The Vatican Library Will be Available to All of Us

Bravo!

Via TYWKIWDDBI

Do You Have Everything You Need In Your Head?

Food for thought

The Internet Could Crash. We Need A Plan B

Ted: Ideas Worth Spreading

Project Genesis

Project Genesis // shortfilm sub ita from project genesis on Vimeo.

Via: Kuriositas

The History of Education Technology: Infographic

Edudemic

A Short History of the GIF

Bonus: 20 Animated Gifs that Explain How Things Work

Word Geeks Commissioned Keyboard Out of the Box

There are a gazillion things you can do with old scrabble tiles, many of which easily appeal to word/library/book-lovers but this one made the connection with technology (about two years ago).

More at Datamancer

via OhGizmo

Friday Funny: on Amazing Books

Arctic Circle

6 Hot Trends in Teaching Technology

Teaching Trends

Via Scoop It on Technology and Leadership in Education

Delving Through Delicious (Bookmarks)

Advocating for silence in a noise-addicted world – The Quiet Ones.

8 Tips for the Care and Feeding of the Reluctant Tech User from the Daring Librarian

People of the Bookshelf “Alpha by subject … or by dinner party seating rules? Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks on a shelving obsession.”

Ideas from L_M Net for inexpensive / homemade bookmarks.

Over 250 Free Children’s e-Books for ages 3-11 from Oxford Primary to read online with or without narration. Activities included.

Emoticons at 30 (Or Is It 45? Or 125? Or 131?)

Reconceptualising the School Library as Collaborative Makerspace “We need to deliberately and systematically create spaces and processes in our schools that foster creativity and innovation”

Free Books: 100 Free Sites to Download Literature

New SF bookstore devoted to rescuing out-of-print sf books and making them into free ebooks

B.C. Librarian Judith Comfort’s Fieldnotes:

“Our kids and their teachers are rushed off their feet like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland –“No time, no time,” and as for both student and adult attention and concentration – eye contact is replaced by eye – to screen contact. Factor in the whirling, dervishing technology gurus who have compromise our pedagogy with brilliant myths personalized to seduce us.

I feel I am needed more than ever because my teachers have no time to look for stuff themselves, and have no time to analyze it’s usefulness in terms of their teaching goals. The kids need to be reassured that space and quiet is a good necessary thing; that reading heals their fragmented attention-addled brains.”

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