Did you miss any of Joyce Valenza’s posts over the summer? The teacher librarian and tech maven has been busy during the break, exploring some interesting new updates and brand-new platforms on her School Library Journal blog NeverEndingSearch.
Curation interface MentorMob and Meograph, a new 4-D storytelling software (look for a review by SLJ columnist Jeff Hastings in September), are among the tools Valenza’s examined, all in the context of the potential relevance to her students and teaching at Springfield Township (PA) High School.
Of particular interest: Google’s online tutorials on better searching. Daniel Russell, a senior research scientist at Google, demonstrates some useful new techniques to share with both students and teachers. So take a look, if you haven’t seen.
Catch up on the rest of Valenza’s posts here:
The Google universe:
YouTube’s CC options for users and creators
YouTube introduces face blurring technology
Google calculates (more visibly)
Google’s Search by Image: Something to look at
Google launches a MOOC for learning search
New tools/resources:
Meograph launches its 4-D storytelling platform
MentorMob and me Beeclip EDU: scrapbooking for schools
Mightybell: a platform for curation, conversation & group learning
You’re gonna want to share ShareMyLesson
New from AASL: Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
New Creative Commons license chooser
Learning networks (professional development):
In PLN news #1: Jennifer’s PLN Starter Kit
In PLN news 2 . . .Mightybell TLChat
Information and digital literacy:
Infotention and digital citizenship
Twiplomacy and tools for social network research
School library as maker space:
About Kathy Ishizuka
Thanks for pointing that out, Cindy. We are antitdeng conferences that fall within our areas of expertise and share those insights gained through our Monitors. Through trial and error we discovered that each research analyst (there are 7 of us) can manage 2 Monitors. Due to our focus on strategic alignment with Intel’s needs, we are already pushing out most of what would normally come in as a research request, which frees up the time needed to select stories and publish the now 12 Monitors. The time we spend on Monitors allows us to serve over 12,000 subscribers at once instead of providing information for one person at a time. We have extensive RSS feeds integrated with a publishing tool built by an internal team that lets us filter the feeds with Boolean search strategies. This same tool self-populates fields with the source name, date, URL to the original article and the name of the selecter. We then create a robust abstract, and select which Monitors and categories are applicable. We are primarily responsible for our own Monitor, but there is some cross-pollination of topics. I can’t divulge all of the topics due to confidentiality concerns, but it is no secret that Intel is interested in consumer electronics, smartphones and mobile PC form factors including tablets. We have a Monitor for each of these.