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19.1.11

More Public Domain "Full-Text" eBooks

Search the HathiTrust Database of eBooks
Includes titles from Google's book digitization program. Books that are available to all are listed as "Full View". If you search for a topic or book, you have the option of refining your search with "Full-Text" on the results bar on the left of the page. There are a number of eBooks available in this way. (If you find any gems, let the rest of us know!)


For example:
Children's Shakespeare

Voyages of Dr Doolittle

The tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter

Japanese fairy tales, by Lafcadio Hearn and others.

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eBooks,

Interesting trivia about Internet use and content for 2010

"Internet 2010 in Numbers"

Find out the number of users of various service, of email addresses sent, Facebook members, Twitter followers, etc. etc. An interesting snapshot of the online world.

Data sources and notes: Spam percentage from MessageLabs (PDF). Email user numbers and counts from Radicati Group (the number of sent emails was their prediction for 2010, so it’s very much an estimate). Website numbers from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user numbers and distribution from Internet World Stats. Facebook stats from Facebook and Business Insider. Twitter stats from Twitter (and here), TwitterCounter and TechCrunch. Web browser stats from StatCounter. YouTube video numbers from Google. Facebook video numbers from GigaOM. US online video stats from Comscore and the Pew Research Center. Flickr image numbers from Flickr. Facebook image numbers from this blog.
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2011 Notable Children's Books - ALA

Looking for new recommended titles for your collection?

ALSC announces 2011 Notable Children's Books

Annotated Version



18.1.11

Mathemusician" videos help teens see math as art

Some interesting "Stream of consciousness" videos related to Math concepts:

"I like most creative activities that involve making a lot of noise, mess, or both. Aside from composing, I love improvising on various instruments, drawing, sculpting, and other methods of making things. My main hobby is mathematics, with special interests in symmetry, polyhedra, and surreal complexity. This usually manifests as collaborative research in computational geometry and other areas of theoretical computer science, or as mathematical art."
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Looking for More BookTalk websites?

Try some of the following suggestions:

Bookwink Video Booktalks

Digital Booktalks (Created to encourage struggling readers)

Student-created booktalks

Booktrailer Repository
This site has booktrailers organized by grade level.
They are more like movie trailers and combine images, music and a voice over to "sell the book." You can actually download the trailers and have them play in a loop on a local machine. (http://gordonslibrarylinks.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-looping-playlist-for.html)

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"A Book and a Hug", a great book recommendation site

If you haven't seen it already, check out "A Book and a Hug", a great book recommendation site by Barb Langridge (her passion is getting kids excited about reading. She does the children's book recommendations for WBALTVChannel 11 in Baltimore and has her own cable television show, Books Alive - hint: use Firefox to view clips - nice interview with Mem Fox.) Books have concise reviews, extensive tags and recommended reading levels.

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abookandahug, books, clips,

Teen Learning 2.0 - Online workshop for teens

Teen Learning 2.0 from the California School Library Association

Teens can follow the series of lessons proposed on this site to learn more about some of the powerful Web 2.0 tools they have at their disposal. (Teachers could also use the lessons as the basis for their own learning. There is a downloadable teacher's guide on the site.)
The CSLA site is at  http://teenlearning.csla.net/

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TeenLearning 2.0,

17.1.11

School Library magazines via EBSCO

Here is a list of professional magazines for teacher-librarians. (ID and password needed for access from home.)

"Book Links"
A magazine designed for teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents and other interested adults in connecting children with books. Focuses on articles that target those people that educate children from preschool through eighth grade.

"Booklist"
Provides a guide to current print and nonprint materials worthy of consideration for purchase by small and medium-sized public libraries and school library media centers.

"Library Media Connection"
Publishes articles dealing with the operration of secondary school libraries and reviews of books & other media. A journal for junior and senior high school librarians.

"Library Talk" (Elementary focus)
Articles, review articles and commentary on libraries, librarians, technology and automation for elementary school librarians.

"School Library Journal"
The most complete provider of news, information and reviews for librarians and media specialists who serve children and young adults in school and public libraries.

"School Libraries in Canada"
Provides updates in the field of school librarianship & acts as the offical publication of the Canadian School Library Association.

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EBSCO, magazines, libraries,

"Weekly Reader" Magazines for Teens - via EBSCO

Magazines from "Weekly Reader" aimed at Middle and High School students. These are all viewable for free via EBSCO. (School ID and password needed for home access: see your TL for details.)

"Current Events"
Presents articles on current events covering politics, the environment, international relations & more. Written exclusively for students in grades 6-10.

"Read" (poetry, short stories, analysis, etc)
Literacy & Literacy Education; Literature & Writing (General); Secondary Education; Teen Interest. Organized into 2 sections: Literature and writing. "Read" explores literary elements, offers grammar and writing tips and features author interviews. (List of themes covered in 2010-11.)

