“Meet the latest tech superheroes: school librarians. According to School Library Journal’s 2012 School Technology Survey, media specialists are leading the charge to bring new media, mobile devices, social apps, and web-based technologies into our nation’s classrooms.”
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If You Love Documentaries…
“Documentary Heaven is a free site that has organized more than 1600 documentary films found across the Internet. Through Documentary Heaven can find documentaries covering all kinds of topics in science, history, politics, business, and many more categories. The videos are sourced from a variety of services including, but not limited to, YouTube.”
via Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Places to Find & Watch Documentaries Online.
Academic Makerspaces: Connections & Conversations…10.29.12 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog
I’m super keen on libraries evolving into makerspaces supporting learning and collaboration. Although libraries have traditionally always supported these activities, its being raised to a new level with the push for the ability to create using technology and leveraging knowledge of community members. Very cool!
Collection of Links: 3D Printing
With 3D printing becoming ever more popular in the news, I thought I would post links to articles I found most informative about this emerging technology.
The EFF Needs Help Keeping 3D Printing Free from TechCrunch October 27, 2012
Kickstopped: Affordable 3D Printer Put on Hold from WIRED October 26, 2012
The Future of Higher Education: Reshaping Universities Through 3D Printing from Engadget October 19, 2012
Wired’s Chris Anderson: Today’s ‘Maker Movement’ Is The New Industrial Revolution [TCTV] from TechCrunch October 9, 2012
The Next Battle for Internet Freedom Could Be Over 3D Printing from TechCrunch published in August 2012
To Remain Relevant, Libraries Should Help Patrons Create – The Digital Shift from May 2012
This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notes
This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notes.
Quotable: “In an innovative interdisciplinary study, neurobiological experts, radiologists and humanities scholars are working together to explore the relationship between reading, attention and distraction – by reading Jane Austen.”
Huffington Post Books | The Blog — Why Preserving History Matters by Steve Berry
Stephen’s Lighthouse — Connected Learning Resources and Infographic
PCMag.com | News & Opinion — Harvard, MIT to Offer Free Online Classes
Harvard, MIT to Offer Free Online Classes | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
Quotable: “EdX courses will be available to anyone with an Internet connection…The first set of courses will be announced this summer, and begin in the fall of 2012.”
Interaction-Design.org — Free Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
Interaction-Design.org — Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
Great resource with 25 different chapters so far ranging on topics such as User Experience and Experience Design, End-User Development and Semiotics.
Quotable from the Website: “We’re on a mission to make free and open educational materials: There are so many great minds in the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design community and we want to empower these authors to reach all their interested readers around the world. We believe these authors have the minds to change the world and deserve a publishing venue truly designed for the author and the reader, not the publisher and the profit.”
iLibrarian » 5 Educational YouTube Channels for Librarians
5 Educational YouTube Channels for Librarians
via iLibrarian » 5 Educational YouTube Channels for Librarians.
I second Mashable! My favourite go to website for tech related information and tech trends to watch for on the horizon.
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