I just saw a reference in the AASL Blog to this posting in School Library Journal about school library programs being supported in a most concrete and dynamic way.
After months of wrangling, Washington lawmakers late last night passed the basic education reform bill, which includes a permanent line item for school library materials—and an allocation of [...]
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Debbie Stafford posted an interesting discussion about North Central accreditation on the AASL Blog. Having been a high school librarian, the secondary schools were particularly concerned with our North Central status. Some of the elementary schools even sought North Central accreditation. However, much of that changed with meeting the Missouri School Improvement Program standards and [...]
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I have a deep and abiding love affair with my iPod Touch. I wanted the iPhone but couldn’t talk the wife into changing phone providers so this was as close to cool as I could get.
At any rate…
I’ve had lively discussions with my selection classes about why they are still buying print books. Of course, [...]
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This video has popped up on a number of blogs. It is so powerful to hear a student compare the restrictions of the classroom to the freedoms students enjoy in the library. However, I couldn’t help but wonder if he would have had the same thing to say about the school library.
Have we put so [...]
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MAME – Michigan Association for Media in Education has put together a terrific wiki helping LMSs in the state (and everywhere else, thank you WWW) to implement in AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. There is a lot of good information there, but I particularly thought the visualization of the standards by four strands, four [...]
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