According to Media Smarts: "Young Canadians need to be able to make good choices about privacy, ethics, safety and verifying information when they’re using digital media, and they need to be prepared to be active and engaged digital citizens. Based on our research on digital literacy education in Canada, USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE provides a
Lists, lists, and more lists. I keep saying that we librarian love lists. Edutopia provides a hyperlinked annotated filmography of films that talks about the importance of school libraries in Five Minute Film Festival: Reimagining the Library. The article goes from the general to the specific in its coverage of school libraries, with all the
For teachers who are looking for a way to mix creativity, computer skills and storytelling, there is a new and free app called Inklewriter. According to the web site: The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those branches back together again. It keeps track of which
If you liked my Eduslam at the Library Symposium about how to take notes using the Trash and Treasure method, just click on this hyperlink and it will take you to the slide-share site that provides more information than I gave in that 4 minute Eduslam. I also do have a Pinterest board and I
Photo via Flickr Creative Commons by UBC Learning Commons Edudemic recently posted about cool tools to help distracted students get down to work in The Five Best Study Aid Apps. In fact, they even list an app called Self Control. Apparently, technology can help the "Distracted Generation" concentrate. For example, Self Control allows
Maybe you think that Twitter isn't for you. You don't have time to compose those 140 character tweets, and who is going to read them anyway? Granted, Pinterest is much easier to use. There are book lists, book display ideas, and lesson plans that are easy to spot because Pinterest is graphic. Once you find
App Recommendations for Mobile Devices is a convenient way to find apps for various devices and learning activities. As you can see from the photo on the right, the website gives you a choice of searching either by device type or by learning activity. The app evaluation is done by experts in educational technology, (check
I just finished this how-to-use theinquiryprocess.ca video today. I hope that you can find the time to share this with teachers and library staff. I've also made a video on what inquiry based learning is involves. There are so many video out there on this, but I thought that after viewing quite a few, something
Sandra Bebbington, Julian Taylor and I are very excited to be working on a digital badging program for libraries and library personnel based on the Standards of Practice for Library Learning Commons in Canada...but we're not the only ones thinking of digital badging! Meg Sinclair shared this article with us about digital badging in the
We are always so quick to use Google, but there are other search engines (some of which are powered by Google) that may be more suitable for elementary school students. In this film, I demonstrate KidRex, Sweet Search 4 Me, KidsClick, KidzSearch.com, MyMunka, DuckDuckGo, and Searchy Pants. As I made the film, I discovered these
