If you have never met Dr. Bell you are missing a treat. Fiesty, fun, and way ahead of her time. She recently started her own blog and voiced concern about how schools are blocking many of the web 2.0 sites that she was planning to talk abou tin her TCEA presentation.
Dr. Bell’s presentation was called Fun, New and Free Ideas and Services Via the Internet. If you click on her name above it will take you to the portal to her site where you can access the links she shared as well as previous presentations.
She gives links to all kinds of useful sites as well as complete text professional online journals.
One link Dr. Bell showed was Starfall, a site for elementary phonics and reading . She recommended some blogs to read and I will list them but let you check out the rest on the handout on her site.
One of the library blogs led me to a great Geography resource – Library of Congress Portals to the World.
Dr. Bell also mentioned Bernie Poole‘s site where you can find tons of resources and if you click on the link on the left side title online books you can download entire books he has written including several wonderful tutorials on using Microsoft Office.
Nancy Pearl was with her as usual. Nancy Pearl is the fabulous “shushing” librarian figurine that travels everywhere with Dr. Bell and gets her picture taken in the most interesting places. You can find her photos on Flickr.
My goodness! Thanks so much! I just happened upon this. I had a lot of fun at TCEA this year. Thanks so much for the kind words.–Mary Ann
PS Nancy is excited that you mentioned her!
Thanks for including me in your post. We are adding the Portal to the World links to our OPAC. The students will be able have the website for each country profiled come up as they search for other items such as books…one-stop searching!!