Doodle for Google Contest Lauren Barack - 02/08/2010
Google invites K–12 public and private students to pick up a pen, pencil, paintbrush, or mouse between now and March 31, 2010, to create an illustration that best expresses this year's Doodle 4 Google theme: “If I Could Do Anything I Would…”
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Dumping on 'Digital Natives.’ It's time to send the natives, immigrants dichotomy packing. By Christopher Harris - 02/01/2010
Forget all that malarky about digital natives and immigrants. It never did work to describe the reality of technology adoption. I’ve been using computers all of my life. But am I still a digital native even if I don’t tweet as much as others and can’t be bothered to update my Facebook status? Is someone like retired librarian and educator Alice Yucht a digital immigrant becaus...
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Fight Content Filters By Lauren Barack - 02/01/2010
Buffy Hamilton thinks one shouldn’t take online content filters lying down, but instead build a well-supported case to get them removed. “I think out of an effort to be proactive, keep children safe, and avoid litigation, schools may err on the safe side,” says Hamilton, school librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, GA.
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Choose Privacy: It's 2010. Do you know where your personal information is? By Christopher Harris - 01/01/2010
It’s 2010. Do you know where your personal information is? Unless you rang in the New Year from some off-the-grid cave, much of your digital identity is out there floating freely around the Net. Going online requires a careful balancing act, in which users must weigh both privacy and participation, caution and convenience.
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Future Shock: It takes five magazines to figure out tomorrow By Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief - 01/01/2010
About a year ago, when I was at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Denver, I joined the editors of some of the other school librarian magazines for drinks (I only had a diet Coke!) and dinner. Around the table were gathered Debbie Abilock (Knowledge Quest), Gail Dickinson (LMC, Library Media Connection), Deb Levitov (School Library Monthly), and David Loertscher and B...
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Videos, Games Help Preschool Literacy, Study Says By SLJ Staff - 12/01/2009
Do videos and interactive games help kids better prepare for kindergarten? According to a new study, low-income children in preschool classrooms improved their literacy skills when their teachers incorporated video and online technology into the curriculum.
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Calgary Board of Ed to Unveil First Learning Commons By Lauren Barack - 11/11/2009 The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) in Canada is revamping the role school libraries play in the lives of students by unveiling a learning commons, where books and other resources are combined with the latest technology and highly trained staff to create a virtual and physical space for teaching and learning.
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2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99.
Gr 1-5–A veteran of Noggin Channel and PBS Kids, Frezza created these eight exceptional rock ‘n roll songs for elementary grade children who are too old for Raffi, but not old enough for adult pop music.
Friends and colleagues of the late Effie Lee Morris may enjoy this photo of the children's librarian, which Nicholas Glass, founder and executive director of Teachingbooks.net, recently found on his computer. It was taken at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and features (from left) Ashley Bryan, Christopher Myers, and Morris, also an advocate for children's literature and library service to youngsters with impaired vision, who died of cancer on November 10, 2009.
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Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99. 
