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Recently debuted Building Level Toolkit for Implementing AASL's L4L that Kristin Fontichiaro and Melissa Johnston developed.

"A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators"

"Dropbox, the app we all (at least many of us) know and love, has a plethora of advanced uses to make life so much easier in managing data between multiple computers and online. We've posted several roundups of tips and tricks for Dropbox and now we present our ultimate toolkit and guide."

This toolkit was developed to provide resources and tools for librarians who are engaged in online learning efforts at their institution, whether in full course management systems or as stand-alone tools to incorporate into web pages or instruction sessions.

"Formative Assessment Toolkit Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each tool. You'll need several to meet every classroom situation. These are my fab five tools for formative assessment."

Convey ideas clearly and fully, and use logic, creativity and imagination in a powerful way with well-chosen words.

Information on recognizing reliable news and validating stories.

Karen Bonanno provides a series of advocacy activities that can help school library staff influence policy, advising that to bring about change requires consistent and persistent effort to shift perceptions. She advocates maintaining regular positive activity which can be supported by strategies such as identifying a memorable message, capturing killer statistics, gathering startling facts and statements and leveraging the network.

United Kingdom - Logos and branding- download our logos and brand guidelines Projects - literacy programmes to provide inspiration and support for your work Wikireadia - a shared resource for professionals supporting reading, writing, speaking and listening. Reading ideas - practical ideas for different audiences including children and adults Reading garden - a toolkit to help you create outdoor reading spaces Teachers TV Reading Week - Information about programmes broadcast on the digital channel for everyone who works in schools

In addition to discussing the results of the survey, a description of a "Toolkit for Online Learning" created by the Online Learning Research Committee is provided.

Online Digital Literacy program developed for staff in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University.

It's time for school librarians to speak out about how they help students meet learning standards. This advocacy kit provides templates and talking points for meetings with students, teachers, administrators, school boards and parents.

"Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT is an evolution of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki and makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."

Thank you for sharing this, Cathy! This is a wonderful tool. So often I have teachers asking: "What can I use to do this?"....... I will send on the link to all staff.

A hot linked list of resources from AASL for pre-service, new, or returning school librarians to use in developing implementation strategies for the AASL standards developed by the ALA Emerging Leaders Team A  which is at the bottom of the L4L Resources for Implementation page.