Did 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.
In reviewing the top posts of 2012 on the eLearning Site, I stumbled upon this one, which will appeal to our Pinterest addicts out there. Pinterest continues to gain steam in helping teachers and students alike to explore new ways to learn, share, teach, and grow. Read this blog post to visit 25 great Pinterest boards in EduTech. Many are maintained by major educational websites, key figures in edtech, and well-known bloggers, but others were created by teachers just like you who simply want to share resources and tips with others in education. The full blog post is at http://tinyurl.com/a23cvd6
I don’t know about you, but I sure love end of the year lists… “Best Of’s”, “Top Stories”, “Top 10 Articles”… they all provide useful information about the most popular or important topics from the past year. Check out EdTech’s list of the Top 10 Stories of 2012. The list will acquaint you with topics that are clearly of interest to others – they don’t rise to the top of the list without good reason! It also includes topics that are still current and timely, that may require at least reflection, if not action, on your part (or your school’s).
Examples of top stories include:
One-to-One or BYOD? Districts Explain Thinking Behind Student Computing Initiatives
Why Teachers Worry about Students’ Online Research Skills
10 Education Hashtags to Follow on Twitter
What is Web 3.0, Really, and What Does it Mean for Education?
GoodNotes is an app that comes highly recommended by many — especially those in the education field. GoodNotes allows users to take handwritten notes, draw/diagram,
mark-up PDFs, and then save it all on a nicely organized “bookshelf”. In addition, GoodNotes allows for easy sharing, page turning, and highlighting. It also automatically saves your work and provides full backup to prevent data loss.
GoodNotes is compatible with iPad and requires iOS 5.0 or later, and is priced at $4.99. Find out more about GoodNotes on its iTunes Preview or at www.goodnotesapp.com
Recently released by Minnesota-based company, Third Iron, Browzine is an app created by librarian, John Seguin. According to the Browzine press release “With BrowZine, users can easily find journals made available by their library, browse titles of interest, and read individual articles or the complete journal.” It also syncs with Dropbox and box.com for easy distribution 
and citation of articles.
There are two different versions of the app; one version gives the user access to open-access journals, and another requires a sync to occur between their library (whether public, school, or academic) and the app — authentication gains them access to most of their library’s online database collection. In other words, the library needs to have subscribed to the Browzine service for the sync to occur. If a library is interested in subscribing to Browzine they should consider reviewing this video, and visiting the Browzine website for additional information.
The app is free to the user, and is currently specific to the iPad (though plans are in the works for an Android app). It requires iOS 5.1 or later.