"Current Science"
Teen Interest; Science (General) Presents articles covering all topics related to science for children at the middle-school level. (Gr 7-9)

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EBSCO, magazines,

Weekly Reader Magazine - via EBSCO

Weekly Reader materials incorporate a set of inferential thinking skills known as the Concepts of Comprehension©. This framework of 21 Concepts was developed by the Urban Education Exchange (UEE) as a means of helping educators teach reading-comprehension skills-explicitly, simply, and clearly. Weekly Reader is available for free online via EBSCO. Supplemental materials are available to classes that subscribe to the print version.


Weekly Reader - Pre K
PDF Full Text

Weekly Reader - Edition K
PDF Full Text

Weekly Reader - Edition 2
PDF Full Text

Weekly Reader News - Edition 3
PDF Full Text

Weekly Reader News - Edition 4
PDF Full Text

Weekly Reader News - Senior (Gr 5/6)
PDF Full Text

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Weekly Reader, EBSCO,

Curriculum Services Canada - Archived Webcasts for ProD

Literacy and Numeracy Webcasts/Webinars

"Curriculum Services Canada (CSC) is the Pan-Canadian standards agency for quality assurance in learning products and programs. We are an incorporated, not-for-profit organization that provides services including the development, implementation, evaluation, and accreditation of teaching and learning resources, and the delivery of professional learning opportunities online, using multimedia and social networking."


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October 21, 2010
Mature readers, writers, and speakers need to possess a basic knowledge of "how words work" and a set of strategies for approaching new words encountered throughout the day. Word knowledge has an impact on reading comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary. These skills, in turn, influence student success in all subject areas. This webcast explores effective instruction in word study. Students are encouraged to reflect on their learning, to collaborate with one another, and to use their knowledge of words in a variety of media and text forms. The students you will see in this webcast are learning to take a critical stance and developing the dispositions and skills they will need in order to be successful in the fast-paced, ever-changing, information-laden society in which they will find themselves.
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Courtesy Policy for eDevices - High School

Thought you might find this interesting...

Doing the Right Thing with Technology
"...Our colleagues were frustrated with the amount of time they spent asking students to put cell phones and MP3 players away. The administrators were frustrated at the increased time they had to spend disciplining repeat offenders. And some parents weren’t happy when their children had these expensive devices taken away from them in school. We realized that prohibition alone wasn’t working and that we weren’t teaching students appropriate uses of technology. We also realized that we were missing out on an excellent opportunity to integrate technology into our school curriculum..."
Full article here:

"A Québec, c'est tout un Carnaval"

Some Carnaval Sites to explore

Games, Activities, Kits

Webquest idea

NFB clip (12mins)

Quebec Winter Carnival - photos

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Carnaval, Quebec,


14.1.11

1 tool at a time - Using Audacity in the classroom

Welcome to One Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt
"One Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt" is a monthly webinar series. Each webinar will last 30 minutes and will focus on a particular tool. Classroom integration strategies will be highlighted and webinars are archived for viewing when convenient. (Next month is all about using Flickr.)

"Using Audacity" January Webinar: Participants will learn how to use Audacity, to record, import and edit sound including filtering and export a sound file in different formats for classroom and web use. Simple sound effects through to complex soundscapes can be created using audacity. The session will use classroom based examples.
You will need to use Firefox or Internet Explorer to view the archived version, not Safari.
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One Tool at a Time, Webinar, Audacity,

"Europeana: think culture" - Europe's digital library

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. "It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage."

Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 14.6 million items on Europeana. Paintings, music, films and books from Europe's galleries, libraries, archives and museums. These objects include:

  • Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
  • Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
  • Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
  • Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
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Europe, digital library, Europeana,

3 new library blogs - from Richmond TLs

Here are some blogs developed by TLs in Richmond for their libraries:
(Thanks for sharing these with us.)

Scott Jackson

Lori Teichman

Janice Novakowski:

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blogs, library

13.1.11

Wendy Phillips, reading selections from her award winning novel. (video)

Governor General's Award-winning author and MACL/SLAIS alumna Wendy Phillips spoke recently about her experience of turning her MACL thesis into an award-winning young adult verse novel, "Fishtailing". She also reads selections from the text. (starting at 5m:30s)

Her presentation has been archived and can be viewed by  following this hyperlink: http://tiny.cc/qbyct
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Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing,

Media Specialists Newsletter - Jan 2011

The "Special Interest Group for Media Specialists" provides the SIGMS SCANNER newsletter to its members to share current information related to technology for school librarians.

Issuu version of the January SIGMS Newsletter
(link opens small version of newsletter, click again for full-screen.) http://issuu.com/iste_media_specialists_sigsi/docs/sigms_the_scanner_jan_2011
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ISTE, SIGMS, newsletter

Media lessons -

DECONSTRUCTING a movie Ad
In this lesson, students analyse the ways in which advertisements for movies are designed to attract and communicate information to their intended audiences.

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See also

Media & Values Magazine (past issues)
Sample article

Teaching with Superheroes

Examining Superheros – Read Write Think website
Kent Manning talks about his "Superhero" lesson and points to some extensive material on the ReadWriteThink site.
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superhero,
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