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Social Networking Guru danah boyd By Debra Lau Whelan - 03/25/2009
When danah boyd talks, people listen. The academic, blogger, and rock star of social networking research has just completed her PhD dissertation, “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics." SLJ caught up with her to talk about the way American teens socialize on sites like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga, and YouTube. More
NBC Launches Science of the Olympics Site for Educators By Rocco Staino - 02/09/2010
How do physics, biology, and chemistry fit into this year’s Olympic winter games in Vancouver? NBC Learn, the network’s educational arm, has launched the Learn the Science of Olympic Winter Games Web site, which offers a free 16-part series designed to explore the science behind the speed of a bobsled or an airlift ski jump. More
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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Digital Resources: The National Science Digital Library By Shonda Brisco - 02/01/2010
As budgets get tighter and educational requirements grow broader, it's become more difficult to find science and math databases that won't devour the entire library budget. However, there's one digital database that provides standards-based instructional resources, K-12 lesson plans, digital downloads, streaming video, and 2.
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Web 2.0 in Hardcover: A recommended reading list on 2.0 and education By Steve Hargadon - 02/01/2010
I love books, especially the actual physical ones. I madly scribble notes in the margins, and stuff them with related articles as if they were file folders. I can think of no better afternoon than one spent indulging in the discovery of ideas within a library or bookstore. Here are some titles that I think significantly inform the conversation about Web 2.
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Brooklyn Tech Email Prank: A Network Security Lesson for Schools By Lauren Barack - 02/01/2010
Students at Brooklyn (NY) Technical High School (BTHS) may have been amused by a recent email prank. Yet some see the spoof message that claimed the school was closed for a day as anything but funny. “This was a benign attack, but could have been much worse,” says Kevin Jarrett, technology facilitator for K–4 students at Northfield (NJ) Community School.
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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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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. 
