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Coursera to offer K-12 Teacher Professional Development MOOCs

Polly-Alida Farrington — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:44:16 +0000

An interesting move : Coursera Announces Professional Development Courses to Facilitate Lifelong Learning for Teachers “Today we are extremely pleased to announce the launch of a teacher professional development category on Coursera. We believe that helping teachers improve their skills is an important contribution that we can make to the education of students everywhere. We are [...]

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Marketing Genius from Gwyneth Jones

Polly-Alida Farrington — Wed, 01 May 2013 22:47:12 +0000

Love the tips for marketing your library in this presentation by Gwyneth Jones, The Daring Librarian. Practice your Lady Gaga moves and market your library. 10 Ways Librarians Can be a Marketing Genius Like Lady Gaga from gwyneth jones (via: Who Needs a Librarian When You Have Google?)

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WordPress Brute Force Attacks

Polly-Alida Farrington — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:21:52 +0000

Just in case you haven’t heard about this in the news, there’s a nasty flare of attacks on WordPress and Joomla sites going on. Things you can do: If your login password is admin – CHANGE IT NOW! Likewise, beef up your password. Really, make it un-guessable. Install something to slow down a hacker trying [...]

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Cool Tools for Schools 2013/14 – Interested?

Polly-Alida Farrington — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:12:18 +0000

I’ve had several requests to run another round of the Cool Tools for Schools project starting in October 2013. It would be great to get a few more BOCES SLS regions involved as well. If you’re not familiar with the project, it’s an online learning program based on the original 23 Things Learning 2.0 program developed by [...]

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23 Things and Learning 2.0 in Schools

Polly-Alida Farrington — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:06 +0000

This past week I had the pleasure of presenting with Sarah Ludwig and Sara Kelley-Mudie during the Internet@Schools sessions at Computers in Libraries in Washington DC. Our session focused on Learning 2.0 and 23 Things in Schools. My slides are available below and on the conference presentations page, along with lots of great presentations from [...]

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edshelf

Polly-Alida Farrington — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:17:27 +0000

Edshelf This directory of education oriented apps and tools includes ratings and reviews from the members of the Edshelf community. Many reviews include great tips on how to use the tools in educational settings. Easy to search/browse for specific types of tools and filter by cost, age, subject area and more. Create collections of your [...]

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Are you voting for Courtney?

Polly-Alida Farrington — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:04:49 +0000

I’m voting for Courtney Young for ALA President. Learn More Want to put this badge on your blog or website? Here’s the code to copy and paste. <div><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8386/8476962837_91cc71e659_o.jpg" alt="courtney" /> I’m voting for Courtney Young for ALA President. <a href="http://courtneyyoung.org/">Learn More</a></div>

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Learning New Tech & Working with IT

Polly-Alida Farrington — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:45:05 +0000

A couple of really interesting blog posts from the last week. Just Do it! and Trust Yourself. Jennifer Carey offers encoruagement to anyone who’s a bit leary of diving into new tech tools in her post Hesitant Teachers Can Learn New Tech Many educators feel overwhelmed by new technology and may feel apprehensive when it [...]

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Upcoming Workshops

Polly-Alida Farrington — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:18:51 +0000

I’ve been terribly negligent about keeping my workshop calendar up to date. But it’s finally up to date. So do take a look. There are lots of workshops coming up through the CT State Library, AZ State Library, Internet@Schools/CIL and more. Direct Link to my Google Calendar in case your mobile browser can’t see it [...]

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Zeen for storytelling, reports, portfolios and more

Polly-Alida Farrington — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:31:56 +0000

Zeen isn’t a brand new tool, it’s been around for about a year. But I just found it today and with it snowing, it seemed like a good time to play. It’s simple to create a stream of content that can be broken down into individual pages, mimicking magazine style pages. Take a look at my [...]

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