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This is an amazing illustration of Sir Kenneth Robinson's presentation on schooling in the 21st century.  It's fascinating to watch an illustrator create a visual map of Robinson's ideas as they are spoken.  The content of the presentation is enormously important to any educator struggling to change the system.  It's even more important to those who've been subdued and mislead by old ideas into thinking they can't learn or create.

Classic book illustrations made available for reuse. Wonderful!

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Who's Awake in Springtime? by Phillis Gershator and Mim Green (Authors) and Emilie Chollat (Illustrator), a small child asks the question… Who's asleep? and one by one, the animals answer… Not I.

From the site: The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). 

By Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC: "This article discusses the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions."

inaugural laureate to be announced on 10 Dec 2011

Arranged visiits and virtual visits of authors and artists to schools and libraries