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As recently as 2007, there was note of an alarming trend of young people not reading

There is a lot to do before your kid's school year gets started. Hopefully, having a talk about cyberbullying will be on your to-do list. According to a recent study by internet security company McAfee, kids are witnessing and sometimes engaging in cyber bullying.

Excellent search tools.  Great for visual learners.  Compfight even does Creative Commons.

You can view the schedule from last year here, we will be posting the schedule for this year as we get closer to the event.

Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the law is designed to help educators and librarians.

Chronicle of higher education study about research after college.

These YA coming-of-age novels will make you cry, laugh, and appreciate life. Okay? Okay.

With the new year underway and the 2014 Public Library Association conference in Indianapolis approaching, we asked some experts working in children's and teen services what trends they are seeing. What are the big issues children and teen librarians will be discussing at PLA?

"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.

Three charts that show you how women have been regressing in the study of computer science since the mid-1980s. In 2013, only two out of 10 computer science bachelor's degrees were conferred to women.

See Supplemental Index PDF for a list of titles organized by topic. Distinguishes picture books from chapter books and gives age ranges.

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."

Unusually informative article on the state of digital texts in 2010. Short and concise. Good info for librarian tech leaders.

©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS

Good overview of wikis in education

Overall an informative page with some good guidelines. I especially appreciate the comments about keeping the maintainance work load low. Creating a blog is a good idea, but it has not been practiclal here in China since free services like blogger and edublogs are blocked. Adding wordpress to the ISP is the best solution. I tried this at one point and the server lost the wordpress download. Time and frustration has not allowed me to try it again, but I know it will work. I'm surprised there is not a suggestion for wiki links. J. Valenza has shown that this is an easy and possibly effective collaborative process.

Say good-bye to your mother's school library