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Nancy Keane (booktalk queen!) just posted her latest creation on LM_NET. She is now podcasting on her long running Booktalks Quick and Simple site http://www.nancykeane.com/booktalks and she plans to publish a new podcast booktalk everyday. I was delighted to discover the first talk was on my favorite YA read of the year–Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. [...]

When I visited with EdTechTalk hosts, Dave Cormier and Jeff Lebow, on Wednesday, they turned me onto Second Life. I am so very green in this space, but from what I understand, this highly populated (by nearly 200,000 people) virtual environment–an artifical world with its own economy and real estate–is home to a whole universe of [...]

Wednesday night at EdTechTalk the discussion focused on a different type of application for wiki technology.  Mark Hemphill from the University of Prince Edward Island examined the possibility of wiki books from a cultural angle and, as an old storyteller, my mind raced with the possibilities.  Like wikis, folktales, folk music, oral histories, in fact the [...]

Just when so many in the educational world are beginning to believe in the value of blogging and wikis in curriculum, Congress is introducing legislation that will require all schools and libraries to filter student access to online social networks or risk losing federal Internet subsidies.  The bill, designed to “protect minors from commercial social networking websites [...]

  I hope that on Mother’s Day you’ll indulge reflections that have little to do with searching or learning or libraries.  While many of my colleagues at school are buying their first diaper bags, my baby graduated from Penn State yesterday. Despite the rain it was a lovely weekend filled with “last times.”  Last poses by the lion, [...]