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Camilla Elliott

How the Mind Works: 10 Fascinating TED Talks - PsyBlog - 0 views

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    How the Mind Works: 10 Fascinating TED Talks - http://t.co/V6BaMiXpSJ via @psyblog
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    How the Mind Works: 10 Fascinating TED Talks - http://t.co/V6BaMiXpSJ via @psyblog
Camilla Elliott

This Digital Life: Three in Thirteen; Best keynotes from library conferences I attended... - 0 views

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    OCLC's Angus Cook's blog post on great library conference keynotes in 2013
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    OCLC's Angus Cook's blog post on great library conference keynotes in 2013 http://t.co/L4Yy836O9E - OCLC ANZ (OCLC_ANZ) http://twitter.com/OCLC_ANZ/status/425388162743934976
Camilla Elliott

Sharing Research in our Field - School Libraries - 1 views

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    Recommended reading list from American Assoc of School Libraries.
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Camilla Elliott

Coming soon to a school near you - 0 views

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    Like their municipal counterparts, school libraries are seeking their place in an era of overabundance of resources and Cloud-based information networks accessible from any mobile device. Getting together to examine their role in 21st century education, library media specialists from more than 50 school districts from Putnam/Northern Westchester and Southern Westchester BOCES met earlier this month at a conference themed, School Libraries: Innovative and Engaged Learning.
Camilla Elliott

Library War Service slides collection now online and browsable | American Library Assoc... - 0 views

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    While the battles, uniforms, and weapons that made up a World War I serviceman's life are very well documented in the history books, the day-to-day monotony of a soldier's life doesn't often get as much attention. The ALA Archives has recently migrated our collection of digitized lantern slides from World War I into the CONTENTdm system, which shows one way these men filled their downtime: reading.
Camilla Elliott

Developing digital literacies - Jisc infoNet - 0 views

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    Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. What it means to be digitally literate changes over time and across contexts, so digital literacies are essentially a set of academic and professional situated practices supported by diverse and changing technologies. 
Camilla Elliott

Sense and Sensibility: Why Librarians Remain Essential to Our Schools @HuffPostBlog htt... - 2 views

  • In the final analysis as the work done by speech pathologists and librarians illustrate, public school instruction extends beyond what happens in the classroom to other areas where highly specialized and dedicated professionals assist student achievement on a variety of levels. They also reinforce the notion of education as a humanistic rather than a commercial enterprise that requires a respect for the individuals who serve. As the late Jesuit educator Timothy Healy, former President of Georgetown University and the New York Public Library once observed, "The most important asset of any library goes home at night -- the library staff."
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