Salem Press awarded their Library Blog Awards in 5 categories: General Library Blogs, Quirky Library Blogs, Academic Library Blogs, Public Library Blogs, and School Library Blogs. I'm familiar with blogs in all 5 categories, but (perhaps unsurprisingly) the only category in which I subscribe to more than one blog is Quirky. I wonder what that says about me....
Salem Press Library Blog Awards
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Advocating for School Libraries
The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) recently released a paper entitled " “School Libraries, Now More Than Ever: The CISSL Position Paper on Library Cuts." The paper discusses the critical need for school libraries, despite the current trend towards slashing budgets and school library programs, and backs up that discussion with decades of research on how school libraries improve learning and standardized test scores. This is a great advocacy tool! For more information on this paper and on CISSL, check out this article from the School Library Journal: CISSL Defends the Need for School Librarians Amid Budget Cuts
"School libraries are powerful agents of learning, central to engaging students in the transformation of information into deep knowledge and understanding, and providing them with life skills to continue living, learning and working in an information- and technology-intense world."
via iLibrarian:
Top Ten 2.0 Tools for the Classroom
"Educator John Steltz blogs about his Top Ten 2.0 Tools for 2010 which he’s used in his classroom teaching. In addition to this annotated list he also shares another 18 applications which have also been used in his teaching this past semester."
Great ideas for using 2.0 in the classroom!
Inspiring ways to use social media in the classroom
From OnlineUniversities.com comes this great post on incorporating social media into classroom settings. Great ideas for teachers and school librarians! A few of my favorites:
- Make literature real. Have students create a Facebook page for a character from literature you are studying like this class did.
- Tweet famous conversations. Have students tweet imagined conversations between famous literary figures such as Romeo and Juliet, Sherlock Holmes and Watson, or Dante and Beatrice.
- Share interesting websites. Both students and instructors can share interesting websites related to class topics via social media.
- Poll the class. Use polls as an interactive teaching tool in class using the Poll app for Facebook or PollDaddy for Twitter.
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