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Elaine Plybon's livebinder on social media use in the classroom.  This includes sites that simulate social media tools.

Great list to help raise awareness

Great resources on developing social media for a school.  Includes AMLE presentation slides

The wiki is a project of the school library media faculty at the University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information Science. It is intended to provide background on the need for documenting the school library media program's impact on student learning as well as resources to support that effort.

Great Websites for Kids (GWS) , the Association for Library Service to Children's (ALSC) online website directory, has been completely redesigned. The updated site boasts a fresh and colorful kid-friendly look and interactive social media enhancements. Clear, bright icons display subject categories and appear on every page, while eye-catching thumbnail images provide a visual preview of each great site represented. Special sections highlight Sites of the Week and Month, Most Popular pages and Top Rated selections. Prompts for each site offer "more selections like this." Visitors can actively connect with the site and further their online experience by rating sites; sharing their favorites on social media sites such as Facebook; and emailing recommendations to friends.

Many great examples and lesson plans for media literacy.

"Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology."

This particular page has a music video about returning overdues; the entire media webpage looks like it has many great ideas.

Gwyneth Jones' media center page

This is the website to accompany a simple, powerful book about how to best use social media. Although parts of it apply more to business, there are many great tips for anyone. If you purchase the eBook version, the links are all clickable, but if you don't have the eBook or read the print edition, this can be helpful.

Fake ads spread by foreign countries to create disruption in the US. Site shared by Vicki Davis at ISTE18

Many resources for library media, including the district's curriculum by grade level, mission, summer reading, state award program, and more.

Although from 2014, gives a nice framework.

Centers librarians, IDs anchor skills & provides a developmental progression, describes components of inquiry-based, student-centered pedagogy, integrates media lit into existing core subject areas.

Joquetta is an outstanding media specialist.  This is her livebinders shelf.

Good example of a media center webpage created using google sites (shared by Angy Northern)

From the Australian TL of the year