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- Answer: Your everyday fact-checking? What do you do?We all need some basic fact-checking skills... This week's Challenge was about what you do in your personal fact-checking. How often do you check? How do you check? What do you check? A wave of assertions comes at you every day.Which are correct? Which ones do you check? How do you check? I gave the example of reading that over 1 million acres of Ca […]
- A few wildfire monitoring and satellite image sites (Sept 12, 2020) People keep asking me: Dan, what's the best site to monitor the fires in California? Or a variation on that: What's the best site to get satellite images of fires in the West? Without going into all the detail, here's my list of favorite sites, and a brief explanation about what each has that's special. 1. Zoom.earth – excellent near- […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (9/9/20): Your everyday fact-checking? What do you do? In the swirl of current news and political tempests, we all need some basic fact-checking skills... ... and I'm curious about what you do to exercise the ability to do some basic checks on the things you read. A wave of assertions comes at you every day. Which are correct? Which ones do you check? How do you check? For instance, I recently read an arti […]
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Making it on the 4th Floor | Chattanooga Public Library
Want to get really excited about ‘Maker Spaces’ in libraries? Read about what the Chattanooga Public Library has done with heretofore storage space. I can’t wait to implement some of their ideas into my next job.Not as large in scope, … Continue reading
K-12 Resource Guide: Resources by Content Area
K-12 Resource Guide: Resources by Content Area. Awesome resource list provided by UW Educational Outreach for those working with youth (children & teens) in the Puget Sound region.
What is Connected Learning?
What is Connected Learning | Connected Learning. I was fortunate enough to attend a CAYAS training (CAYAS is WA state’s youth services special interest group) on “Connected Training on Nov 1st. Although Connected Learning is applicable to all ages, the … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Learning, Information Science
Tagged CAYAS, learning methods, library services, teens
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New Literary NF Teen Book: “Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment”
Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment by Carla Killough McClafferty; published Sept 1, 2013; 9781467710671. From this book’s very first account – in 1897 – of the death of University of Georgia college sophomore and defensive lineman,Von Gammon,this book shows how … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Non-fiction
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Random House acquires Teen Author site, “Figment”
A while ago, on my library’s Teen Blog, I posted an article about “Figment”, a website community of over 300,000 of authors, most between the ages of 13-18, passionate about creating, discovering, and sharing stories. How cool is it that there … Continue reading
Posted in Online Resources, Organizations
Tagged authors, online communities, teen authors
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October = Teen Read Month
I love that YALSA devotes an entire month to Teen Reading – it offers a great opportunity for going to schools and discussing book titles as well as some great homework help services offered by libraries (like Brainfuse’s daily one-on-one … Continue reading
