Are you looking for a place to share ideas and ask questions? Can’t find your colleagues in the sea of social media? Then head on over to the ITEM Web Forums! A re-incarnation of the old MEMO forums, the new ones are a Google Plus Community. You can even narrow your search by region, job postings, or events. Join the fun and share away!
YouTube is a resource for finding classroom content and a place where students can also share their work. But like many things, there are rules and ways to use it responsibly. Aimed at secondary students (ages 13-17), Google’s Curriculum resource “Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship” helps school librarians and teachers share ways that students can learn that responsibility and the skills to become better digital citizens.
The site has many tools and lesson plans to use. Here are some of the things you’ll find:
From Google: “We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity.”
Image credit: http://tinyurl.com/q4ce8mw, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
YouTube is a resource for finding classroom content and a place where students can also share their work. But like many things, there are rules and ways to use it responsibly. Aimed at secondary students (ages 13-17), Google’s Curriculum resource “Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship” helps school librarians and teachers share ways that students can learn that responsibility and the skills to become better digital citizens.
The site has many tools and lesson plans to use. Here are some of the things you’ll find:
From Google: “We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity.”
Image credit: http://tinyurl.com/q4ce8mw, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Did you know Google Calendar had an official Chrome Extension? Thanks to MakeUseOf we all do! From Dropbox to Discoverly extensions can be a quick way to use a tool right in your browser.
Need some school specific extensions? Check out Alice Keeler’s blog posts for even more ideas.
What’s your favorite Chrome Extension? Are there any new ones we should know about?
“In the last five years, starting around 2010, the shifting priorities of Google’s management left…” the archival projects of Google Groups, Google Books, and Google News Archive “…in limbo, or abandoned entirely.”
So begins the recent reflections by Andy Baio of Medium about the change in Google’s mission from one of preservation to one focused on the present and future. Luckily, for users and preservationists everywhere, the Internet Archive has picked up the torch.
The Internet Archive is known for archiving the web, and it’s Wayback Machine now indexes over 435 billion webpages! The Internet Archive also hosts:
Why wouldn’t we want to support this independent, nonprofit organization helping to preserve our online history?