Connecting Middle Schoolers with Libraries

Here's a possible tool for helping to facilitate and extend book discussions. I just watched the introductory video, but it is a neat idea.

An interview with Joyce Valenza about 21st Century Research Skills. She starts with the assumption that we need to ban the "report" in schools which put me in mind of our July conversation.

Standards for the 21st Century Learner in Action

Pdf files for the 21st Century Learning Standards

A blog post from Joyce Valenza about helping students and classes set up 2.0 environments for getting content.

The wiki for the presentation about School Library 2.5 from NECC.

This assessment tool is free and is designed to measure impace of technology integration or if technology is being integrated. I'm wondering about its usefulness as an assessment tool for informationliteracy related tasks.

This is a project I was going to try to undertake this year. This site contains short video book trailers for K-12. I just saw the one for Chasing the Falconers by Gordon Korman. It made me want to pick up the book. My idea is to have a station in the library where students can watch such videos (and we can start to make our own too!) and maybe even incorporate them into the catalog.