Saturday, April 4, 2009

Library Thing Revisted- again

www.librarything.com has created new widgets AND has posted a contest for other librarything related widgets. Here's my updated one:

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Academic Earth- Intro to Computers



This is an introductory course from Harvard University. The lecturer is engaging. I believe many of my middle school students are capable of understanding this information. Academic Earth is an amazing free opportunity to be a non-enrolled student at some of the prestigious universities in our country.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Flip Cams

This is an excellent quick review/how-to for the flip cam. We have ordered 14 for the media center. What educational uses do you anticipate?

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

LibraryThing Revisted

I'm getting into LibraryThing. I'm enjoying finding others who share the same titles and am finding other like-minded middle school librarians. One borrowed idea is to tag books from my school's collection to alert students/staff, in my case "central." Here is a widget to show my collection:

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Twitter

Twitter has become mainstream. NPR featured it this afternoon, so I decided to set up an account for my school library. Follow me on Twitter: centralmedia

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

2009 Youth Media Awards Winner Calls

This is a glimpse into the notification of American Library Association award winners at Midwinter, 2009.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Arts Everywhere

This is another example of embedding a widget. National Geographic also has widgets for educational purposes.