Author Archives: Kristin Fontichiaro
Hooray! Free SYNC Audio Books for Summer ’13 Announced!
Hooray! Summer is coming, and with it comes free weekly downloads of full-text young adult books. Each week, download a pair of titles according to the schedule below. Once you download them, they never expire, so this is my chance to … Continue reading
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Salon.com: Reading Comprehension Onscreen May Not Be As Deep
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by jblyberg Salon.com has a fabulous long-form article summarizing a series of studies about retention, comprehension, and memory as it relates to reading onscreen versus in print. I have long had a … Continue reading
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Save the Date: Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire 6/8/2013
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Badging isn’t really about badges
In a conversation with a colleague about advice she had received to include badging in a project design, I asked, “What did the advisor push you to have badging do inside your project?” She responded, “I think right now, they’re mostly just … Continue reading
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Metaphors for Badging
“sunday afternoon, hands on hips” cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Jack Lord There are a lot of people on our campus and in our community thinking about badging, the Open Badges project, and badging for learning. On … Continue reading
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Badges — Like Portfolios?
“The Human Zoo,” cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by an untrained eye A few days ago I was noodling ideas for a student paper topic, and the words “portfolios” and “digital badges” popped into my head. And … Continue reading
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Review of Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers
Thank you to Mary Alice Anderson, who reviewed Growing Schools: Librarians as Proefssional Developers on her blog: Staff development is an important, exciting role for school library media specialists. Media specialists have a unique perspective of the school and curriculum; they … Continue reading
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PhotoSynq An Open Project to Crowdsource Plant Data Collection
Our colleague and Makers as Innovators series co-author Greg Austic (Game Design, Cherry Lake Publishing, Fall 2013) is working on Photosynq, a cool new project at Michigan State University. He and his teammates in the Kramer Lab are creating a … Continue reading
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UMSI’s Quasi-Con featured at OpenSource.com
Congratulations to Victoria Lungu, Sharona Ginsberg, Shauna Masura, and Kelly Davenport, who have published a post at OpenSource.com. The team created digital badging for Quasi-Con 2013, a student-run unconference held at the University of Michigan School of Information. From the … Continue reading
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