket
Melissa Techman presenting at the SLJ Summit
Apps:
SLJ’s Top 10 Apps: 2012
Best of Apps & Enhanced Books
A (LONG) List of Recommended Apps
Global Issues, Digital Perspectives
On Stage with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra
BiblioBoard’s Curated Collections for the iPad
SLJ’s Top 10 Apps: 2012
Big picture:
CES 2013 Top Trends for Schools: From adaptive ebooks to crowd-funded technology, products to look out for
The League of Extraordinary Librarians: SLJ’s latest tech survey shows that media specialists are leading the way
Media Literacy, Powerfully: A Model for School Librarian and Classroom Teacher Collaboration
MOOCs for kids too