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AASL Recommended App: Organization & Management: Three Ring

three_ringIn June 2016, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their 25 Best Apps for Teaching and Learning. The apps encourage qualities such as innovation and active participation, and are user-friendly.

Three Ring is an app that works by having the user capture student work via a mobile device and upload it to the Three Ring Website. The user can take pictures and record audio and visual material. The content can then be managed, tagged, shared, and organized online. This app is a good tool for making student portfolios. The content can be shared with parents through email. Check out their website for a great explanation of why this tool is important.

Check out reviews of the app in this post from EdSurge. This article from Instructional Tech Talk includes a video as well as examples for using the app in the classroom.

Cost: Free
Level: Elementary, Middle and High School
Platforms: iOS and Android

Recording from American Libraries Live: Landing Your Ideal Library Job

American Libraries LiveDid you miss it? Last Friday, American Libraries Live held Episode 2: Landing Your Ideal Library Job via Google Hangouts. Host David Connolly led a fantastic discussion with panelists Jill Klees and Bohyun Kim. Checkout the recording of the webinar/hangout at http://americanlibrarieslive.org/blog/archive-episode-2

While you’re there, also be sure to take a look at the left panel; it provides a listing of upcoming American Libraries Live episodes.

My Report on the EduTech Smackdown Open Mic Night with Joyce Valenza

In one of last week’s blog posts we highlighted EduTech’s Smackdown Open Mic Night with Dr. Joyce Valenza, which took place Monday (December 3rd) at 7:00 PM. Though there were maybe other places I would’ve rather been at 7:00 PM on a Monday :), I have to say I turned out to be very glad to have attended this online (Blackboard Collaborate) event. It was a great OpenMic_SimonScott_TLCafe12experience all around! The “open mic” approach was really quite fun, quick, and refreshing. Attendees that wanted to share a resource with the virtual audience had been asked in advance to create a slide and embed it in the larger slideshow so that they’d have a “spot” in the line-up of presenters. As the night progressed, one-by-one each slide appeared on the screen and the mic was turned over to the presenter.

The host of the evening was Dr. Joyce Valenza, along with a few other (big name) moderators. Throughout the hour-long open mic webinar scads of helpful tools, apps, and other resources were shared. I literally have four notebook pages full of tools/resources with helpful ideas and suggestions for how to effectively utilize them. I anticipate that I may be sharing some of these resources/tools/apps in upcoming blog posts, but know that they ranged from holocaust survivor story websites, to apps like Reflection, to storytelling sites/apps, to poster making resources. Really, the whole gamut was covered here! It was an energizing experience, and I definitely plan to attend similar events in the future.

Lucky for you if you missed it… There is an archived version of the webinar now available! If you participated as well, we definitely want to hear from you! Please share (in the comments area) the ideas and resources you found the most useful!