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November 19, 2011 - Fishkill NY

Additional tips & tools

• Readability - Browser bookmarklet that turns a cluttered busy web page into an oasis of calm. Strips out all the busy junk and displays the text only in your own customized format.
• ReadItLater Adds a ReadItLater bookmarklet to your toolbar. Find something you want to read, don't have time? Click ReadItLater and come back to it. Apps for many mobile devices. Very similar tool: Instapaper
• kwout - Handy way to clip a bit of a web page for display on another web page, wiki or blog.  Takes a screen shot of the area you select and gives you code to embed that image on your page.
• PDFmyURL - Turns the current web page into a PDF file for sharing or printing.
• Awesome Screenshot -  From Diigo, a free addon for Firefox that takes screenshots and lets you crop and do simple editing. 
• CaptureFox - Free Firefox screencasting tool captures whatever is happening on your screen. Can also add audio. 

Resources, Readings, Ideas, Tools

• Schoool Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come Ebook By Kristin Fontichiaro & Buffy Hamilton
• My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too Will Richardson
• 14 Ways K–12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza  Tech & Learning sept 27, 2009 
• Free Technology for Teachers - Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology
• NCTE The Definition of 21st Century Literacies 
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and
  cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of
  purposes
• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous
  information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
• ALA/AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner 
• Transliteracy & Libraries - Key source for keeping up with news, thoughts & ideas on transliteracy as related to libraries & schools. 
• Educators that Rock -  Nice summary of Buffy Hamilton's Media 21 project with 10th grade students.  
• Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book - Free PDF with lots of great lesson plans and ideas. 
• Super Book of Web Tools for Educators - Great collection of resources for all grade levels. 
• TechCamp Learning 2.0 - more to learn! 
• Media 21 Capstone Project notes - Buffy Hamilton's resource page

Where to look for more 2.0 tools (in no particular order!)

• Top 100 Tools - Jane Hart's lists of resources. 
• New Tools - Joyce Valenza's resource guide.
• I want to: How to do the things you want to do. Including many Web 2.0 applications. Phil Bradley's blog full of good stuff.
• Tech Chick Tips - fun podcast,  and great tools, resources and ideas. They also cover iPhone apps in every episode. Hey, what about us Droid users?? :-) 
• Learning in the 76542.0 - Lots of tools from the Tech Chicks
  
• AASL Best Websites for Teaching & Learning

Keeping up

I'm often asked what sources are useful for keeping up with what's going on in the field. Some suggestions, with a little bit of something for everyone.

• Neverending Search - Joyce Valenza - School Library Journal blog is a great place to start.
• Free Tech for Teachers - Richard Byrne - Free resouces and lesson plans for teaching with technology
• Blue Skunk Blog - Doug Johnson, Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato (MN) Public Schools
• Practically Paradise - Diane Chen - STEM magnet school
• K-M The Librarian - Sara Kelley-Mudie
• The Unquiet Librarian - Buffy Hamilton
• The Daring Librarian - Gwyneth Jones
• EdTech: Inspire, Connect, Engage, Create - Tom Barrett

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