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"One educator's advice after installing makerspaces in several dozen schools. He has developed a process that helps you think through your makerspace and how it fits into the culture and curriculum of your school. Skipping this process, or one like it, will almost certainly result in tension, missed teaching opportunities, and overspending."

"By focusing on Global Digital Citizenship every day for 15 minutes, you can instil in your students a strong basis for Internet-savvy skills for the 21st Century. This is the first in a series of templates for lesson plans on the 21st Century Fluencies. You take this lesson in parts; one part each day. You can spread this out over a couple weeks time or however you wish. The premise for our 15 minutes comes in the form of flipped videos or material that students will examine at home, or at the very least to be highlighted and watched in class for 15 minutes or less. So it all begins with your PBL plan. We here at the Global Digital Citizen Foundation believe that PBL is one of the best ways to get students engaged in their own learning. PBL is the name-Solution Fluency is the game."

"Enhancing online safety site is managed by the Office of the Children's eSafety Commissioner. This department seeks to protect Australian children when they experience cyberbullying by administering a complaints scheme and deals with complaints about prohibited online content."

Beautiful examples of blackout poetry

Visually beautiful blackout poetry

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

A tool that allows you to inexpensive inspirational quotation posters.

This site has good advice about how to go about evaluating web resources. It is updated by a librarian, Nicole J. Auer, at Virginia Tech on a regular basis.

This page offers aan annotated list of web sitesthat you can use to help with citing Internet resources

Article written by James W. P. Campbell. He has travelled the world together with Will Pryce the architectural photographer, visiting and photographing 85 of the world's greatest libraries in 21 countries. He now has written a book The Library: A World History (Chicago University Press), which he claims is the most complete account of library buildings to date.

Goals that are alpplicable to all school libraries at any time of the year.

"Teaching about identity theft in the classroom will help strengthen students' positive digital citizenship. These surprising facts and stats will help to open kids eyes and make them more aware of the need to keep information safe on the web."