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Hello everyone, On Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday (April 13th to the 15th) I was at the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC) Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum in Vancouver. This was a rather unique experience in Canada. Educators, learners and literacy providers from West to East and into the North were gathered together to discuss themes such as Aboriginal Literacy, early literacy and workplace literacy. Since we were meeting by webcast with people across the country, we… Continue

Hello everyone, I had the opportunity to attend the OSLA/OLA Superconference in Toronto, Ontario last week. It is considered to be one of the best librarian and teacher librarian conference in Canada. Mother nature threw us a major snowstorm of 20+ cm on Thursday but we managed well in the conference centre. I was present at two important launches while I was there. A group from the Ministry of Education in Ontario and the Ontario School Librarian Association have just tabled a draft document fo… Continue

Hello everyone, From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog comes the upcoming Wow2 Schedule. From the Blog: Every Tuesday night at 9pm EST, I meet with three dear friends over at edtechtalk.com to co-host the Wow2 show. (See the archive of past shows and this is the RSS feed to add it to your podcasts.) Put March 4 on your calendar: Doug Johnson AND Joyce Valenza are the invited guests. http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2008/01/upcoming-wow2-schedule.html The post gives further details and links about… Continue

Hi everyone, I am pleased to post this information. Congratulations to Laura Amy Schlitz from Park School in Baltimore. Additional information can be viewed below. Park School librarian wins Newbery Medal for children's literature Baltimore Sun January 15th, 2008 By Mary Carole McCauley and Jill Rosen | Sun Reporters http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/booksmags/bal-lifestyle-newberry-0114,0,1829647.story?coll=bal_sports_baseball_util Richard Beaudry Teacher Librarian

Hi everyone, I came across this article in the Grand Rapids Press. It describes librarians as thus: "Today's librarians are high-tech information Hardy Boys and Nancy Drews, masters of mining cool databases and wizards at "wikis" -- a Web site or other online resource that allows users to edit content -- as well as social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace." More information can be found at: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grpress/index.ssf?/base/features-2/1199717125148890… Continue