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What you call your space doesn't matter as much as whether or not your space is flexible, relevant and supports the needs of your students.

"Looking for some new ideas about using Web 2.0 to implement AASL's Standards for the 21st Century Learner? Check out these resources developed by students in FRIT 7090b offered during Summer, 2010 at Georgia Southern University. "

awesome for visual learners

"This 275-page free downloadable resource contains dozens of lesson plans that implement AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in the context of the curriculum. Contributing authors include more than 30 teacher-librarians. "

Many of you will be pleased to know that the nominations are now open for the 2010 Edublogs awards.

"The Edublog Awards is a community based incentive started in 2004 that aims to: Promote and demonstrate the educational values of social media. Create a fabulous resource for educators to use for ideas on how social media is used in different contexts, with a range of different learners. Introduce us to new sites that we might not have found if not for the awards process."

that's what libraries and school libraries have done for eons-empower learners to become independent and productive citizens Carolyn Foote

"At the recent Excellence in Learning Resources forum meeting in York we had a good discussion about the various eCollections libraries across the Yorkshire & Humber region currently provide for their learners. With so many libraries facing serious cutbacks, providing good quality eResources that don't put too much of a dent in the library budget is as important as ever."

Rationale for connecting learners with 21st century tools and projects

"In the past few years many of us have re-imagined school library for learners using the array of new tools and abilities in front of us today. And in my humble opinion some aspects of emerging practice are nonnegotiable."

Online resources are seen as a revolutionary approach towards education due to their convenience and accessibility. However, finding the right set of tools will be crucial for your success as an online learner. You shouldn't forget that the open access to Internet has enabled an immense amount of misinformation to be presented as facts. With the great number of educational online resources, it can be difficult to choose the ones that correspond to your learning style.

Must-try apps, games, and tutorials for learners of every age

worth spending some time working down this list of Google Docs related resources gathered by Susan Oxnevad.

"School librarians bring pedagogical order and harmony to a multi-media clutter of information by crafting challenging learning opportunities, in collaboration with classroom teachers and other learning specialists, to help learners use the virtual world, as well as the traditional information sources, to prepare for living, working and life-long learning in the 21st Century"

This publication and its wider project draw upon several years of ESCalate activity focusing upon the development of learning and teaching in relation to the use of technology. Practitioner-focused workshops, held over the past 3 years, have proved successful in the dissemination of innovative use of emergent technologies and pedagogies in education subjects. Increasingly the presenters and audiences for these events were drawn from wider subject and curriculum areas. This particular project builds upon 2 years of workshops and seeks to collect and disseminate innovative activity in Education subject areas. 

10:41 PM Susan Oxnevad 15 comments Technology is a tool that can be used to help teachers facilitate learning experiences that address the diverse learning needs of all students and help them develop 21st Century Skills. At it's most basic level, digital tools can be used to help students find, understand and use information.

If one of your New Year's Resolutions was the classic "read more books" and you haven't so much as opened a magazine, we're here to provide some inspiration. TED-Ed asked a few of our favorite educators to weigh in on the best books in their subject - for students, teachers and lifelong learners alike - to crack into during 2015. Here, find a list of their top 5 picks in literature, science, math and history.