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  • Teens Rank Cell Phones #1 Electronic Purchase
    By SLJ Staff - 11/17/2008
    Nearly half of all teens’ daily activities are driven by technology, with listening to music ranking as number one, says a new report from the trade organization, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). More

  • Google Plays Host to Breakthrough Learning
    Lauren Barack - 11/02/2009
    Media professionals and educators converged on Google’s campus in Mountain View, CA, to discuss technology, teaching, and new ways to enthrall children at last week’s Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age forum. More
  • Art Appreciation: SLJ reviews new resource Picturing Books
    By Shonda Brisco - 11/01/2009
    Even though I love children's picture books, I almost always cringe when a high school art student asks me to help them locate examples of titles that use "woodcuts" or "wash." While I handle these books on a daily basis, I admit that I'm not as familiar with the original media used or the style displayed within the pages of these mini museums. More
  • SLJ Reviews the Netbook Toshiba Mini NB205-N230
    By Jeffrey Hastings - 11/01/2009
    Windows 7, Microsoft’s answer to the ill-received Vista operating system, was released on October 22, just days before this review was due. I started using Windows 7 in beta last winter and was impressed by how well it performed on my old Thinkpad T40. Since then, I’ve been eager to see if Windows 7 would perform equally well on a more Spartan device: the typical netbook. More
  • K12 Online Conference Goes Global
    Lauren Barack - 10/19/2009
    Teachers, media specialists, and students around the world are gearing up for the 4th Annual K12 Online Conference—a chance for tech-savvy educators to virtually mingle and share, while those less familiar with Web 2.0 tools can learn about their use from the experts themselves. More
  • 2009 T+L Conference: Tech Tips, Budget Breaks, and Mind-Bending Toys
    Lauren Barack - 10/13/2009
    Media specialists and other members of the K–12 community are gearing up for the T+L Conference, set for Oct 28–30 in Denver. More
  • Librarians as, um, Crap Detectors
    Lauren Barack - 10/06/2009
    Frances Jacobson Harris, Joyce Valenza, and Harold Rheingold believe librarians are on the front lines in teaching students how to evaluate which sources are relevant and which are not. More
  • Web Site in a Rush: H1N1 threatening, EdReady goes up fast
    By Steve Hargadon - 10/01/2009
    If a pandemic or other significant event made it difficult or impossible for your students, staff, or teachers to physically attend school, how would you make sure that communication and education still take place? This is the question looming for educational institutions nationwide, given the potential of the H1N1 virus to disrupt or even close schools this year. More
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