Teaching Advice
Image by Charles Jeffrey Danoff. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Common’s licensing. All librarians/media specialists teach! Some are assigned specific courses, others work with classes...
View ArticleTIES Conference: Fast Forward
Registration is open for the TIES conference Fast Forward: Transforming Pedagogy with Technology December 14-16th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Focused on technology based educators, Fast Forward will...
View ArticleSocial Media: History Lesson
Image by Jason A. Howie. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing. Do you consider yourself to be a history buff? Would SixDegrees, Friendster and MySpace come to mind when you...
View ArticleGame-Based Makerspaces
Image by Sergey Galyonkin. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing. Gaming programs are growing in some libraries across the United States. In ALA’s blog The Scoop, Brian Mayer...
View ArticleHow Much Technology? Striking the Right Balance
Image by Mosi. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing. Many schools are laying plans now for some sort of staff development activities over the summer, many dealing with tech...
View ArticleUsing Twitter in the Classroom
Many schools are exploring the use of Twitter in the classroom for engagement and instruction. Recently Forbes suggested that Twitter is no longer optional but required for schools. But how to best use...
View ArticleAcademics: Heard of the Open Syllabus Project?
So, what do you get when you gather one million college course syllabuses off of university websites, extract some of their key components (metadata), dump it all into a big database, and add a...
View ArticleSix tools for creating videos on Chromebooks
Has your school made a switch to using Chromebooks? Wondering how to get the most out of the video features? This article features six video tools that work well with Chromebooks. WeVideo is the most...
View ArticleDay Seventy Seven of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!
I’m such a fan of fun new ways to learn things; and videos can be a great way of learning. Open Culture has a bunch of videos helping to introduce you, or your patrons, to twenty five different...
View Article2013 Fall MEMO Conference
Image by MEMO. Conference Logo 2013. Information in this post was provided by Laurie Conzemius, MEMO. The MEMO Fall Conference, It’s About the Learning, is being held on Oct 3-5 at St. Cloud’s River’s...
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