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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.

Great article with lots of statistics about libraries and library media specialists.

Check here for new and upcoming webcasts. Previous ones are archived. Great for school library media specialists. 

Great set of archived webinars for Library Media Specialists. Focus is on public libraries, but there are several webcasts that pertain to school libraries.

Great resource about copyright, including multi-media.

Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.

Launched by Common Sense Media, the nonprofit known by parents, teachers and librarians for its high quality, nonpartisan reviews and its popular Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum, Graphite is the go-to platform for helping teachers make sense of an exponentially evolving number of digital learning tools. The site is not only free, it's also ad-free. The goal is to objectively and transparently review and rate educational technologies and to guide busy teachers to the best websites, games, apps and digital curricula that will augment their teaching and to relieve the time-consuming burden of searching, sorting and sifting.

Here is a researched site that has the most current information on copyright in a digital age.

teacher resources for classroom video

Educational Technology site

Offers a Scope and Sequence for tech lessons in internet safety, information literacy, cyberbullying, etc.