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How do YOU BookJam? Create a Digital Book Report connecting core standards to 21st-century skills for your chance to win a portion of $20,000 in prizes and show us how. View current entries. Don't Wait Register or Enter Today! Call for Entries: September 2 - October 28, 2010 Public Voting: November 15 - November 29, 2010

" See the 2010 nominations (PDF), as chosen by the fifteen book groups from YA Galley! Promote the titles at your library with the 2010 Teens' Top Ten toolkit (Word doc), including program ideas, customizable reproducibles, and more. YALSA is accepting applications from teen book groups for 2010-2012. Apply to be part of YA Galley. Voting for the Teens' Top Ten will take place in August and September at this website, with the winner announced during Teen Read Week 2010."

"Here's an article by BIE that appeared in the September 2010 issue of Educational Leadership magazine from ASCD. Good for general audiences as well as educators, it explains the essential elements that make rigorous PBL different from "doing projects.""

"Uploaded by takepart on May 13, 2010 Want to find out how a bill REALLY becomes a law? It's not as simple as it used to be back in the Schoolhouse Rocks days. Our Congressmen have to choose between our interests and the money of major corporations...No wonder why he's still stuck on the steps to the Capitol building."

links shared by iste10 attendees

"Though it may not get the attention that, say, the pyramids of Egypt or the Empire State Building get, the Hoover Dam is one of the unheralded wonders of the modern world, a massive edifice of over 3.25 million cubic yards of concrete and 582 miles of cooling pipes that provides the West with 4.2 billion kilowatts of energy a year. The monetary cost was nearly 50 million in Depression-era dollars for a project of unprecedented size in the U.S., but the human cost was more dear -- at least 112 people died building the dam. July 7, 2010 marked the 79th anniversary of the start of the project, a huge chapter in the taming of the American West"

from Free Tech 4 Teachers: "C-Span Classroom has created some new resources and updated some old resources for teachers for the 2010/2011 school year. C-Span's video library includes a section called Constitution Clips. Constitution Clips is comprised of videos of members of Congress and Presidents giving speeches that relate to sections of the US Constitution. For each section of the Constitution there is a selection of videos ready for you to use in your classroom. The videos can be embedded into your class blog or website."

"A Planning Guide for Empowering Learnersis a program evaluation, planning, implementation and advocacy tool that will ensure school library program planners go beyond the basics to provide goals, priorities, criteria, and general principles for establishing effective library programs. The guide includes a revised School Library Program Assessment Rubric, a tool that allows school librarians to assess their program on 16 different sets of criteria. You can immediately start using this valuable resource to plan for your 2010-2011 school year!"

"BookFest Celebrate. Discover. Discuss. Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:30 am - 3:00 pm"

"Tech Forum New York: Insight and Innovation for Technology Leaders Friday October 22, 2010 Westchester Marriott 670 White Plains Rd. Tarrytown, NY 10591"

photos & videos of the two discussion panels and keynote address. Bank Street Book Fest 2010

new list for 2010!

Are you a teacher looking for exciting experiments for your classroom? Or a kid who wants to see what you can build from everyday items? These experiments from Science Education Advisor Dan Menelly (winner of the 2010 NSF Einstein Fellowship in Cyberinfrastructure) are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages. All the experiments use only low cost materials and have very little setup time.

FREE WENBINAR: Librarians as Leaders of 21st Century Learning: Lessons Learned SPONSORED BY: Capstone Publishers, Gale Cengage Learning, Follett Library Resources, Follett Software Company, Rosen Publishing, Library Video Company/SAFARI Montage, Scholastic Library Publishers and School Library Journal EVENT DATE: Thursday April 15, 2010 - 3:00-4:00 PM EDT Time - 60 minutes

" School librarians have been identified as the "go-to" people for digital content in a recently published report by the national education non-profit group, Project Tomorrow. The report, "The New 3 E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged and Empowered - How Today's Educators are Advancing a New Vision for Teaching and Learning (PDF)," shares the teacher, librarian and administrator findings from the group's Speak Up 2010 survey."