K-12Librarians

"AASL provides this definition: Advocacy is the ongoing process of building partnerships so that others will act for and with you, turning passive support into educated action for the library program."

Some of the new lesson plans on Canva's education page include comic book creation, a lesson on sugar in our diets, and a lesson on illustrating ideas with infographics. That last lesson plan takes advantage of Canva's new infographic design templates. To use the infographic templates or any of the other design templates in Canva simply log-in and open the design menu. Each template can be customized with your own images, fonts, and colors. You can also customize the dimensions of each template.

ISTE Keynote by teacher librarian Jennifer LaGarde. She gave a great speech that asks all TL's to question what sort of librarian they are. Are we preparing for the future or stuck in the past. - or to put it another way Are we Zombie librarians or zombie fighters?

A useful comic poster from CC Poland offers a good resource to begin discussions about Creative Commons. 6 types of licenses are discussed with with their separate conditions attached to each of them. "

Great infogrpahic that creates a great image of Sci-Fi information that I was explaining to students not long ago. Much clearer here!

The infographic presents research highlights from all of Library Research Service's (LRS) school library impact studies. There are 2 versions available - one for digital viewing and one for printing.

Find or upload EPUB ebooks to read online, from any browser.

Data supporting many of the things we knew already. Sometimes things need to be repeated.

Simple little videoi accompany readings

Google has been scanning millions of books and uploading them so they can be read for free online. There are currently 20 million books that can be accessed for free through books.google.com, with the company's stated goal of having every book ever printed available. The major publishers of the world have been trying to sue them to stop this from the time they began the project. "Lawsuits trying to stop Google Books have been ongoing since 2005, and Thursday, eight years later, a judge finally ruled in Google's favour. Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. district court wrote that Google's scanning constitutes fair use because it alters the form the text appears in, and also uses some clever code to prevent the material from being copied en masse by users. Google Books "advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders."

ALIA futures Summit. Librarians & culture of shared knowledge.Mark Pesce shares his keynote address on his blog

Word Hippo offers more than a dozen tools for students. Students can use when trying to find definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and translations for words. It also provides students with verb conjugation assistance, pronunciation assistance, and assistance with prefixes and suffixes. Word Hippo offers more than a dozen tools for students.