Vick's Picks

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

American Assoc. of School Librarians came up with 25 best websites for educators.
They're divided into 6 categories: Organizing, Content Collaboration, Curriculum Sharing, Media Sharing, Virtual Environments, and Social Networking.

Wonderful Web 2.0 stuff!

See the following link: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aboutaasl/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Wow! Jing and Screencast are so cool!

I love these tools! They are so user friendly. Here is a first attempt, and I mean a rough one, of showing how to use Discovery Education's Steaming service. Being loquacious, I went over the five minute time limit, so didn't get much into the explanation. Also, I noticed that on playback, it didn't show the video that I was seeing at the time of recording. It must be a copyright issue for Discovery Ed... Also, I noticed some of the screen was cut off when shown in Screencast but was all there during the Jing replay. Will have to do a lot more experimenting and editing before I use this in a real situation.
http://www.screencast.com/t/ip9k7oDrbW

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Library Book Cart Competition

OK, so even though we no longer have cat eye glasses and wear our hair in a bun, we librarians still can be a little odd. Just see for yourself in this Demco book cart competition video:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106561675

Free Webinar 7/23 on Cell Phones in the Classroom

Here's something worth considering. If you can't beat 'em join 'em! Why not use the technology that most teenagagers have on hand?

http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/index.php/2009/07/15/free-webinar-on-cell-phones-in-the-classroom/

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Virtual Author Vists via Skype

Joyce Valenza is spearheading an effort to set up a network of young adult and childrens authors who would be willing to virtually visit classrooms via Skype.

Is this a great idea or what?!

http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com/