Building a Library in the Clouds

“school librarians are in a position to lead their colleagues throughout education into a new world. “We can model a shift to a paperless, social, ubiquitous learning environment where doing stuff takes precedence over learning how to do stuff,” Johnson said. “If we don’t, who will?”"

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• – By Maggie Verster

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Recommend me a book…(funny)

Tags: spelling, books, recoomendations, funny, librarians, languages

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QR Codes in Libraries

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OverDrive – Global distributor of digital eBooks, audiobooks, music & video for library, school & retail

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Findings Turns Your Ebook Highlights Into Shared Reading Libraries

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Home – Revolutionising Libraries with Social Media

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Revolutionising Libraries with Social Media

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Library Podcasts you Might Find Useful

“These aren’t podcasts done by local libraries, for their local customers. Instead, these podcasts are all focused on us librarians.
And I’m using “podcast” loosely in my list – it includes audio-only podcasts, call-in live shows (that then turn into downloadable audio podcasts after the fact), and video shows.”

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• – By Maggie Verster

Reading a book versus a screen: Different reading devices, different modes of reading?

A book or a screen – which of these two offers more reading comfort? There are no disadvantages to reading from electronic reading devices compared with reading printed texts.

Tags: reading, library2.0, reports, research

• – By Maggie Verster

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http://saschoollibraries.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/304/ http://saschoollibraries.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/304/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:41:13 +0000 Maggie http://saschoollibraries.wordpress.com/?p=304 ]]> “Loved this video. Here was a brilliant, erudite and persuasive man debunking the myths about texting corrupting our language. His grasp of the change from a book culture to an internet one is excellent and he suggests that we need to realise that we are in an age of transition with text and Twitter only being in its comparative infancy. I would though have liked to have seen the audience’s comments and questions at the end of his talk.” -RSAorg

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Free Technology for Teachers: Literature Map – Find Authors You Might Like

Finding books that kids will like can be a difficult task. Literature Map is a tool that might make that process easier. Literature Map provides a web of authors you might like based on authors that you already enjoy reading. To use Literature Map just type an author’s name into the search box and webbed list of authors will be displayed. The authors’ names closest to the author whose name you entered are the authors whose work you’re most likely to enjoy.

Anatomy of a Librarian [Infographic]

Developing a Culture of Reading Using Technology – LiveBinder

ManyBooks.net – Ad-free eBooks for your iPad, Kindle, or eBook reader

Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you’ll find something interesting in the special collections. There are more than 29,000 eBooks available for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders, and they’re all free! If you still can’t decide what to read you might want to browse through some covers to see what strikes your fancy. Or try the Recent Additions to the library, with genre filter.

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Free & Bargain eBooks – Pixel of Ink

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Global Media Journal African Edition

“The African Edition of Global Media Journal is maintained by the Journalism Department of Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape province of South Africa and publishes research papers, professional articles, and book reviews. Global Media Journal African Edition also offers an opportunity to graduate students to publish their work. It is published bi-annually.”

Tags: school2.0, hed, journals, research, local, southafrican

• – By Maggie Verster

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BBC News – Digital textbooks open a new chapter

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FunDza: helping local teens to read

The FunDza Literacy Trust boosts literacy through popularising reading and building a community of teen and young adult readers across South Africa.

FunDza achieves this by providing content that is relevant to the lives of millions of young South Africans and leveraging the reach of mobile technology within this demographic.

Tags: school2.0, library2.0, mlearning, literacy

• – By Maggie Verster

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http://saschoollibraries.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/learning-to-embrace-twitter-in-the-classroom-and-library/ http://saschoollibraries.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/learning-to-embrace-twitter-in-the-classroom-and-library/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:26:42 +0000 Maggie http://saschoollibraries.wordpress.com/?p=292 ]]> Twitter has great potential as a creative and collaborative learning and teaching tool in the classroom. It has been chosen as the number 1 learning & teaching tool for the last 4 (going on 5) years globally, which shows that it is tool that has to be taken seriously.

Some of the reasons for using twitter as a teacher and in your classroom:

• You can create a personal learning network on the fly
• You can learn from others and get instant support
• You can use this tool to teach your learners how to use social media responsibly
• You can share resources, events, thoughts, lesson ideas… quick as lightning!
• You can have discussions on topical issues in your classroom and in education in general.
• You can use it to connect your class to other global classrooms and experts
• ……………..

Obviously it is just a tool and learning and teaching only takes place if we use a tool effectively! My mission is to get at least 500 South African teachers to do just that! So this online un-workshop will guide newbie twitter teachers or those wanting to learn about how to use twitter for teaching and learning through some of the steps- from getting started, to creating a learning networks- to using the tool more effectively- to using it as a classroom tool- to sharing resources- to embedding it your school website, LMS, or your blog- to managing it -to using it as an on demand assessment and feedback tool-to……

The (…..) parts is where the UN part of the un-workshop comes in. Even though I, and hopefully others, will be providing structure as far as making sure that everybody will be getting some of the basic information and providing learning objects and references along the way, this workshop will be dependent on the input, direction and needs of all who participate. I will also invite my learning network to interact, support and share best practices with you and I am sure we will ALL be able to add value and direction to this unworkshop. So if you are part of my amazing twitter PLN, please let me know if you will be able to mentor a few new teacher twits and get them to understand why we are a-twitter about twitter!
It will also entail some online ad hoc webinars (which will be hosted by Schoolnet) to help you connect and we even may want to meet face to face and have edu-tweetups all around the country?!!

The whole workshop will be run via Facebook (www.ict4champions.co.za) and my blog (www.school2.co.za) for those without faces . So, you can either RSVP as a comment on the event blogpost here, or on my Facebook events page.

Looking forward to interacting with you all! If you are a South African teacher please add #sateachers to your tweet. Our hashtag for this unworkshop is #ict4champions.

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The History and Future of Reading

Tags: reading, library2.0, english

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Free Tech Tool Of The Week #7 -qrcodes

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