The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We're planning our 2023 Library 2.0 Mini-Conferences : everyone is invited to participate in our free Library 2.0 com and on the Library 2.0 Webinars: Dr. Steve Albrecht posts twice-monthly Library "Service, Safety, and Security" podcasts and blog posts that are available for free on Library 2.0. YouTube channel.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2024

These tools are: Book Finder Book Summarizer Library Programming Assistant LOC Authority Record Finder Talk to a Book Search Query Optimizer ESL Reading Passage Creator We'd love your feedback--there's a link on the page to give it. So it's a little longer than we plan on doing each week, but OH!, there were lot of news and ideas to cover.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

My experience with the school library and book choice tension I have over 1,000 books in my American international Christian school classroom in southern Taiwan where I teach English Language Arts (8th), Yearbook (10th-12th), US History (11th), and British Literature (12th). Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A few years ago, while working as a teacher librarian at Templeton Elementary School in Oregon, I had the opportunity to redesign the school’s library website to include digital resources for the students to use as part of a shift to 1:1 iPad learning. Identify the content needs of the district.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 2, 2022

Also referred to as a virtual or online whiteboard, a digital whiteboard is a software solution that replicates the functions of an analog whiteboard. All that you share in a classroom or during a meeting, others can view in real-time or later online. What Is a Digital Whiteboard? . Collaborate remotely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Librarian Karen Scott challenges us with some non-traditional practices to get kids interested in reading including organizing her library by genre and using social media and graphics to inspire a love of reading.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Students hungry for higher education even when few colleges cared much about them—they could go to a library, use Schlachter’s books and find money to fund their academic ambitions. She was the first person to earn a doctorate in library science from the University of Minnesota. So Schlachter started Reference Service Press.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The reality is often much more mundane, as classrooms that meet even the most basic of digital information standards still qualify as being a Smart Classroom, Lab, or Lecture Hall. The post Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli appeared first on ViewSonic Library. and whiteboard.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The shift to more virtual meetings in businesses have also led to another set of problems that impact productivity and efficiency. This can be especially advantageous in situations where meetings are arranged at short notice. Overall, these monitors save precious time and allow employees to focus on the meetings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

What we’re seeing is exactly what we wanted to see,” says Amy Kershaw, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), referring to the impact of the C3 grants, along with a number of other changes state leaders have made to support families and programs. “We We see more programs opening. Not this time.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From research organization tools and academic research softwares to word editors and reference managers, you can definitely take your academic research to the next level by making web technologies part of the way you go about doing your research. Popular among these platforms are Internet Archive, Google Books, and Open Library.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As libraries work to scan their collections, they tread carefully around books published after 1923 and likely to still be under copyright. Making sure a work meets all the requirements takes time, and depends on accurate data, for instance. copyright code , which hasn’t gotten a lot of public attention. If Kahle et al.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Almost all of these tools provide extra features beside online search including, for instance, the ability to create personal libraries where you can save and organize your books, automated citations generation , social networking with other researchers, collaboration, and many more. Only you can see the articles in your library.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

All that annotating that happens during class is saved in our secure OneNote Class Notebook and is available for my students to refer to after class. I created a OneNote Class Notebook for each of these groups and I can put program information for them in the content library and easily update it as needed. Create a Collaboration Space.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

billion of cited references." WorldCat WorldCat is one of the largest online library catalogs that connect thousands of libraries collections into a single platform allowing you to search various libraries from a single search box. Users get access to thousands of titles, millions of author profiles and 1.7

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

In your district, you may refer to them as IT specialists, Coordinators for Instructional Technology, Technology Facilitators, Curriculum Specialists, or something else that infers big brains, quick minds, and the ability to talk to digital devices. Students researched online as often as in the library. 1:1 became a reality.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 21, 2021

"Serving Library Patrons with Mental Health Issues: Support, Empathy, and Safety" Part of a special Library 2.0 When we refer to people as if they were an illness--"she's a schizophrenic, he's a diabetic"--it can feel dehumanizing and can unfavorably influence interactions with the individual.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2022

