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SLJ’s School Ebook Market Directory
See feature Story on: How Two Schools are Riding the Transition to Ebooks Ebook providers offer different selections of titles with … [Continue Reading]
E. It’s Complicated. How Two Schools are Riding the Transition to Ebooks
In a 2013 survey, 26 percent of School Library Journal subscribers said they currently use digital textbooks and ebooks, and 11 … [Continue Reading]
Tech Training Vendor Introduces Need-Based Pricing for Libraries
Technology education provider Treehouse announced Treehouse Education Library Aid, a new pricing plan that offers small or demonstrably … [Continue Reading]
Life with Raspberry Pi: The hot $25 computer may just spark a coding revolution in schools
By Chad Sansing Our classroom glows with activity. One kid drafts a how-to article in which he explains the steps involved in wiring a … [Continue Reading]
Maker Summer: A global project offers DIY opportunities for creativity and sharing
Tinkerers of all ages are flexing their creative muscles during the Summer of Making and Connecting, a global project geared to empower … [Continue Reading]
NCSU Shares Open-Source Solution for Crowdsourcing Photos
On August 15, North Carolina State University Libraries (NCSU Libraries) in Raleigh released lentil, open-source software that supports the … [Continue Reading]
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Don’t Ignore Terms of Service
By Roy Tennant on September 5, 2013 Leave a Comment
So recently I wanted to post a comment on a web site and as many web sites are doing these days, I was presented with all kinds of options for logging in via a different service that I might already be logged in to. For example: So let’s break this down. Here are the [...]
SLJ’s School Ebook Market Directory
By Matt Enis and Sarah Bayliss on September 3, 2013 Leave a Comment
Which ebook provider will best meet your school’s needs and budget? SLJ’s snapshot of 19 ebook vendors outlines the suppliers’ range of offerings, terms of use, and pricing options.
E. It’s Complicated. How Two Schools are Riding the Transition to Ebooks
By Karen Springen on September 3, 2013
For this close-up report on going digital, SLJ talked to academic experts, librarians, teachers, and students at two Illinois high schools. Big questions: What are the best ebook providers? How many student iPads get damaged? Do students read more in ebook or print? And more.
A Minecraft Library Scores Big: Mattituck, NY, Branch Is a Hit with Kids
By Lauren Barack on September 3, 2013 3 Comments
Inspired by the experiences of Connecticut librarian Sarah Ludwig’s Minecraft library club, Elizabeth Grohoski and Karen Letteriello of the Mattituck-Laurel Library (NY) are now using a virtual Minecraft library to attract young patrons. The game allows users to build in a 3-D virtual world with cubes similar to Legos—but without any proscriptive kits and manuals.
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SLJ’s School Ebook Market Directory
By Matt Enis and Sarah Bayliss on September 3, 2013 Leave a Comment
Which ebook provider will best meet your school’s needs and budget? SLJ’s snapshot of 19 ebook vendors outlines the suppliers’ range of offerings, terms of use, and pricing options.
E. It’s Complicated. How Two Schools are Riding the Transition to Ebooks
By Karen Springen on September 3, 2013
For this close-up report on going digital, SLJ talked to academic experts, librarians, teachers, and students at two Illinois high schools. Big questions: What are the best ebook providers? How many student iPads get damaged? Do students read more in ebook or print? And more.
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SAPL To Debut Digital Commons, Test “Public Proof” OverDrive Kiosk
By Matt Enis on August 6, 2013 4 Comments
The San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) this month will unveil Connect at Central, a new 12,800 square-foot digital commons in the system’s main library. In addition, as a beta tester for OverDrive, SAPL will be experimenting with an installation of the company’s new OverDrive Media Station (OMS) interface on a ruggedized kiosk that could be deployed in public areas outside of a library.
‘Here Be Fiction’ Launches: New site features ebook fiction available to schools on library-friendly terms
By Christopher Harris on June 28, 2013 4 Comments
Discovery of ebooks in K-12, particularly worthwhile fiction, has been tough going. A new site, Here Be Fiction, will attempt to remedy that, enabling users to identify quality ebooks accessible to schools on library-friendly licensing terms. Featuring ebook previews and reviews, HereBeFiction.org will enable librarians and others to discover fiction from a wide variety of publishers made available for both individual and multi-user access.
3M SelfCheck, NoveList Partner on Reader Recommendation | ALA Annual 2013
By Matt Enis on June 25, 2013 Leave a Comment
For libraries that use both services, items checked out using the new Quick Connect interface for 3M SelfCheck will trigger a NoveList search, enabling SelfCheck screens to display reading recommendations limited to items that are owned by the patron’s library.
Common Sense Media Unveils Graphite, New Review Site for Apps, Digital Content
By The Digital Shift on June 24, 2013 Leave a Comment
June 24 marked the debut of Graphite, a free, online guide to digital learning products compiled by and for educators. Created by Common Sense Media, a national nonprofit, the new resource reviews and rates digital products, including apps, games, websites and digital curricula for K-12.
Uncommonly Open: The New Digital Commons Network
By Matt Enis on June 19, 2013 Leave a Comment
As the new portal to content produced and stored using bepress’s widely used Digital Commons publishing and institutional repository platform, the Digital Commons Network helps users search hundreds of thousands of open access articles and other content.
Roy Tennant
Don’t Ignore Terms of Service
By Roy Tennant on September 5, 2013 Leave a Comment
So recently I wanted to post a comment on a web site and as many web sites are doing these days, I was presented with all kinds of options for logging in via a different service that I might already be logged in to. For example: So let’s break this down. Here are the [...]
Power Tools
By Roy Tennant on August 29, 2013 Leave a Comment
OK, I admit it, I’m a hardware geek. I love hardware of virtually any variety — building, climbing, rafting — you name it. I have a thing for tools that just won’t quit. Plus, I’m quite aware of the importance of gear of many types. As I’ve said in the past, there are three things [...]
Unix Shells: The Power and the Gory
By Roy Tennant on August 6, 2013 2 Comments
No, the title does not include a typographical error. I really DO mean “the power and the gory“. Gory as in “horrific”. So…yeah. This post is about the decided ambivalence of a basic decision about Unix architecture that has dogged me (and, it must be assumed), many others, my entire life. But first let’s define [...]
When Pigs Fly
By Roy Tennant on August 2, 2013 Leave a Comment
Anyone who has ever worked at the sprawling empire known as the University of California knows that getting anything done across the diversity of 10 “separate and not so equal” campuses can be…uh…difficult. That is why when I heard the news today that the University Faculty Senate had mandated that all “future research articles authored [...]
Lessons From the River, #4: Once a Trip Leader, Always a Trip Leader
By Roy Tennant on August 1, 2013 Leave a Comment
As a commercial river guide, if you demonstrate any real aptitude at one point or another you will be assigned to be Trip Leader. Just like it sounds, that’s where the buck stops, and a lot of responsibility comes with it. Your first and foremost responsibility is for the safety of everyone on the trip. You are [...]