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.

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?

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:

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

2009 Youth Media Awards Winner Calls

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