A Day For Good News: Edublog Awards and a Top Library Blog!

Last night, this blog was named a top five finalist in the librarian/library blog category for the 2011 Edublog Awards. I considered the nomination an honor, (no, I'm not lying, it truly was an honor to be nominated) since the other nominees are an incredible group of teacher-librarians. I'm very fortunate to love my job and  assisting my students and faculty every day. Here is a list of all the winners; this year, the top five in each category will be given a free year’s subscription to Edublogs Pro. SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT to Joyce Valenza (you are awesome) for earning the Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm one of the many people who must have nominated (and voted) for her.

Hey, that was enough great news for one day, right? Well, this evening I received an email telling me that A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet was just named to the Top 50 School Library Blogs list. Once again, I'm in great company with fellow teacher-librarians Gwyneth Anne Bronwynn Jones, Shannon McClintock Miller, Buffy Hamilton and Jennifer LaGarde. Congratulations, ladies!


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24 Infographics For Teacher-Librarians and Media Specialists

As I have mentioned many times before, I love infographics. Here are 24 I have added to the Media Specialists-Teacher Librarian page.




40 Years of E-books 

America's 100 Largest Libraries 

Anatomy of a Librarian 

Books VS eBooks 

eBooks: The Greener Choice 


The Evolution of the Book 

The Evolution of Classroom Technology 
 

Evolution of the Noble Librarian  

The Evolution of Story Telling 

The Evolution of Typography


The History of Science Fiction 

A History of Typography 


How Digital Devices are Replacing Textbooks 

How Google Works  

The Influential Power of Print


Is Print Dead? 

A Librarian's Worth Around the World

Most Targeted Books


Press Facts 

Publishing in the Digital Era


The Top 10 List of Mark Twain's Popular Quotes

U.S. Public Libraries at Risk 
 

A Visual Summary of Harry Potter 

What Makes Good Information Design? 


You Should Read This Before You Write That

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Web 2.0 Tools Pages Are Evolving......

As I continue to post my Web 2.0 resources, they will be added to the new pages at the top of my blog. As usual, your suggestions are always welcome.

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2011 Edublog Awards Nominations Are Open!

Last year I was fortunate enough to win an Edublog Award (First Runner Up) in the Best Library blog category. It was such an honor just to be nominated!


Since 2004, The Edublog Awards ("Eddies") have been given to recognize the contributions that bloggers have contributed to education. Anyone who has a blog can nominate their favorites in 18 categories:

1. Best individual blog
2. Best individual tweeter
3. Best group blog
4. Best new blog
5. Best class blog
6. Best student blog
7. Best ed tech / resource sharing blog
8. Most influential blog post
9. Best twitter hashtag
10. Best teacher blog
11. Best librarian / library blog
12. Best School Administrator blog
13. Best free web tool
14. Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast
15. Best educational wiki
16. Best open PD / unconference / webinar series
17. Best educational use of a social network
18. Lifetime achievement

Here's how to nominate:

• Write a post with your nominations on your blog, link to them and link to the Edublogs Awards site
• Use the form at the bottom of the Nominations Page to send a link to your nominations

I will be posting my nominations in the next few weeks.

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38 Different Types of Online Dictionaries

Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary- 3,000 terms defined

Answers.com- the best definitions & explanations for over one million topics!

ArtLex Art Dictionary- contains over 3600 terms, with images, quotations & cross referencing.

Babelfish -translate a block of text into 36 languages

Biographical Dictionary

The Columbia Gazetteer of North America

Computer Dictionary- over 14,00 computer-related terms

Dictionary.com

Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Dinosaur & Paleontology Dictionary -from A to Z

Dream Dictionary

EmTech Dictionary Listing -extensive list of dictionaries

ESL-EFL Dictionary

High Tech Dictionary

Hometown Locator -Location information for 1.8 million physical and cultural features with links to maps and aerial photos

How Many? -dictionary of units of measurement

IdiomDictionary- 5,000 idioms

Infoplease Encyclopedia and Dictionary: Dictionary Search gives you access to more than 125,000 complete, precisely defined entries.

Internet Picture Dictionary-choose from English, French, Spanish German or Italian

The Linguist List -dictionaries (extensive)

Little Explorers- picture dictionary with links; thirteen different languages to choose

Math Dictionary

Medical Dictionary

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Music Dictionary

Netlingo, the Internet Dictionary

OneLook Dictionary Search-over 19 million words indexed

Online Etymology Dictionary- explanations of what words mean and "how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago."

Rhyme Zone -rhyming dictionary & thesaurus

A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

United States Gazetteer- from the U.S. Census Bureau

Visual Dictionary Online- with 15 major themes and 6,000 images, this is a great interactive dictionary from Merriam-Webster.

Visuwords- online graphical dictionary

Voycabulary-online Web dictionary and thesaurus word linking tool; twenty-nine languages!

Webopedia -dictionary of Internet and web jargon

Wordia- words are brought to life through video

Write Express Rhyming Dictionary

Your Dictionary.com -translate foreign languages

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