Hello everyone,
This report identifies and describes emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education.
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf
Richard
Added by Richard Beaudry on April 6, 2009 at 1:48pm —
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Added by Dennis O'Connor on April 5, 2009 at 3:16pm —
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This book was so very interesting, so very painful, so very revealing, and gave real insight to the effect of paranoid schizophrenics who live on the streets. Steve Lopez's quick stop one day to listen to an African American homeless man playing violin in a tunnel reverberating with speeding cars, and the sounds of Skid Row, proves to be fortuitous for both men. Lopez's efforts to get this Juilliard trained musician into "safe" housing was met at every turn with Ayer's obstinate will to be…
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Added by bj neary on April 4, 2009 at 7:28pm —
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Hello everyone,
Every so often, The Guardian newspaper in England post an online literary quiz for its readers. The latest was posted yesterday. For those wishing a challenge, here is the link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2009/apr/02/spring-literature-quiz
Richard
Richard Beaudry
Librarian
Langley Secondary
Added by Richard Beaudry on April 3, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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One of my favorite blogs to read is
Librarians Matter by Australian librarian Kathryn Greenhill. Recently, she worked with fellow librarians John Blyberg and Cindi Trainor on writing a statement on the future of libraries. The end result is the
Darian Statements on the Library and Librarians.
The document is posted on John Blyberg's blog
Blyberg.net - A library Geek…
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Added by Richard Beaudry on April 3, 2009 at 2:26pm —
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UNESCO, Library of Congress and partners launch World Digital Library
From the Unesco Website:
UNESCO and 32 partner institutions will launch the World Digital Library, a web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world, at UNESCO Headquarters on 21 April. The site will include manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, and prints and photographs. It will provide unrestricted public access, free of charge, to…
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Added by Richard Beaudry on April 2, 2009 at 11:50pm —
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About three months ago I started a small campaign to increase the profile of libraries in Bangkok, mostly via the website
http://bangkoklibrary.com. As a teacher of English as a foreign language, I was keen to find out as much as possible about libraries in Bangkok, to develop good reading habits in my students and to find resources for expats and people like me living in Thailand. There are some really great libraries here - many of which are packed…
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Added by Brian on April 2, 2009 at 1:08am —
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From the blog LIS News comes the following article. It would seem that this will be beneficial to librarians.
New Legislation to Revise National Security Letters
April 1, 2009 - 10:09pm — AndyW
http://lisnews.org/new_legislation_revise_national_security_letters
Added by Richard Beaudry on April 2, 2009 at 12:35am —
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Flocabulary Launches ‘The Week in Rap’ - A Week's Worth of News, Rapped
– Teen-Friendly News Delivery Helps Spark Classroom Discussion About Current Events –
OMW...it's about time! ...i suspect inspired by E! News - The Daily 10's Hollywood Rap-Up where each week, rapper Infinite-
1 condenses all of the top stories into an extremely funky rap now we have that same idea but but classroom…
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Added by gwyneth jones on March 31, 2009 at 10:30am —
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Hello everyone,
For the 4th year running, the Dublin City Public Libraries is encouraging all Dubliners to read and discuss one book during the month of April.
This year: Dracula by Bram Stoker.
There will be events throughout the city for the month of April.
For more information: http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/
Richard Beaudry
Librarian
Langley Secondary School
Added by Richard Beaudry on March 30, 2009 at 3:14pm —
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Our freshmen English classes have just begun to use a Ning in their I-Search project. Has your school done this? Happily the library instigated it when the department chair came to me to ask how we (library) might creatively contribute to the project.
We've rolled out 3 Nings for the three freshman teachers late last week ( Ning.com was great at removing ads after getting a request from me) -- a few bumps but so far working. Will keep you posted.
Added by Jean M Bruce on March 30, 2009 at 9:40am —
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Hi! If there is anyone out there interested in poetry, I have had a book of poems published entitled Sweet Sorrow. I am very proud of this and it is available for purchase at www.amazon.com or www.publishamerica.com I feel these poems are very easy to relate to.
Added by Sarah Heukrath on March 29, 2009 at 4:03pm —
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Does anyone have any suggestions, apart from perhaps Googling the 1964 Civil Rights Act, regarding gender equity in the library world? Thanks for your help.
Added by Larry Retzack on March 28, 2009 at 8:28pm —
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From the website NetworkWorld comes the following article.
Library of Congress embraces YouTube, iTunes
The Washington, D.C., library will begin uploading its digital materials to online services
By Grant Gross , IDG News Service , 03/27/2009
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032709-library-of-congress-embraces-youtube.html
Added by Richard Beaudry on March 28, 2009 at 7:14pm —
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From the Information Literacy Weblog comes information on a new online professional journal for librarians in Norway:
Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education (NORIL) is a peer reviewed open access journal. Information literacy is a multidisciplinary field as it is the subject of both academic research, as well as of library pedagogical practice. The development of knowledge in the field is nourished by perspectives from different academic diciplines, such as…
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Added by Richard Beaudry on March 28, 2009 at 7:08pm —
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WARNING: this is a very rambling & gushy blog
so who's goin to MICCA, NECC or AASL? anyone?
if so, are you presenting? and if so, what? i wanna catch it!
i'm representing Md. Digital Libraries at NECC (thanks Carol!!)...Whoohooo!
sounds silly but i do so much out of pocket this is a super thrill! sure, i have to go to EVERY sesssion & report back to my peeps in my county and do some PD but no big whoop!…
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Added by gwyneth jones on March 28, 2009 at 11:30am —
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I am at the end of a Web 2.0 class and choosing a social networking site is Thing 19. I really like the way this Ning is set up and look forward to using it often!
Added by Pat Dedicos on March 25, 2009 at 9:12pm —
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Added by Mark Cruthers on March 25, 2009 at 1:13am —
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In the just in case you wanted to know category- Christopher Bell and I are presenting a online workshop with School Library Journal...Technology on a shoestring- big tools for small budgets. The webcast will be Tuesday, 3/24. We're going to demo all kinds of free tools. Register online and join us if you would like! Most of you probably know the tools, but if you want to hop on so that you can laugh at my foibles- feel free!…
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Added by guybrarian on March 23, 2009 at 11:42am —
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PhotoPeach is easy to use, load in pictures and you can put in slides as pictures if you want more text, add music and then you can go in and put about a line of text under the images.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MARCH 2009 on…
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Added by bj neary on March 19, 2009 at 12:06pm —
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