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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries.

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How Schools Can Respond To The Age Of Information

TeachThought - Learn better.

Libraries for centuries have acted as points of media aggregation that were intellectual and cultural and functioned as lodestones of information. The internet has changed things again, offering virtual libraries and fingertip-access to collective human information lodes. Remember Google Glass? Everything Old is New Again.

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Showing #OpenGratitude for: ISKME and OER Commons

Iterating Toward Openness

In 2007, ISKME launched OER Commons, its digital public library and collaboration platform, informed by the organization’s pioneering efforts in knowledge management and educational innovation. ISKME’s integration services include integrations with learning management systems, Clever, Google Classroom, and other systems.

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Chrome Can: Creating eBooks with Chromebooks!

Dr. Shannon Doak

A Google Doc can be saved as a PDF. The second way to save a Google Doc as a PDF is to choose this option when printing the Google Doc. Students can then use Google Docs to create their eBooks and then save the file as a PDF. in September 2007. The free version allows you to have one library with 40 books.

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Apps: a call for nominations and a round-up of review ources

NeverEndingSearch

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

Erie County Community College, or EC3PA, has used federal pandemic funding to make tuition free and is offering courses and services virtually and in person at a vocational high school, branches of the county library system and an education center run by nuns.

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