Google Apps for Education: Building Knowledge in a Safe and Free Environment
Most educators are aware of the various Google Apps such as Google Docs, Google Images, Google Calendar and many others. Fewer are acquainted with Google’s free and safe environment for a school where students, teachers, teacher librarians, teacher technologists and other specialists can collaborate without the worries of intrusion by outsiders. Within this closed environment, there are selected Google Apps such as email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, sites, video, and start up pages among others.
Author Profile: David V. Loertscher is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University. He is a past president of the American Association of School Librarians and an international consultant.
For many years, our friends have known us as Hi Willow Research & Publishing, but with the new emphasis of our work being the creation and development of the Learning Commons in school and academic libraries, we have established a new imprint that is easier to remember: All our titles will continue to be distributed by LMC Source, with the exception of a new distributor for Australia and New Zealand, Syba Signs!
You can get more information about Syba Signs at http://www.sybasigns.com.au
We invite authors to submit manuscripts dealing with 21st Century library issues so that you can join us as a source of high quality thinking about the role and functioning of libraries in the information and technology rich era.
As we develop new titles and revise older ones, we are creating Book2Coud editions as collaborative ver- sions that will be explained below. All these materials will be published under the Learning Commons Press imprint. New titles under this imprint include:
• The School Learning Commons Where Learners Win. 2nd edition
• Knowledge Building in the Learning Commons: Papers of the Tres. Mt. Research Retreat #17 (2011)
• Collection Development Using the Collection Mapping Technique (a refresh edition).
Other titles will be emerging shortly and will be listed on the LMC Source website.
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Please check our freebies sections for materials and information you can use in addition to our book extensions.
We are looking for authors of significant manuscripts for school library media specialists. Contact David V. Loertscher at reader.david@gmail.com with your ideas.
Our newest titles:
The Virtual Learning Commons: Building a Participatory School Learning Community
Young Adult Literature and Multimedia: A Quick Guide 2012
The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win! 2nd Ed.
Knowledge Building in the Learning Commons: Treasure Mountain 17
Google Apps for Education: Building Knowledge in a Safe and Free Environment
Treasure Mountain Canada
Building a Learning Commons
Learning Commons Treasury
I Second that Emotion: Sharing Children’s and Young Adult Poetry: a 21stCentury Resource Guide for Teachers
The Big Think: 9 Metacognative Stratagies That Make the End Just the Beginning of Learning
Issues: Think Models for Collaborative Knowledge Building
People: Think Models for Collaborative Model Building
Places: Think Models for Collaborative Model Building
Connections: Papers of the Treasure Mountain Research Retreat, Nov. 4-5, 2009, Charlotte, NC
Treasure Mountain Treasury #1: Using Online Resources
Collection Development Using the Collection Mapping Technique
A Guide for Librarians
Best Teen Reads 2010
A Painless Guide to Research Using Web 2.0 Tools: Under the Umbrella of 21st Century Teaching Skills
Building a Learning Commons
As a companion to The New School Learning Commons Where Learners Win, this book is a planning guide for administrators and those interested in establishing a Learning Commons that reinvents the role of the school library and computer labs in the school. Chock full of checklists, planning forms, an organizational suggestions, this guide is a handy tool. It begins with a brief explanation of what a Learning Commons is and its role in total school improvement and then step by step goes through the aspects of program, physical facilities, changing technologies and ends with a variety of assessment tools to guage progress.
Learning Commons Treasury
In this third publication, the editors have gathered together 25 articles they have solicited about the Learning Commons idea over the past several years and published in Teacher Librarian. Articles lay the foundation of the Common, provide real examples from teacher librarians who have established a learning commons in their school, provide a glimpse into curriculum matters related to the Commons, the technology needed to make the Commons a success, a guide for the staff and role of specialists in the Commons, and finally several articles dealing with assessing impact on teaching and learning. This trio is a valuable collection for reinventing the nature of school libraries into a 21st century model.
The Virtual Learning Commons: Building a Participatory School Learning Community
This book is a companion to and an extension of, The New Learning Commons Where Learners Win 2nd edition, published in 2011. In that volume, we presented the idea that the school library and computer lab be merged into a single entity in the school, and that this new place be reinvented from the ground up in order to become a giant collaborative.
In the past year, as we have watched Learning Commons develop around North America, we have discerned the need to elaborate on the virtual part of the the Learning Commons that would replace the often bypassed school library website.