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" "We are excited to be able to provide this resource to schools across New York State, and believe it is the most accurate tool available for evaluating school librarians," stated NYLA Executive Director Jeremy Johannesen. The "School Librarian Evaluation Rubric" can be found online on the SED website at: http://usny.nysed.gov/rttt/teachers-leaders/practicerubrics/Docs/nyla-rubric.pdf The new evaluation instrument is aligned with Charlotte Danielson's Enhancing Professional Practice, the NYS School Library Program Evaluation Rubric tool, and goals of the Common Core Standards to increase rigor, relevance, and college and career readiness."

Carolyn Knight, Teacher in the Library and colleagues at Amesbury School, a new Year 1-6 school in Churton Park, Wellington talk about how their school library supports literacy and student inquiry.

This rubric aligns Charlotte Danielson's Enhancing Professional Practice Library Program Evaluation Rubric Tool, the goals of the Common Core Standards and NYS Teaching Standards

All about online search How to read a webpage Evaluate a webpage - practice Google search tips Judging online information

"A primary school teacher sharing resources, practical ideas and thoughts on blogging, global collaboration and technology integration."

"New digital forms of information offer rich and extraordinary opportunities for libraries to expand community access to information and to revolutionize in positive ways the relationship between libraries and users. At the same time, these new forms of digital content pose new challenges. As libraries struggle to meet the challenges of providing digital content in an environment characterized by significant uncertainty and changing on a daily basis, there is a need for an Association-wide group of experts, broadly representative of the many constituencies within the library community, that can proactively address these digital content opportunities and issues at the highest level and from both a policy and practical perspective."

"A collaborative space to help teachers understand how to better their practice by using Guided Inquiry and Web 2.0 tools to implement the National Curriculum for History"

"iPad Academy will help you master the Apple iPad. Get valuable iPad tips and tutorials. Find easy-to-follow instructions for making the most of the iPad, apps and accessories. Learn how to turn your iPad into a practical and purposeful tool. iPad Academy, helping you get schooled and skilled on the iPad."

"AITSL is initiating a project focused on student engagement in learning. Learning Frontiers will support practitioners to develop professional practices which optimise the true engagement of learners. This we believe is a prerequisite to realise the goals of the Australian Curriculum in our new context of complex challenges and amazing opportunities."

Exploring the concept and practice of digital citizenship

Provides principals and school communities with a best practice guide for their school library.

So many ways to bounce information off each other.

"School librarians bring pedagogical order and harmony to a multi-media clutter of information by crafting challenging learning opportunities, in collaboration with classroom teachers and other learning specialists, to help learners use the virtual world, as well as the traditional information sources, to prepare for living, working and life-long learning in the 21st Century"