Our new posters
My practicum student Jenni Stern and I have been playing with ideas for promoting new and traditional skills we think are important. And we’ve been inspired by my good friend Gwyneth Jones’ Comic Life...
View ArticleOgilvy notes: an inspiration for student creation?
As I was looking for more information on Howard Rheingold’s book yesterday, I discovered the Ogilvy notes for his book launch from the SXSW Conference recently held in Austin. I’ve noticed these...
View ArticlePostering with new tools
I thought I’d share a couple of cool tools I’ve been playing with to make posters for student projects and to promote library services and events. Currently in private beta, Smore may be the easiest...
View ArticleThe Picnik is over, but . . .
I’ve been mourning my beloved Picnik. the photo-editing tool that closed its basket and moved to the Google+ Creative Suite. We can use Picnik there. When we’re there. Happily, we have several other...
View ArticleGoogle’s Search by Image: Something to look at
You may not have seen it yet, but Google recently added a few powerful features to its image search. Look for the little camera icon on the right of the Image Search box. Search by image allows you to...
View ArticleSandy and media literacy
. . . one of the things that’s now becoming clear is the major role that social media played during and after the storm. Sites like Twitter and Facebook were, for some, incredibly useful tools. They...
View ArticleFocusing in on authors who pin
We’ve followed their blogs and tweets. Now many of us are following their boards. Through Pinterest, some of our favorite authors are sharing fan art; previewing book covers and chapters; allowing us...
View ArticleA very handy CC poster
We’ve been relatively successful in spreading the gospel of using of Creative Commons and public domain work in student products. Our Copyright Friendly LibGuide is one of the most used of all of our...
View ArticleNot just about citing images (so much more to embed from NoodleTools!)
A Guide to Citing Images, a new infographic from our friends at NoodleTools, offers a MLA-aligned flow chart to guide researchers through a variety of image citation situations. But it is not just...
View ArticlePowToon + Katie = even more awesomeness
I am a big fan of the talented, adorable and slightly wacky author/illustrator/kidlit blogger/podcaster Katie Davis. I am also a big fan of the slightly wacky, digital animation tool PowToon with its...
View ArticleRecite this for inspiration
I was wondering how folks have been making those simple, little quotation posters that I’ve seen around the Web. Until this morning, my dear friend Shannon Miller, shared Recitethis. Recitethis is a...
View ArticleWorking together is working smarter [Infographic]
Based on a report recently released by the National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE), Working Together is Working Smarter, visually demonstrates the role of school librarians as highly involved...
View ArticleGoogle’s Reverse Image Search now pops up in Chrome
There are those times when a student wants to use and cite an image, but the original creator of the image and other important details are not exactly easy to identify. Google’s reverse image search is...
View ArticleFree-range scanning
The other day my desktop printer/scanner decided it would no longer scan. Panicked, I wondered if I could simply take a picture of the page I needed with my smartphone camera. That sorta worked, but...
View ArticleBritish Library expands The Commons with Public Domain Goodness
The British Library recently uploaded one million scanned public domain images onto The Commons, the world’s largest photo archive hosted by Flickr. Taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century...
View ArticleLaunching lovely little labels (way more than eight solutions)
Not a week goes by when I don’t find myself looking for a label to represent a blog post, to pin an image-free article or post on Pinterest, to add visual interest to a quote for a slide or our...
View ArticleGoogle search by usage rights
It just got a lot easier for students to find copyright-friendly content using Google Image Search. Here’s how: After entering a search term, click on Search Tools. A pull-down menu appears offering a...
View ArticleBig news from Getty Images
Getty Images’ new embed tool is huge news for those of us who look for great images to use in teaching, digital storytelling and presentation. Why huge? We’re talking 35 million photographs. Up until...
View ArticleGoogle Slides and images news
Among the reasons I’ve been reluctant to build more of my presentations in Google Slides was, frankly, that working with images in Google Slides was a painful process. But then, collaborating anywhere...
View ArticleThe Metropolitan Museum of Art Shares 400,000 High-Res images for us to use!
Early last month, I wrote about the big news from Getty Images. Last week, Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced more than 400,000 high-resolution digital...
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