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Angie Dickson, our new librarian, is an fan of the PE blog Phil Rowland set up for this academic year and wants to set up her own. Not only can she use this blog to communicate with students at our school, but with librarians and heads of information services worldwide!

Here’s some examples of some great (newbie-friendly) blogs in the field:

• Steven Cohen (USA)
• Camilla Elliott (Australia)
• Carolyn Foote (USA)
• Kathryn Greenhill (Australia)
• Christopher Harris (USA)
• Anne Johnston (Scotland)
• Jenny Luca (Australia)
• Ian McLean (Australia)
• Cathy Nelson (USA)
• Judy O’Connell (Australia)
• Joyce Valenza (USA)

There are also some social networks powered by Ning related to libraries and information services:

• Library 2.0
• TeacherLibrarian

Finally, there’s a great website called LibWorm that’s a search engine just for librarians!

(image from The Read/Write Web: Social Software and Libraries)

Posted: September 16th, 2008
Categories: Library, blogging
Tags: blogs, Library, Ning, social networking
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The second EdTechRoundup podcast is now edited and available for your listening pleasure. This time around we have the smooth sounds of John Johnston and Tom Barrett caressing your ear canals. They begin with Voices of the World, Tumblr and Ning as well as the ManyVoices Twitter writing project. The main section of the show then goes on to sharing a Google Spreadsheet in class and using a digital camera for video blogging. Good work guys!

Posted: February 4th, 2008
Categories: Technology
Tags: edte.ch, EdTechRoundup, educational technology, Google, John Johnston, Ning, Tom Barrett, Tumblr, Twitter
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