Resources and Presentations

Feel free to share any good resources you find or create here!

Presentations

• EBSCO Introduction
• Technology Tips from the Pembina Trails School Division
• Is Wikipedia Evil? Find out here.
• What is Web 2.0?
• Plagiarism.pdf by C.J. de Jong

Recommended Reading

• Towards a Transformative Pedagogy for School Libraries 2.0: Fascinating insights into the impact of Web 2.0 on Libraries

Recommended Feeds

What's an RSS Feed?

• Boing Boing
• CBC
• Deli.icio.us
• Giveaway of the Day: Free software!
• Library Journal Book Reviews
• Metafilter
• Neatorama
• New Scientist
• Read/Write Web
• Swiss Army Librarian

Librarian Feeds

• Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
• Eclectic Librarian
• Librarian.net
• Library Juice

Useful Sites

• Teaching Literacy
• Nice Net allows teachers to create their own invitation discussion rooms, set up classes, and post documents.
• Deli.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. This means that you can create an account, and share the sites you're looking at with the world. Quite useful for classes. Plus, you can subscribe to the feed on the main page, showing you "what's hot" in the del.icio.us community.
• Similicious uses Delicious to find similar sites. So, if you find a really useful resource, and you want to find others like it, use this!
• TeacherLibrarian.ning: A social network for TLs!
• Library 2.0 and Wiki and Blog introductions from the Eclectic Librarian