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Great wiki with resources

The CARS Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support) is designed for ease of learning and use

Tips on different ways to show YouTube videos in a safe mode from Douglas Adams. Shared by Joyce Valenza on Twitter.

This is awesome Cathy! Thanks for sharing - the whole mashup idea as a way to make library materials more accessible is definitely worth pursuing! I would love to see more of the "Flip Explorer" interface but I can't get the links to work... Thanks for any guidance around this... Rene

When is it cheating? When is it collaboration? This thoughtful article from Common Sense Media provides fine advice for parents (or teachers) on how to talk to kids about digital media and ethics.  

Apple just released a 38 page guide to help school personnel deploy and support iOS devices including iPads. The guide addresses Preparing for Deployment, Wi-Fi Network Design, Configuration and Management, Purchasing Content and Deployment Strategies. You can find the PDF document here.

It's time for school librarians to step out and enlighten their communities about all the ways their libraries impact students' education.

"It's time for school librarians to step out and enlighten their communities about all the ways their libraries impact students' education."

"On this site, you will find message templates (sample e-mails, letters, newsletter blurbs, brochures, and even videos) containing these taglines and targeting specific stakeholder audiences in order to promote school librarians as 21st century skills experts. We hope that these sample templates will be used by school librarians and school library advocates to inform their communities about the vital and irreplaceable role that school librarians play in teaching and learning. Maybe you'll get inspired to create something for us that we can use, too. In the meantime, we hope you find this site helpful."

"As a way to instill better research skills, a university librarian discusses innovative ways to move students--and faculty--beyond their reliance on Google."

Great article, quite inspirational...

As a veteran English teacher in the Euclid City Schools, and someone who sees great value in integrating technology, I wanted to contribute to the ongoing dialog regarding tablet/mobile computing, specifically the iPad, and its impact on student literacy and students' self perception of their own literacy

At the JISC RSC North West 'Want your learners to be more independent?' event I felt I had my eyes well and truly opened to the benefits of, and dare I say it, the necessity of embedding information literacy skills into learning provision - whatever form that provision that may take.