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Mansel Wells

Whichbook - 0 views

www.whichbook.net

shared by Mansel Wells on 27 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Mansel Wells on 29 Dec 08
     
    Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define. The standard way of organising books for choice, on shelves in a library or a bookshop, or on the web, starts from the products available - the authors, titles, publishers or genres. Whichbook enables the choice of book to start from the individual reader and what they are looking for.
Rhondda Powling

YALSA's Teens' Top Ten Nominations Announced! | The Hub - 2 views

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YALSA YA-literature top10 nominations hub

shared by Rhondda Powling on 13 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 13 Apr 12
     
    The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list where every title is nominated and voted on by teens. The 2012 nominations have been posted on the YALSA website so that teens across the country can read them all summer; voting will be happen over August and September, and the winners will be announced during Teen Read Week in October.
Mansel Wells

TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills - 0 views

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InformationLiteracy assessment

shared by Mansel Wells on 23 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Mansel Wells on 23 Dec 08
     
    TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.
Cathy Oxley

Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 11/1/2008 - School Library Journal - 1 views

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libraries DavidLoertscher future vision paradigmshift

shared by Cathy Oxley on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • We’ve created and invested in library media centers—and, in recent years, their Web sites—with the expectation that our students will come to these places. Sorry folks, but the old paradigm is broken. It’s time to become part of the Google generation. If we polled our students, we’d probably discover that they’re busy searching online, and maybe IMing or texting each other. Our school libraries and Web sites are the last things on most kids’ minds. At some point, we have to admit that our creations have become irrelevant to today’s students. There isn’t time for business as usual.
  • We don’t need a revision. We need a reinvention.
  • If we want to connect with the latest generation of learners and teachers, we have to totally redesign the library from the vantage point of our users—our thinking has to do a 180-degree flip.
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  • What we’re proposing is bold. Gone are the days when we can afford to exist on the periphery. The new learning commons is at the very center of teaching and learning. No longer will the library be something that students and teachers need to remember to come to—instead it will be integrated into their lives. Finally, the library will become the hub of teaching and learning—a place that everyone owns and contributes to—one giant conversation that’s both a social and a learning network. Face it, folks. We’re at a crossroads. Doing nothing, trying to shore up the status quo, or attempting to resuscitate a dead model aren’t feasible choices. It’s like mom saying, “Either eat your spinach or go to bed.” We may not like it, but let’s start eating.
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