This provides so much food for thought – school librarians please take a look – and really, everyone in LIS – how will can we provide them a world for learning?
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Dr Michael Stephens delivered the Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held in Perth, Western Australia, from 29 September to 2 October 2009. Reprinted with permission from the Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) Access 2010 24(1): 5. The evolving Web is an open and social place. The Web has [...] Don’t miss: http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/11/7/signs-signs-everywhere-theres-signs.html I walk into too many libraries with signs like this:
What might happen if we replaced our welcome signs with ones like these?
Where would kids learn best? OK, let me have it. A Teacher’s Guide To Web 2.0 at School View more documents from Sacha Chua. VIA Hey Jude
Tuesday I spent the day with some great school librarians from the Houston ISD. I keynoted their all day inservice with “The Hyperlinked School Library: Explore, Engage, Encourage” and did two sessions on Tech Trends and a Q&A clsing session. It was a great day! There’s nothing like that Texas hospitality!
http://schoolof.info/infomancy/?p=588 Christopher Harris writes: In the Standards in Action book, there is a great 2-page spread on the self-assessment strand that speaks directly to the student. One librarian asked if she could make copies of the pages to share with students. That led me, as an ethical user of information, to check on the copyright and permissions [...] Chelmsford Library Revamped: In the place formerly known as the library, students perch on long-legged chairs and huddle in purple and black booths. Once a week, they drink coffee and discuss books in the Java Room. They watch a history lesson, school news, and CNN on a 58-inch flat-panel “digital kiosk.” Just don’t call it the library. [...] A School Librarian writes: Dear Michael – I sat down with a bunch of my middle school students as they came into the library today and we talked about how we could transform our little public school library into a fabulous space for them. They had great ideas, and I shared some of YOUR ideas with them. I [...] |
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