• Terrific curation tool. Create topic oriented collections of resources.
• Share your favorite resources, articles, web tools, whatever interests you.
• Use it to create guide to resources for specific projects.  
• Students can collect research resources for projects, collaborate with others and add their own notes about resources.
• A Senior Shares Why She is Falling in Love with ScoopIt
• Note: Pinterest ideas can work equally well in ScoopIt  

• News for North Country Librarians  (by Paige!)  
• Senior Project Diegeo Rivera
• AHS Scoop.it - Nikki Robertson's resources for school staff  

• Another fun curation tool, this one is very graphical and oriented towards sharing. 
• Your Pinterest home page will be full of the items 'pinned' by the people you are following. 
• Many are using it to collect resources for class projects, highlighting new materials in the library, encouraging others to repin content and share.  
• Students can create a reading board, sharing their favorite books and other materials.
• Create a "who am I" board. 
• History project - each student take a decade and create a board of materials related to that decade.
• Encourage students to comment and share ideas.  
• Or a video playlist board. 
• Create boards of content geared towards parents - resources to help them help their kids. 
• Events, crafts, seasonal resources, project resource boards..... 
• T4LT Pinterest - Quick intro video 
• 37 Ways Teachers Should USe Pinterest 
• 10 Ways to Use Pinterest in the Classroom 

• Frog Unit (Lauren Abad) 
• February Archive (you'll find tons of great resources by homeschooling parents)
• Tech Tools for Work (great resources from Kia Brooks, Tech Coordinator for an elementary school) 
• AV Board - great for saving links back to videos. Lots more great boards here.  

• Both Learnist and MentorMob let you curate learning materials. Kind of a "playlist" for learning resources. 
• Could step students through materials you want them to cover
• Students could create their own lists of resources 

• Chemistry Learnist
• Using Learnist in the High School Classroom
• 10 Ways to Use Learnist in the Classroom

• Both Learnist and MentorMob let you curate learning materials. Kind of a "playlist" for learning resources. 
• Could step students through materials you want them to cover
• Students could create their own lists of resources 

• MentorMob: Organizing Learning Opportunities
• Polly's WordPress Tips

• Turn your social media feeds into a newspaper. Add your twitter account and let paper.li find the best content from everyone you follow and turn that content into your daily newspaper. Handy! 
• Uses other social media and topical news resources too.
• Students could us this to create a custom paper for keeping up on a selected topic. eg: some science news sources and use keywords to surface just the content a student is interested in.  
• Create a newspaper for your school, add just your own blogs, tweets, news sites, etc.

• #tlchat
• pollyalida daily
• Mars Curiosity Test
• Stuyvesant High School Daily
• Common Core Daily

• Very similar in concept to Paper.li, but as an iPad,iPohone and Androic app. 

• Choose from gorgeous contributed artwork, write your own story. Turns it into an online flip-book. Free & Pro plans
• Edutopia: New Teacher Boot Camp Week 3 - Using Storybird
• Writing, editing, creativity
• For ALL ages 

• Princess TinkerBell & the Kitens
• Not a Normal Boy

HistoryPin

• Yet another tool that might fall in the curation category.
• Add photos to locations on a map. Add notes about the photo and location.
• Create Collections of photos to share a story of a community, a voyage, a life. 
• Create Tours to lead visitors through a story or a tour of a community. 
• Also, a wonderful way to explore history through photos and stories. 
• Schools & HistoryPin

• Students as local historians

• Similar to HistoryPin, but lacking the ability to create collections and tours. 
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• Easy way to create an online slideshow with your slides on one side of the screen and a video of you narrating on the other sides
• Create slides offline and upload, then record video and audio with webcam. 
• Develop presentation skill & confidence.  
• Video tour

• TeachMeet - Conference presentation 
• Essential Books for Teenage Girls - by a teenage girl. 

• Amazing iPad app to create the simple, elegant and effective slide decks.
• Search only finds CC licensed photos
• Slide decks are published on the web and can be embedded elsewhere.  

• Polly's Sample  

• "Design beautiful online flyers and publish instantly."
• Great for creating a single page collage, poster, flyer.
• Create colorful posters for the classroom. 
• Annie Davis did a nice one as a Back to School newsletter
• Could be used to do a visual presentation.

• Back to School news

• Create your own infographics
• Paige's post on Piktochart
• (an alternative Easel.ly) 

• Piktochart examples 

• Create multimedia stories based on a timeline and a map.
• Images are added to locations on a map and along a timeline. 
• Narrate your story, then share. 

• Charlotte Bronte Biography
• The Rise of Democratic Ideals

• Easy to use search tool for Creative Commons licensed images.
• Provides a snippet of code to embed attribution on a web page.  

• Pixlr
• Photoshop Express
• pic monkey 

• Handy group texting service - students text your keyword to 41411 and are immediately subscribed to your updates. handy for teachers sending out homework reminders, updates to parents, etc. 
• Sue Kowalski mentioned this in the latest NYLA newsletter "send messages to a list of subscribers via text message and can use to promote activities, contests, and services available at the library.   Many teachers use it as well for homework reminders, conversation starters, and resource distribution. I've also used it for ski club and various field trip groups. "
• (alternative: Class Pager) 

• Make the most of Twitter! If you're already a twitter fan, you know the benefits of connecting with colleagues and sharing ideas. 
• If you're not ready to jump in and start tweeting, you can still benefit by following some really good subject discussions. 
• #tlchat is a great place to get your feet wet. Tweets with that #tlchat hashtag (as it's called in twitterspeak) are all about teacher-librarian information. Follow the hashtag directly on Twitter or through Tweetchat 
• Joyce Valenza set up a #tlchat paper.li which turns the resources mentioned via #tlchat into a handy daily newspaper. 
• 100 Best Twitter Tools for Teachers 

• Twitter is the New Bus -lesson plan 
• #stuvoice - students interested in educational reform

• Today's Meet for a backchannel - use it to record reactions, questions, ideas during a presentation. Could do book 'tweets' with it.
• Love this exercise from Gwyneth Jones -- book teaser tweets. 

• Twitter Book Review assignment - from Gwyneth Jones 

• Instant, simple, poll tool. No sign up required.
• Gather feedback in a flash.

• Our workshop poll 

• Create a network of blogs for your students.
• Simple, safe, created for educators.
• Free!!  

• Shepherd's Shining Stars

• iGoogle is going away. Protopage could be your replacement 

• Gwyneth Jones protopage example
• Cherry Hills Eementary School Library