teacher-librarians

The quotes we've put together in this post are not the most famous ones, but all of them have one outstanding merit: they are highly inspiring to rediscover the pleasure of reading (if you forgot how it tastes) or simply to feel the need to reach for a book - now.

Resources collected from ISTE 2012 by Rhonda Roysden

image and duties of school library media specialist - excellent! In fact, the whole wiki is a great example with great resoruces!

AASL's Lesson Plan Database.

Information Literacy

Libraries are increasingly getting hip to using Twitter as a tool, with many offering the service as a point of contact with librarians. But Twitter is an excellent tool for librarian learning as well, offering lots of great opportunities for discussion. Many Twitter chats exist for the literary and library world, and we've discovered 20 of the absolute best for librarians to check out.

Google has pushed out a pretty cool demo, which invites you to collaborate with some of the greatest writers of all time. Kind of. A "famous writer" will start typing and then it's your turn. Once you've typed in the next line, the writer takes over. It's kind of fun.

100 tools we think will encourage interactivity and engagement, motivate and empower your students, and create differentiation in their learning process.

A library of presentations on using technology in the classroom

Science ebooks/magazine for early primary from National Gepgraphic. Great photos, text and audio with highlighted text. Great for the naturalist in the class.