A Painless Guide to Research Using Web 2.0 Tools
21st Century skills documents by various professional organizations have presented a complex challenge to teacher librarians to combine the teaching of inquiry and personal habits, critical and creative thinking. When the authors noted that a collaborative learning thread ran through all the skills documents, Web 2.0 technologies came to mind as a way to teach the research process and meet the areas of 21st century learning at the same time.
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Best Teen Reads 2010
Completely updated for 2010, Sharron McElmeel has compiled a list including the last several years of teen publications that have received star reviews in the reviewing media or have been tapped as award-winning books in the past year.
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Beyond bird units! Thinking and Understanding in Information-Rich and Technology-Rich Environments Refresh Edition
The authors of the popular Ban Those Bird Units have joined their talents once more to provide more ways to create very high-level think units when teachers bring learning activities into the information-rich and technology-rich environment of the library.
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Build Your Own Information Literate School
According to David Loertscher this is the very best information literacy book to appear in years and is extremely useful and practical for elementary through high school because of its unique approach.
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Collection Development Using the Collection Mapping Technique
More than a decade ago, David Loertscher introduced the concept of collection mapping in two different books mostly to the audience of school librarians of the time. It received some attention at that time because it contained a simple method of dividing the collection into various segments that became a part of a visual representation of collection strengths and weaknesses. Much has happened in the last decade that has put into major question what it is libraries should own and what it should provide access to across a wide spectrum of information and for what types of devices.
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Easy Marc: Incorporating Format Integration 5th ed
If you have an automated cataloging system and do any cataloging using the MARC records, this is the users bible.
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In Command! Kids and Teens Build and Manage Their Own Informaiton Spaces, And...
Most school libraries have a web site or blog that provide a wealth of resources and links to information. However, young people may be saying, “We love you, library, but we love Google more.” This book and accompanying website takes a new approach in the battle to capture the attention and serve student needs: It asks each child and teen to construct their own home page using iGoogle, and construct three sections of their own information space.
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Issues: Think Models for Collaborative Knowledge Building
Three of the most common topics covered in school curriculum involve people, places and issues. If teacher librarians could make a major difference in transforming bird units in just these three areas across the grade level, we would have established a major beachhead in our march toward the center of teaching and learning. In each of the three volumes, the authors have collected their best ideas from all they have written and built over the past ten years; have re-examined each example of a transformed learning experience.
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Connections: Papers of the Treasure Mountain Research Retreat, Nov. 4-5, 2009, Charlotte, NC
These proceedings are the fifteenth meeting of the Treasure Mt. researchers and practitioners spanning 20 years. The current set of papers covers connections between the field of school librarianship and the wider world of education and technology. The purpose of this meeting as with all the retreats is to build major conceptual ideas for the field. These procedings are but a fraction of what was covered at the think tank but points in the connection direction along with research reports about a variety of other issues in the field.
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People: Think Models for Collaborative Model Building
Three of the most common topics covered in school curriculum involve people, places and issues. If teacher librarians could make a major difference in transforming bird units in just these three areas across the grade level, we would have established a major beachhead in our march toward the center of teaching and learning. In each of the three volumes, the authors have collected their best ideas from all they have written and built over the past ten years; have re-examined each example of a transformed learning experience.
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Places: Think Models for Collaborative Model Building
Three of the most common topics covered in school curriculum involve people, places and issues. If teacher librarians could make a major difference in transforming bird units in just these three areas across the grade level, we would have established a major beachhead in our march toward the center of teaching and learning. In each of the three volumes, the authors have collected their best ideas from all they have written and built over the past ten years; have re-examined each example of a transformed learning experience
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The Big Think: 9 Metacognative Stratagies That Make the End Just the Beginning of Learning
The Big Think introduces the same reflection strategies for both classroom teachers and teacher librarians. Here are nine strategies to use as we analyze “the game” – no, the learning activity, particularly when both the teacher and the classroom teacher have been struggling to improve teaching and learning.
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The New Learning Commons Where Learners Win! Reinventing School Libraries and Computer Labs
Loertscher, Koechlin, and Zwaan team up in this book to rethink everything about the function and role of school libraries and computer labs. It is often a case of 180 degree reconsideration. What does this mean? The profession has been on a command and control model: If we build it, they will come. We build a website and expect students and teachers to use it on our terms. They Google, instead. We expect teachers to appreciate the collections we build. They want classroom collections. We open our doors during the school day. Our patrons want 24/7-365 service.
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Treasure Mountain Treasury #1: Using Online Resources
Jennifer Robins, a professor at the University of Central Missouri has collected the best articles from previous collections of the Treasure Mountain Research Retreat papers on the topic of using online resources with children and teens. Several of the papers are new to this collection. Wit funding under attack for databases and their use, this collection re-establishes the foundational arguments for creating a high quality information environment in theera of the Google search. Readers will appreciate the excellent advice by prominent names in the school library profession.
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Young Adult Literature and Multimedia: A Quick Guide 2012
Two- and four-page spreads cover many genres in Young Adult Literature and Multimedia. Each spread gives a history of the genre, sample titles, and spotlights authors and how to keep up in that particular genre.
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