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Competencies assessed for information literacy skills for grades 6-12.

If you already think social networks give you a bit more information than you want about some people, TrueScoop's new Facebook application might make you cringe. It's completely free public records search, a service that lots of websites charge for, usually so potential employers can do background checks.

some great informational videos of new technologies and how they can benefit education

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

I just found this link to library blogs on Will Richardson's page. I usually find what he writes pretty informative. Enjoy! Megan

Provides links to various information that relates to many aspects of school librarianship.

Internet safety information for students and teachers

Full text of the report available. "Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation about young people's media use. It includes data from all three waves of the study (1999, 2004, and 2009), and is among the largest and most comprehensive publicly available sources of information about media use among American youth."

Global Kids--site has information about gaming in public schools and an innovative High School for Global Citizenship in Brooklyn, partially funded by the MacArthur Foundation

Check out the following tricks to see how Bing can help students and librarians find the information they need in a snap.

Twitter been widely used micro blogging services for instant sharing with friends and followers. Since Twiter is updated instantly users can easily share information such as links, images, video and now you can share files instantly with all your friends on Twitter. FileTwt is a simple file sharing service on Twitter. Lot of us use Rapidshare for file sharing, but now FileTwt let Twitter user to share files up to 20MB maximum instantly. At present all files are hosted on Rapidshare, but FileTwt will soon start hosting the uploaded files themselves in a few days!

In the past years communication and way to communucate changes dramatically. The advent of the social and mobile web has made it easy to connect to large groups of people. Web technologies are used to connect millions of people online. This eases the sharing information simpler. Following the Social media smashers Twitter and FaceBook, It's tome now to micromessagging service from Quub, In this fast moving world stay connected over millions of people is a real tough one. To effectively deal with maintaining so many connections, frequent status updates have emerged as a popular method of staying in contact.

People today read latest topics and updates via mobile phones. Reading the tweet, Facebook updates and your favorite Digg is possible in phone, but still share the information is still challenging for for phone app makers. Recently i read about Smub.it, it offers simple social sharing and bookmarking tool that proves especially useful for iPhone and other smart phone users.

VoiceThread supports template-based digital storytelling! This blog article is great supporting information for getting teachers interested in using this technology.

Great resource for school librarians. Many issues on how to maintain school library collections and manage a school library are discussed.

This may have potential and I could be used with ESL students

A place for collaboration and information via librarians