http://fpentlin.edublogs.org Reflections on the role of the school library media center Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:20:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/04/22/washington-moms-do-it-again/ 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 ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/03/09/north-central-evaluation/ 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 ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/03/05/books-on-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ 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 ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/03/03/school-vs-library/ 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 ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/03/02/michigan-has-its-act-together/ I have to say that was very disappointed to find advertising stuck in my student's blog this morning. It was the first time that I had seen this although there has been quite a discussion about it on LM_NET, and evidently in many blogs as well. To see those links embedded ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/advertising-in-edublogs/ A research project by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg was published recently entitled, Finding Context: What Today's College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_ProgressReport_2_2009.pdf has some interesting things to say about how college students go about their research. It might have equally interesting things ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/02/23/conducting-research-in-the-digital-age/ "This is what I have to work with, these are my resources, and this is what I need for a final product. How can I make this work." "Learning to Change, Changing to Learn - Kid's Tech" http://www.schooltube.com/video/21838/Learning-to-Change-Changing-to-Learn--Kids-Tech I love this video. It bespeaks the technology revolution that some of our students are ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/02/20/of-strawberry-shortcake-and-resources/ Steven Cohen on his blog Library Stuff points to a posting made by Owen Strachan's blog posting "Where do Libraries Go to Die?" which has the following quotation: I feel for librarians. This is a tough age. Trained to share a passion for one of the sweetest specimens of common grace, ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/02/19/yikes-were-a-speed-bump-on-the-information-highway/ Sara Kelley Johns in her blog, From the Inside Out has posted a discussion and a link to a great New York Times article on school librarians, "In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update." It is a terrific article with pictures and a video. Yee-hah! We need these rays of light ... http://fpentlin.edublogs.org/2009/02/16/ny-times-role-of-the-school-lms/