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K-12 Hot Topic Technology Webinars

Check out these free webinars from Project Tomorrow® and T.H.E. Journal for those interested in K-12 IT issues: Aug 19 Mobile Devices within Instruction     Sep 16 Digital Content     Oct 14 Web 2.0 and Education     Oct 28 21st Century Skills     Nov 11 Top 10 Trends in Student Learning with Technology     Dec [...]

FAQs not rules!

This is terrific – instead of a list of library rules The Unquiet Library has Frequently Asked Questions. Buffy Hamilton created a fun slide-based mini-orientation that is included in their  library research guides for specific classes. Take a look at the guide for an 11th grade English class as an example. Buffy is using LibGuides [...]

Upcoming School Library Workshops

It’s almost August and it finally feels like summer. And for me August is full of workshops for school library media specialists. WSWHE BOCES SLS August 6 – Wikis and Blogs August 7 – Digital Storytellling August 27 – Google Greats For more info and registration Oswego & OCM BOCES SLS August 12 & 13 [...]

KidLib Camp 2009 – August 13

Don’t miss this unconference! KidLibCamp – for librarians interested in youth service in school & public libraries. KidLibCamp 2009 is a place for youth services librarians to get together and talk about topics that are important to serving children in school and public libraries. KidLibCamp is an unconference that asks participants to share their work, [...]

Elementary School 2.0

Buffy Hamilton (The Unquiet Librarian) posted some great examples today of how elementary schools are using social media to communicate with faculty, parents & students. Read her post! I wanted to highlight two of her examples from Christina Bentheim at the Dickens Elementary School in North Las Vegas, NV. 1: A wiki page chock full [...]

Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don’t Know Social Media?

Image via Wikipedia This should be a great discussion!!! Participate live – Thursday night. Join us tomorrow on the Future of Education at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) when Joyce Valenza leads a discussion on the future of librarians and their role in education. Special guests: Buffy Hamilton, Cathy Nelson, [...]