teacher-librarians

Research foundation paper that shows how school libraries help students learn -- and improve test scores.

A guide to learning some 2.0 tools for school librarians.

Another place to share books socially online, similar to Library Thing. Seems to be popular right now.

Enter what you're reading or your whole library-it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.

The creator of this blog gathers the best of library related videos that can then be subdcribed to in an RSS feed.

An eye-opening presentation by Stephen Abrams on the impact of Web 2.0 on libraries and how libraries need to change to serve the new generation of users. A great listen for both librarians and educators.

Joyce Valenza's wiki on Information Literacy and Web 2.0. Amazing resources for librarians and all educators. Presented at NECC.

Good review of free wiki services, with pros and cons for each. via Will Richardson

Ways to embed media on a webpage, written just for library media teachers. via technolibrary via twitter

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.

a discussion to "develop a shared understanding of how copyright and fair use applies to the creative media work that our students create and our own use of copyrighted materials as educators, practitioners, advocates and curriculum developers."

This seems like an obvious share. An important discussion because it also opens more collaboration with colleagues. I have found that some colleagues want to avoid the gatekeeper because of the conservative nature of understanding copyright and fair use. This has been even more difficult while being in an international school.