By Dr. Steve Albrecht I posted this Library 2.0 There are no guarantees of safety and nothing is shooter-proof, but these concepts might make a life or death difference if you can consider them and/or put them in place at your library: Access control matters. It’s not a bad idea for the library to pay for similar oversight.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In order to set up a perfect viewing distance, first be aware of ocular accommodation and convergence, which reference involuntary eye functions when too close to an object. When it comes down to it, the screen’s angle is more or less its height in reference to the user. A keyboard has a lot more influence than meets the eye.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Make it official by planning out the details such as meeting time and structure. The meeting location will be critical, as you’ll need gaming-ready workstations on which to hone your gameplay. Once your esports club is formed and starting to meet regularly, you’ll want to start thinking about when and where you’ll compete.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Broadly, the metaverse refers to the creation of virtual worlds or spaces in which social interactions can occur. There would no longer be a need to wait for facilities to become available or find the ideal time to meet up because physical meetings and collaborative sessions are replaced by virtual meet-ups.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2021

In your district, you may refer to them as IT specialists, Coordinators for Instructional Technology, Technology Facilitators, Curriculum Specialists, or something else that infers big brains, quick minds, and the ability to talk to digital devices. Students researched online as often as in the library.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Mentoring Minds , a leading provider of K-12 instructional and critical thinking materials, announces the availability of the Mentoring Minds Resource Library, a mobile app comprised of resources to support instruction and promote student success. The Mentoring Minds Resource Library includes over $1,000 worth of content, priced at $2.99

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Emily Wilt, a high school library media specialist in Indiana who runs her library’s TikTok account , meets with upperclassmen at the start of each school year to talk about research best practices. Whoever shows up on your For You page seems like your friend,” she says, referring to TikTok’s recommended content for each user.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2020

My name is Sean Clark, bearing the official title of Technology Instructional Aid , though most of the time around the school, I am referred to simply as ‘the tech guy.’ They’re learning cursive and concurrently expected to raise their words-per-minute on the QWERTY layout, possibly both in the span of one week.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 2, 2021

"Serving Mentally Ill Patrons: Support, Empathy, and Safety" Part of a special Library 2.0 series with Dr. Steve Albrecht & Dr. Dr. Gina Simmons Schneider OVERVIEW : A 60-minute training webinar presented by Library 2.0 Library staffers often encounter patrons along a wide-ranging behavioral scale. TO REGISTER: Click HERE.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

She started the practice during COVID-19 lockdowns, when she couldn’t get to a library or coffee shop to work among other people as she had done in the past. That practice is called “body doubling,” and it refers to having a partner watch you do a task that involves focus to keep you in the zone. “A I’m an extrovert,” she says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ranganathan—often referred to as the Father of Library Science—proposed Five Laws of Library Science in 1931, a theory of principles of operating a library system. or even with the whole class during a morning meeting. I have watched students lead peers to new sections of our library to explore new genres.

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ProfHacker

MAY 25, 2016

I was amazed by how much of the ’80s US pop culture references made sense to the (about half-American, half-non-American) audience – I honestly only got about half of them, but his excitement was still contagious. After lunch, we had AMICAL committee meetings.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 5, 2021

Behavioral change refers to small and consistent habits, such as reading and understanding the Terms and Conditions and other policies of any app you or your students might be using. That’s why educators have to meet them halfway and work as a team for the good of the entire organization.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

With the purchase of Hoonuit’s courses and learning delivery system, Infobase meets educators where they are, providing the knowledge they need to take action and help their students—and themselves—excel.”. Closing Learning Gaps and Using Technology to Enhance Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

Keys to Investing – First, students meet with a financial advisor to understand risk and reward. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “ sponsored blog post.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2022

In your district, you may refer to them as IT specialists, Coordinators for Instructional Technology, Technology Facilitators, Curriculum Specialists, or something else that infers big brains, quick minds, and the ability to talk to digital devices. Students researched online as often as in the library.

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Digital Citizenship Chromebook Laptops Training 280

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

WorldCat WorldCat is one of the largest online library catalogs that connect thousands of libraries collections into a single platform allowing you to search various libraries from a single search box. you can either directly access online content that’s openly available or click on a link for a library near you.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This is a GREAT week for library learning and conversations! Then our fourth annual (and free) Future of Libraries conference, Library 2.014, starts on Wednesday, October 8th, at 10:00am US-Eastern Time with the opening keynote by conference co-chair Dr. Sandra Hirsh from the School of Information at San José State University.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2021

The first Library 2.021 | Seguimos Creando Enlaces conference, " Civic Engagement in Action, " takes place next Thursday and Friday, March 25th and 26th. The final hour-by-hour schedule has been published and lots of details are below. Be sure to register (free) in order to attend.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2021

There’s even a reference to it in President Biden’s new American Families Plan , which asserts that “far too many students enter college but do not graduate” and notes that “only approximately three out of five students finish any type of degree or certificate program within six years.” How do we think about this from a systemic perspective?”

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