The best digital content for children and teens from School Library Journal
Batter up! Baseball Goes Online By Staff - 05/01/2008
Just in time for baseball season, the Library of Congress (LOC) has assembled a Web clearinghouse devoted to America’s pastime. The simply named “Historic Baseball Resources” (www.loc.gov/topics/baseball) features multimedia offerings from the library’s vast trove, including rare images of early games and the original sheet music to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
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IXL Math By Kathy Ishizuka - 05/01/2008
www.ixl.com/math For members of the right-brain camp—like me—math can be a particular challenge. So it’s especially important for young learners to get a firm handle on the basics. And you know what that means—practice. The online resource IXL Math is a welcome alternative to dreary worksheets, presenting math quizzes for students in Pre-K to grade 3 in a visual way.
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'OMG!' Electronic Communication Isn't 'Writing,' Teens Say Joan Oleck - 04/30/2008
Although today’s teens are constantly text messaging, IMing, and emailing, don’t accuse them of writing. According to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing, teens believe that writing only takes place in school and on paper—not on cell phones, Web sites, or blogs.
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TikaTok Turns Kids into Authors Lauren Barack - 04/28/2008
There's nothing like letting a child choose their bedtime story—and having one of those titles be their own.
Through the new site TikaTok, children can compose the mysteries, adventures, and fantasies bursting from their imaginations, post them online for friends and others to read, and even print the tale for their bookshelf at home.
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Are You and Papa Hemingway a Match? Lauren Barack - 04/14/2008
There's nothing like snooping through a person's library to sneak a peak at what they’re reading. Now bibliophiles can compare their fave books to those of Ernest Hemingway—just the latest name to join the “I See Dead People[’s Books]” list, an online repository that attempts to catalog the complete libraries of history's more famous readers.
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Flickr Enters Online Video Market SLJ Staff - 04/09/2008
Yahoo!’s photo-sharing site Flickr has added something new: homemade videos. Aimed at amateurs who want to share short video clips with family and friends, the video technology will compete head-to-head with Google’s YouTube, a widely popular video site.
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Digital Resources: Scholastic, Rand McNally Bring the Fun Back By Shonda Brisco - 04/01/2008
If your students need help in areas of science and math, or if they hate the thought of plowing through maps, globes, and atlases, there are two new products that are certain to bring some fun back into these subject areas—and it just might inspire some creative collaboration between you and your science, math, or history teachers.
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Brian Unbound Brian Kenney, Editor in Chief, May 3, 2007 Does Print Still Matter?
Not to spoil the plot, but of course print still matters. But electronic content is c... More
Podcasts are a great way to expand learning beyond the classroom or library. Here are more recommendations from Tech Chicks Anna Adam and Helen Mowers, following up their Dec. 2007 article Listen Up!
K-Gr 7–Children’s music doesn’t get much better than these 16 songs by Pomes in a Pail. What began at a writer’s workshop resulted in an amazing collaboration that combined the clever words of Alexander Jenny and the music of Karena Mendoza and Stephanie Snow.
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