Pinterest becomes more social
Yesterday, Pinterest announced a new collaborative feature–conversations/messaging around shared pins. Combined with the Send a Pin feature added last spring, users can now share and comment on visual...
View ArticleParticipate: curating with communities
I’ve added a new platform to my list of curation favorites. The Participate Learning search engine offers access to thousands of educator-vetted K12 learning resources–apps, videos, and websites....
View ArticleNews for Padlet fans and newbies
If you’re like me, Padlet has been a go-to tool for brainstorming, back channeling, collaborating, collecting ideas and media and even for portfolio building–well, forever. Over the past few weeks one...
View Article#inTLchat
#inTLchat (in + tlchat) It seems so simple that I cannot figure out why it didn’t hit us sooner. Putting an “in” in front of the #tlchat hashtag we’ve been using forever, changes everything. It’s...
View Article#bookclubshare: Steve’s book club and one-book-one-school solution
The problem: When I left Springfield, I had at least 15 copies each of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Soloist and Unbroken lying around. A few copies of each were on the shelves. Many more...
View ArticleWakelet: for curation, collaborating and telling your stories
One of my favorite new(ish) tools for curation is Wakelet. In the past I’ve used to to archive conferences, share lists of best lists, crowd-source current awareness, and to keep my personal favorite...
View ArticleReimagining the author visit: a statewide approach
Every once in a while you discover a confluence of opportunity. This happened when a team of librarians and educators in New Jersey discovered that Jacqueline Woodson, the Library of Congress National...
View ArticleOn Librarians and Point Guards
It’s March, so I suppose it makes sense to talk basketball. And I thought it might be just the right time to reimagine a post I wrote several years back. I confess that my knowledge of the game is...
View Article#TLstrong: Is the our moment?
Check-in Slides and Polls A small group of friends and colleagues thought it might be good to gather colleagues around the country for a little check-in. On March 26, we brought around 85 folks...
View ArticleWakelet: Way to do a conference! (and a heck of a lot more)
Like many of my educator colleagues, I’ll confess to having been a webinar junkie under quarantine. Like many of my edtech colleagues across the world, a couple of weeks back I attended Wakelet...
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