Infolink Librarians

A wondeful site filled with lots of reference resources calculators and more!!! Going onto my favourite list!

Looks vibey and could be cool for local teens to read. Have a nice page turning look

Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).

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ibiblio's goals include expanding and improving the creation and distribution of open-source software; continuing UNC programs to develop an online library and archive; hosting projects that expand the concepts of transparency and openness; and serving as a model for other open-source projects.

A Supplement to the book: The New Learning

This wiki is the Supplement to the book: The New Learning Very interesting.

Moodle is an Open Source VLE or 'Virtual Learning Environment'. It enables teachers to take the best aspects of their classroom practice and use the Moodle system as a VLE to transfer that into a home teaching and learning environment. Moodle not only comes with an impressive array of features but is also highly configurable and extensible.

A teenagers view of what the library mean to her....a must read

"Why are we reading a book about a crazy knight? What does Don Quixote have to do with social studies?" Great literature helps students to think better by challenging their assumptions, by making fun of certain situations, and by providing insights. All classes benefit from reading whole pieces of literature, abridged versions or even just specific chapters from outstanding literature.

Any number of recent studies are concluding that reading is declining, primarily the reading of novels and longer works of nonfiction. Pundits are remarking that online reading is changing their personal reading behaviors. Doug Johnson infers from this and other observations that we are rapidly becoming a "postliterate society." In Doug's feature, you can find out just what he means by that, and learn how libraries can serve this postliterate society.

Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes. Information Literacy shares a fundamental set of core thinking- and problem-solving meta-skills with other disciplines. Authentic cross-disciplinary problems which include observation and inference, analysis of symbols and models, comparison of perspectives, and assessment of the rhetorical context, engage students in developing mastery information literacy over time.

As part of a language arts or reading program, students read novels throughout the school year. Some of the novels are assigned, read, and discussed "all class." Others are chosen by the students individually, and they keep individual reading lists. Students may be required to read a certain number per marking period, per school year, and over the summer. Some may be classics; other trade novels, but all contribute to the overall reading and comprehension abilities of the students. This unit can be done as a culminating activity for the school year. Students are asked to choose their two favorite novels from the ones they have read. They write reviews and post them online for students in their own school, in other schools, across the United States, and in other countries to read. The student reviews not only help student readers clarify their own understanding of literature, they also provide a "student-to-student" resource. Other students can choose novels based on opinions of their peers. The students review the novels, write descriptions that will appeal to other readers, and indicate the level of reading difficulty. They do this to help others choose novels suitable for their reading levels.

Great overview site for web 2.0

A GREAT librarian reosurce of ebooks dictionaries and everything a good librarian can put together. Basically this librarian has created a virtual library!!!

As you read through various definitions for dictionary most of the definitions include the word book as part of the definition. Yet, there is not question that online dictionaries abound. My preferred definition of dictionary as it relates to this post is…"a book [resource] giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts, usually arranged alphabetically: a biographical dictionary; a dictionary of mathematics."