Steven W. Anderson is a recognized expert in using social media in education. Steven regularly consults with schools and districts around the country on how they can use social media to break down barriers and extend learning beyond the classroom walls. A regular presenter at ASCD, ISTE and various other state/local conferences, Steven speaks on [...]
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Update to Website Evaluation
May 8, 2012 – 3:44 pm
Good news for every educator who needs ways to teach information literacy skills: EasyBib’s Website Evaluation tool just got even better! We’ve made the explanation of our criteria more robust than ever. Now when students need to understand what questions they should be asking themselves about the credibility of a source they can get concise [...]
EasyBib Temporary Tattoos
May 8, 2012 – 12:36 pm
Hey all you Bibs out there in LibraryLand! EasyBib wants to create some fun, “library themed”, temporary tattoos for all our librarian friends to wear. But instead of us just coming up with designs we thought you might like, we decided we want to hear what kind of tats you think would look cool So [...]
How to use a single iPad to benefit your entire class
May 2, 2012 – 9:00 am
Adam Bellow, founder of eduTecher.net, was recognized in 2011 as the Outstanding Young Educator of the Year by ISTE. Adam has been sharing his vision for education reform by harnessing the power of technology with thousands of educators from around the country for the past several years. Considered an expert in the area of Web [...]
The Barbell Problem: How Students Find Jobs at Startups
April 26, 2012 – 9:00 am
Chris Johnson is an entrepreneur and currently the co-founder of Wakefield, a daily email read by students that features startup companies, people, and products. ——————– We often get asked why we created Wakefield. (In startup parlance, it’s typically framed as: “What problem does this solve?”) The answer is that while there’s growing attention on the [...]
Asking the Right Question
April 25, 2012 – 9:00 am
Mary Beth Hertz is a certified Instructional Technology Specialist and K-7 Technology Teacher in Philadelphia, PA. She has presented at a number of conferences and is a blogger and avid user of social media. She is also a co-organizer of Edcamp Philly and sits on the Edcamp Foundation Board. She was also named an ISTE [...]
Alternative Search Tools
April 18, 2012 – 9:00 am
Steven W. Anderson is a recognized expert in using social media in education. Steven regularly consults with schools and districts around the country on how they can use social media to break down barriers and extend learning beyond the classroom walls. A regular presenter at ASCD, ISTE and various other state/local conferences, Steven speaks on [...]
Infographic: Information Literacy Issues
April 10, 2012 – 10:47 am
Developing information literacy skills is perhaps the most important issue in 21st Century Learning and yet the struggle to do so is an uphill battle. We asked our friends in the library world what they think of the state of information literacy in schools. Check out this cool infographic to see what we learned.
Hunger Games Mania
March 29, 2012 – 5:54 pm
There’s no doubt that The Hunger Games is a wildly popular book, especially with young people. But are students actually reading it for reasons other than entertainment. If you take a look at the graph of site usage on EasyBib, you’ll see selected data for the number of times The Hunger Games has been cited [...]
