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The collection is organized into sections for elementary school, middle school, and high school. There is a separate tab for parent resources. One of the things about the collection is that understanding copyright has been included as part of digital citizenship.

Today's reality is that readers and information seekers are having increasingly less need to visit a physical library to meet their basic information needs. Digital information sources, readily accessed from classroom, home or mobile computing devices, are the choice of many learners and teachers. The "Net Generation" student increasingly prefers the visual and the virtual rather than the printed text. Why, many educators are asking, does a school need a physical library when seemingly all resources can be obtained using an inexpensive netbook and a wireless network connection? How can these large physical spaces in our schools be re-purposed for greater educational impact? Doug Johnosn

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

Great blog post with an interesting debate. Should teachers download videos to show in their classrooms when YouTube is blocked at their schools even though they are violating copyright?

Good technology resources for middle school students.

Great wiki about all things School Library

This site contains examples webpages of effective practice for elementary, middle, and  high schools. 

Middle school librarian's blog

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

With important groups such as ISTE, AASL and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills all calling upon schools to stress originality, imagination and creative production, the meaning of those terms along with related concepts such as synthesis, innovation

TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS.

library website examples.

Lesson plans here for middle school about digital citizenship.

Presented at 12/10/13 LMS academy

YouTube's video and short quiz designed to help young people better understand use of intellectual property relating to re-posting and remixing. In the video, young pirate Russell copies a music video on his cell phone and posts in on YouTube. He is warned that he could loose his booty and get banned for life! The film goes on to discuss remixing, fair use, and the possibility of YouTube takedowns, with a small print approach to the legal-eze. It encourages the creation of original work. The tone is intentionally comic melodramatic, in 1950s instructional cartoon style.

Excellent article with practical applications we can use right now by the presenters of the CC webinar we spoke of in class