SLAVConnects

From the #TLChat Virtual Cafe webinar series: Shelly Terrell & Jake Duncan. Diverse conversation about education and schools from experienced and inspirational educators. You can view, listen/watch the webinar via the link to the recorded Blackboard session.

Post about audiobooks. The author listens whilst they are walking, driving, working, gardening - basically, whenever allows. A few favourites listed with some videos from youtube accompany the descriptions.

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

This article challenges the status quo which reveals that most schools are studying very few books by female authors and that there is an under representation by the media of reviewing books written by female authors. Aviva Tuffield argues that this gives women and men a distorted view of our society and contributes to unconscious bias again genuine equality.

"Infographic "Trends in Information literary: a comparative view." Easybib collected data from more than 1,200 librarians and over 10,000 students. This infographic explains how librarians are teaching information literacy and what trends have shifted between 2012-2014."

A fun look at hardcopy books from IKEA

Article from The Guardia (UK)

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

Slideshow with a lot of tools that could be useful in school libraries.

Teacher Librarian Roles and Responsibilities. Infographic

"10 activities to use with any nonfiction book or other informational text. The goal was to get kids more engaged in reading. They are simple but effective and could be adapted in a variety Of ways.

The SAMR model was developed by as a framework to integrate technology into the curriculum. I believe it can also serve as a model to establish and assess if and how technology is being used to reinforce an old, often archaic Education 1.0 or being used to promote and facilitate what many are calling 21st century skills, i.e., creativity, innovation, problem-solving, critical thinking; those skills characteristic of Education 3.0. Many look at SAMR as the stages of technology integration. I propose that it should be a model for educators to focus on Modification and Redefinition areas of technology integration.

This is a fabulous site for Visual Arts students. It is a growing database of 230,000 images of art, architecture, and design by 25,000 artists spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the largest online database of contemporary art.

15 of the books suggested as good reads for men. They include both new and classic novels.

An interesting list of novel and short stories