Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

The 21st century information landscape is rich with media and it is natural for students and teachers to want to incorporate this wealth in their own work. New copyright friendly archives are recognizing and responding to these educational needs while they remove many of the legal and ethical thorns. Most students are aware that they [...]

Over the past couple of few months, I’ve caught up my favorite ed tech experts through their podcasts, guest lectured at a university using Skype, a peer-to-peer telephony product, created two blogs, and I’ve built a major project with my graduate school classmates using a wiki,  The world is exploding with new easy tools for [...]

Rich Levin of PC Talk Radio wrote today to correct my podcast post and Inquirer and to offer additional advice to teachers: Hi Joyce, I want to make you aware of a serious technical error in your otherwise superb 9/4 column. Podcasting is not as simple as posting digital audio for download over the Web.  Posting digital [...]

Over the last week, I’ve been working hard to create new tools for instruction and to improve our Virtual Library.  I love comments and suggestions! New stuff includes: Databases by Subject (in response to senior suggestions) http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/databasessubject.html PowerSearching 501: A Crash Review Course for Seniors http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/searchskills.ppt Scholarly vs. Popular vs. Trade vs. Primary Sources (discussion of [...]