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Excellent rich website for ePortfolios.

Awesome wiki of resources for advocacy and frugal tips for school libraries.

Pinterest is a digital pinboard application which started just last year but has quickly become one of the top 10 most trafficked social networking websites according to Hitwise. During the second week in December the website had over 11 million visitors. This is pretty impressive considering that the site is still in the invite-only stage.

It's time for school librarians to step out and enlighten their communities about
all the ways their libraries impact students' education.

"It's time for school librarians to step out and enlighten their communities about all the ways their libraries impact students' education."

"On this site, you will find message templates (sample e-mails, letters, newsletter blurbs, brochures, and even videos) containing these taglines and targeting specific stakeholder audiences in order to promote school librarians as 21st century skills experts. We hope that these sample templates will be used by school librarians and school library advocates to inform their communities about the vital and irreplaceable role that school librarians play in teaching and learning. Maybe you'll get inspired to create something for us that we can use, too. In the meantime, we hope you find this site helpful."

The Common Core Standards (CCS) are at hand! They are often referred to as National Standards and they carry impact for student learning, teaching, and school librarians. But how? What is the real story?

model school highlighted in the video 

A summary of discussions at the 10th anniversary New Media Consortium Horizon Project special convocation and retreat.

Listening, collaborating

"Much has been written about the role of Teacher Librarians in our schools.   Sadly though, much of it is lamentations about the decreasing numbers of Teacher Librarians manning our school libraries.  Every so often though, I come across inspiring words that do much to remind us of the incredible skill and value held by this professional group."

Mobilary is a project of the Chicago Public Schools Department of Libraries & Information Services. Its purpose is to provide recommendation for the implementation of mobile technologies in our district's school library programs to successfully impact teaching and learning. Through the collective experiences of our librarians combined with action research and data collection, we will develop a body of best practices and knowledge related to these technologies.

Interesting holiday viewing.  Carr introduces the idea that the constant distractions of the internet may be affecting our attention spans and points to research showing that hypertexted material is harder to comprehend due to the distraction and decision making required, which detracts from "deep reading".