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This ALA site offers some great advice and links to further information about book clubs and reading groups. "Many libraries provide meeting space for book clubs or administer one or more book discussion group.  This page provides general information about book groups, starting with "one book" programs, some resources for guiding book groups, references for specific types of book groups, and an anonymously contributed guide to establishing and running a book discussion group. "

A good post for anyone wanting to start a YA book club in their school. There are lots of ideas and links to other great sites that offer tips and strategies, starting from the very basic: how you might recruit members, how to structure a meeting, choosing books, and holding discussions.

In today's educational world the skills of resource discovery and curation are important. This post focuses on providing guidance in finding high quality, supplementary resources for learning and ideas for organizing these resources for future use.

"A few good ideas ideas to assist you in getting the most out of the 2015 conferences that are conducted and fully exploring everything that they have to offer.

"A good infographic encompassing some important netiquette rules for students to keep in mind whilst they are using the net. These rules would be easy to run through with students, making sure they understand them, before going on to do their research "

"Working on developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.  It doesn't always meet the needs. There alternatives One idea was 'SNOT Analysis' strengths, needs, opportunities, threats. Then there is NOISE - Needs,Opportunities, Improvements, Strengths, Exceptions

Create a spreadsheet in Google Docs which converts to timeline when you save to the web via Timeline JS

This looks like a useful tool

"The culture of any library should not only encourage meaningful student learning, but also provide the tools, resources, and opportunities for students to thrive and flourish. The impact of these types of transformations on libraries can support all learners and encourage them to contribute to building a more dynamic and creative community."

Well-reasoned piece giving a good explanation as to why YA books have a general appeal beyond the intended target.

An interesting discussion about the print phenomenon. Different sources from textbook publishers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all say that young people still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning. This is a bias that surprises reading experts when the same group spend so much of the rest of their time on-line. "A University of Washington pilot study of digital textbooks found that a quarter of students still bought print versions of e-textbooks that they were given for free."

Ideas for a lesson, complete with handout, about teaching students about critically assessing the credibility of sources they find. It is aimed at secondary school students.

Joyce Valenza discusses Fair use and copyright and how a good understanding of the Fair Use guidelines allows everyone to use the best most appropriate material without sanctions. She also goes into some detail about transformative use and what that entails.

Interesting post that puts forward the idea of using film to make literary criticism stronger.

A collection of good free HD video clips to use in classes.

"By blocking social networking tools in our schools, to whom are we really denying access? All kids or only those who cannot afford home Internet access? Are we marginalizing the already marginalized in our society by preventing them from the only opportunity (in school) they may have to participate in a participatory culture by filtering? "

One teacher librarians account about how she supported a classroom assignment (on stem cells) using Livebinders.

An infographic from OverDrive that gives a visual representation of the amount of titles borrowed and what some of the most popular titles were that people checked out.