Jeff sits down with Dave Gladney and Gail Dickinson from the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative to discuss their great new search tool for students.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Podcast Topics

• What is AEP?
• What is LMRI?
• How can students take advantage of LRMI?
• How can educators take advantage of LRMI?
• Using Search to Curate Knowledge
• How can publishers take advantage of LRMI?
• What are other educators/schools saying about LRMI?
• EASE Program and how to win an Amazon Gift Card

Featured Links

• Learning Resource Metadata Initiave (LRMI)
• LRMI Wiki
• LRMI Blog
• Twitter

Featured Guests

Dave Gladney is the Project Manager for the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a standard metadata framework for tagging instructional materials on the web. Dave oversees AEP’s efforts to build awareness and encourage adoption of the LRMI throughout the educational resource community.

Dave joined AEP as Writer/Editor in 2004 after completing the graduate writing program at Rowan University. Before moving on to the LRMI, he was AEP’s marketing manager from 2008-2011. Dave is a graduate of Rutgers University, where he received a B.A. in English and spent two years as a staff writer for the school newspaper, The Daily Targum.

Gail Dickinson is associate professor of school librarianship at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.  She is president-elect of the American Association of School Librarians and is also editor-in-chief of Library Media Connection magazine.