My name is Ian Delaney. I’m a journalist based in London. I’m the editor of NMK, a site about making the most of the Internet. I used to be the editor of a magazine called ICT for Education. And then before that I used to edit What Laptop, and before that I was a teacher.
I think that’s why I was interested to read Ian’s take on Blogging 2.0! Not a post about pedagogy, but a post that summarises a few trends and ideas, and helps me connect my educational work with the blogging world at large.
BibMe is a fully automatic and free bibliography maker. You can create, and save your bibliographies until you are ready to download. Looks good – really easy to use! Does APA, MLA and Chicago formatting for a full range of media.
From KairosNews:
This is the most exciting citation generator I’ve played with in a while. I’ve been using sites like Easybib.com for years, but BibMe, which was developed this spring by Information Systems students at Carnegie Mellon University seems simpler to use and more extensive in its scope than most other tools around. Just go play with it. It seems pretty fantastic.
I agree!
[Thanks to Chris Harris from the School Library Journal blog, this is now cross-posted at iLibrarian.
I’ve just read an excellent post at Library Clips about Blogs: the many ways “many” come together. It’s just the sort of post that makes terrific sense to a blogger – and which is well beyond the usual “why we blog and what we can do with blogging” kind of conversation.
For a relative newbie (just one year of blogging) it is fascinating to see how things are shaping up. There are so many options involvement and networking within and beyond groups. Like the kids, who have migrated from Friendster to Myspace to Beebo to….. we adults are also migrating.
Facebook is shaping up to be a pretty interesting tool – that’s my current focus for experimentation – and lots of good Australian bloggers are joining in. There are lots of great groups to join (just like Ning), but I like the clean interface, and the lack of blogging! I am so glad that I can join or leave a group as I want – has Ning solved this problem?
One particular FaceBook App had me grinning 🙂
Thanks to David Ward (at FaceBook), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has a a handy widget that searches the UIUC Library catalogue, as well as some of their journal article databases, right from Facebook. It’s convenient! and cool!
I’m ‘Judy O’Connell’ at FaceBook – add me as a friend!
….. or so Librarian Chick insists. You might like to drop over to the Librarian Chick wiki – where you will find a big compilation of all kinds of resources.
I am particularly interested in the Books and Audio Books section, because many of our school libraries are looking for good ways of integrating digital and audio book resources.
Anshul Samar is a 13-year old founder and CEO of Elementeo, a company operating in the field of education.
Enter the chemical battlefield with Elementeo, a game of chemistry. Two strong wills fighting against each other in a midst of an epic chemical battle, constantly trying to reduce their opponent’s IQ to ZERO. Armed with their arsenal of elements, compounds, and nuclear reactions, these chemists strive to create, combat, and conquer the world!
Teemu Arina says
Isn’t that exiting. One more young CEO who thinks the educational system is not doing an adequate job and decides to fix things himself. Reminds of myself when I was 16 but Anshul beats me by 3 years.
I recommend a read of Tarina, Teemu’s blog. He is partner and CEO at Dicole Oy, a company focusing on understanding the role of social technologies in knowledge work and networked learning in organizations.
Who are you teaching today that is really a CEO in school uniform?
The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything is a theoretical solution in Douglas Adams‘ book series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The “Answer” is simply “42“. In the story, the Answer is produced using the hypercomputer Deep Thought.
OK, so I have to own up that this crazy book has always been on my bookshelf of favourites. Nuts!
Naturally I had to test out mind42.com! Not sure if the developers know about Douglas Adams, as they say the name stands FOR TWO, which is the minimum required number of people to do something together.
Is mind42.com the ultimate mindmapping solution to manage all your ideas? Well, it just might be. You can collaborate, or manage revisions. Link images or URLs. Make notes or create a ‘to-do-list’. Amazingly, it sports a Wikipedia API – so you can search wikipedia, and attach an article. Would like it to have more flexibility with shapes and lines – but overall pretty interesting.
An email during the week reminded me that I haven’t promoted EdTechTalk to new readers to this blog.
May 15 marked EdTechTalk’s first anniversary – and what a year! Wow, professional learning at its best!
Edtechtalk is a webcasting network of educators dedicated to helping those involved in educational technology explore, discuss, and collaborate in its use. The EdTech Channell currently webcasts 7 shows:
The National Library of Australia is ready to begin a major undertaking of newspaper digitization. Within the next five years, Australian newspapers printed before 1954 will be available online for free. According to NLA director-general Jan Fullerton, “Within this project, we are planning to digitise one newspaper from each of the capital cities and the territories from the beginning of their time until 1954 which is the copyright cut off.” [Reported in The Age]
Download Picasa2flickr from SourceForge, and you will be allowed to (you guessed it!) upload your photos straight from picasa to flickr!
This is a very handy enhancement for busy teachers. Since picasa is so easy to use (and can do so many simple image editing things ‘on the fly’), being able to hit the button and upload to flickr is a nice enhancement!
The NSW (Australia) Department of Education and Training provides an information-packed portal on School Libraries and Information Literacy for teacher-librarians, principals, school assistants, and those interested in collaborative teaching and school libraries supporting ICT and literacy.
They have reviewed the ‘look’ of the Information Process Summary – and the full document will be re-published soon. You may like to pick up ideas from this site from time to time.
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