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As School Library Media Specialists, it is expected that we connect our students and staff with the information and resources that they need for everyday learning. In today's digital world of social media and Web 2.0 tools, it is vital that we are not only sharing these new tools with our school community, but modeling their use for communication, collaboration and professional development. The articles and websites below reinforce the importance of Library Media Specialists being experts on the use of Web 2.0 tools.

21st Century Classroom: Transforming the Textbook In 21st century classrooms, blackboard chalk is on the endangered list, the pop quiz has been replaced with clicker questions, and bowling alley technology (overhead projector transparencies) has disappeared, thanks to digital projectors and document cameras.

The Media History Digital Library. Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound. We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 800,000 pages, and that number is growing. Our Collections feature Extensive Runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.

7 points of information literacy: * IL as context specific and context sensitive; * IL demanding a variety of behaviours: not just searching, but also encountering, browsing, monitoring, managing and creating; * People moving along complex paths to meet their information needs: moving between the virtual and physical worlds, and using different sources and spaces; * IL in digital environments; * IL with people sources; * People being information literate individually and collaboratively * People being aware they are information literate: you cannot be an information literate 21st Century citizen without being conscious of the need to develop these IL skills and attitudes, and continue to update your IL through your life! Excellent article.

Year 7 at St Joseph's Mundingburra created digital mosaics as an affective response to a group reading and discussion of Colin Thompson's "Dust," an Honour Book in the Picture Book category in this year's CBCA Book of the Year awards. The mosaics attempted to express the book's themes of starvation, isolation, loneliness, global responsibility, immediacy, caring, love and hope. The mosaics have been created through mashing bighugelabs with flickr images

Video site dedicated to short instructional tutorials for the technology classroom.  

Film of Demos researcher discussing digital literacy with students, BBC News - young people 'over-reliant on internet' 

Sin ningún género de dudas se puede afirmar que las bibliotecas están siendo uno de los motores fundamentales de impulso del libro electrónico en aquellos países que antes han iniciado la carrera digital del libro electrónico, y han sido muchas las bibliotecas que han respondido positiva y rápidamente a este cambio de expectativas. Uno de los factores clave es la evidencia de un crecimiento exponencial en los hábitos y actitudes de lectura en dispositivos electrónicos móviles, convirtiéndose de este modo las pantallas en interfaces privilegiadas de lectura y aprendizaje [Shen 2011]; junto a nuevos entornos de aprendizaje apoyados en la tecnología, a través de sistemas de e-learning en los que las nuevas tecnologías convierten a la biblioteca en uno de los ejes de consulta de los usuarios, en los que cobra cada vez más importancia la disponibilidad, flexibilidad y movilidad de la información a través de conexiones, redes e intercambios como elementos esenciales del sistema de aprendizaje.