Share YouTube clips in a safe medium. Get rid of all the fluff, distractions and sometimes-dodgy content around YouTube videos. It's great for Education, Marketing, or just making others smile. No registration or sign-up required. Works like Magic! Includes option to select a background them and to copy or anchor the URL.

What are the greatest children's books ever? In search of a collective critical assessment, BBC Culture's Jane Ciabattari polled dozens of critics around the world

John Spencer discusses the importance of providing a productive and engaging climate for keeping kids engaged in reading informational texts.

Mike Dumbleton discusses the decision he made in selecting (and omitting) content in his book Meet...Douglas Mawson. He presents strategies and suggestions to encourage critical literacy as students use the text as a springboard into further research.

Online magazine profiling the historical fiction of Australian author Belinda Murrell. Includes information about the writing and research process, resources for teaching with the books and background on each title.

From Canada: Use, Understand & Create: A Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools. Frameworks for K-3, 4-6, 7-8. Lesson plans are provided to support the learning outcomes or each year level. Lots of support information on digital and media literacy, teacher resources and research data are available under the tabs.

This presentation from the MANTLE conference 2014 by Pru Mitchell and Colleen Foley, NSW DEC highlights the possibilities and educational value of e-books and digital content for school libraries. It draws on an evidence base that includes research undertaken in NSW school libraries. It includes discussion of key issues involved in the management of e-books in schools, including areas such as Digital Rights Management (DRM), procurement, operations and lending and access.

The Maker movement is a unique combination of artistry, circuitry, and old-fashioned craftsmanship. Certainly, learning by doing or "making" has been happening since our ancestors refined the wheel.

The Maker movement is a unique combination of artistry, circuitry, and old-fashioned craftsmanship. Certainly, learning by doing or "making" has been happening since our ancestors refined the wheel.

The Center for the Future of Libraries works to identify trends relevant to libraries and librarianship. This trend library is available to help libraries and librarians understand how trends are developing and why they matter. Each trend is updated as new reports and articles are made available. New trends will be added as they are developed. Although the focus is on libraries rather than school libraries this useful resource bank

The Center for the Future of Libraries works to identify trends relevant to libraries and librarianship. This trend library is available to help libraries and librarians understand how trends are developing and why they matter. Each trend is updated as new reports and articles are made available. New trends will be added as they are developed. Although the focus is on libraries rather than school libraries this useful resource bank

A slew of recent studies shows that print books are still popular, even among millennials. What's more: further research suggests that this trend may save demonstrably successful learning habits from certain death.

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Tony Stead is an educator and literacy consultant. Tony is a lead author for Scholastic's Literacy Place for the Early Years (K-3), Moving Up with Literacy Place, 4-6, and Stepping Up with Literacy Place, 7-8.

Armidale Catholic Education Office documentation on school libraries. It include a policy statement and Information Literacy Skills Scope and Sequence

A range of web tools identified against each of the six steps in the NSW information skills process.

Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge.

Alan November challenges the quality of inquiry design and the use of technology. Test your own level of innovation. If you answer no to all Six Questions when evaluating the design of assignments and student work, than chances are that technology is not really being applied in the most innovative ways. The questions we ask to evaluate implementation and define innovation are critical.

The purpose of the Reimagining Learning Spaces project was to conduct an empirical study that would result in findings to inform the design and use of physical school facilities and examine the ways in which these constructions influence pedagogy. The study focused on newly-established school libraries in Queensland, many of which had been established with funding from the Federal Government's Building the Education Revolution economic stimulus program.

Opinion piece that compares reading print and electronically. Author Naomi Baron of Words OnScreen and professor of linguistics and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning at American University. But evidence not presented in this short article.

The school library media center offers a wide variety of resources and opportunities. However, the enthusiastic leadership of a teacher librarian is essential to bring the potential of information and learning resources alive for both teachers and students. Designed primarily as a tool for a university course at Indiana University at Indianapolis, this website is available to anyone who wants to learn more about the role of the school library media specialist in today's schools.

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the Internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This article defines transliteracy as "the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks" and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography.