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Ideas about how to implement digital citizenship start with the why - "Since our students are using technology to play, learn, and communicate while at home and at school, they should be learning how to use that technology responsibly. Full integration of digital citizenship (or DigCit) curriculum into every class and every content area-at every grade level-should be the goal to meet this need."

A good article about developing literacy skills. "All Australian children and young people becoming literate I believe it is vital we understand and define the complexity of literacy. Literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills students need to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, express thoughts and emotions, present ideas and opinions, interact with others and participate in activities at school and in their lives beyond school. "

A how-to about creating digital blackout poems. "These can help struggling readers focus on the MOST important words in the poem to find the main idea/theme of the poem in a fun and artful way:" There is an example of how to use You Doodle as well as a non-technology option.

A reflection about one school library faculty's goal of creating a positive learning environment with space that would help students and teachers develop real-world connections and the approach they took to creating it. The ideas for the space included housing the collection, helping students and teachers collaborate, being a hub for learning with a flexible floor plan and supporting newly developing areas in educational technology. The school decided to create a learning commons to move beyond traditional thinking about libraries and respond to what the kids and teachers really needed. The faculty envisioned their environment to be developmentally appropriate for their young students, as well as to foster a sense of creativity, inspiration, and encourage dialogue and a sense of community. The new learning commons library offered more space for stacks, added conference rooms and a lounge area, but the learning commons concept informed more than the library. These design changes increase opportunities to be inspired by student work and performances and create stronger interpersonal connections among students and faculty.

"This paper reports on a study into principals' perceptions of the role of the teacher-librarian. Nine principals in Australia were interviewed about the role of the teacher-librarian and library in their school. The findings indicated a range of ways in which the teacher-librarian adds value to the school, including in their role as teacher, providing the principal with a broad perspective on the workings of the school, providing advice and ideas, and providing leadership in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) at the school. It also identified a number of personal qualities valued by principals."

Author looks at the universal ideas/themes that lie behind different types of successful makerspaces.

The tweets from the day at the Symposium held at the Bendigo Public Library. Sharing ideas, experience and expertise

10 of the best ideas for using technology to promote reading

From Overdrive blog - some ideas for introducing library clientele to your digital collection

Esoecially for proimary schools. A lot of simple ideas that could be used in library situations - with students or adapted for displays

Great page by Kathy Schrock explaining sketchnoting with links and videos. "Sketchnoting, in its purest form, is creating a personal visual story as one is listening to a speaker or reading a text. I also believe the interactive notebook, which includes the process of taking "regular" notes" while listening to a speaker and later creating a sketchnote of the text notes, would also be considered sketchnoting. This page will provide links, ideas, tips,and research evidence dealing with the power of sketchnoting. If you are looking for a book on the topic, the seminal work is this book by Mike Rohde.     "

Laura Fleming has written a great post about her experience with makerspaces in school libraries. She embraced the idea of accidental discovery with curious students being given some interesting gadgets and let students come up with their own applications.

"Published on 28 Apr 2015. In this YouTube video John Green discusses the Paper Towns movie adaptation, the idea of faithful adaptations, and the lost art of the movie novelization"

A lot of good ideas for writing.

"The idea behind the shift? A kind of empathy-moving beyond see one's self, and moving towards seeing one's self in the physical and digital company of others. As digital technology and social media become more deeply embedded in our lives, and more nuanced in their function, this is a shift whose time has come."

Ideas from public librarians (USA) who shared information about summer reading programs that work for them and what tcan be done to keep young people reading during holidays.

""There are no answers given in this article but questions are posed and ideas are discussed. No-one knows what the future holds for librarieas but many library staff memebrs are listening to what people need and will adapt.

Pinterest board with examples of Book faces and related photographs

Some great ideas and examples can be found here. Also includes a easy to follow guide about how to create a blackout poem.