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" If there’s one thing I love almost as much as books, it’s making lists of books.Books I own, books I own that I haven’t read, books I own that have purple covers- whatever. While I used to do this on a spreadsheet, the internet has kindly provided a digital way to catalogue my books with the ADDED BONUS of allowing me to interact with other bookish folks. The two most popular book cataloguing/social networking sites seem to be Goodreads and LibraryThing."
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Yesterday Google released a trove of timelapse images that offers, it believes, 'the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public.' Featuring a quarter-century of images taken from space by NASA and the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history. Via Nik Peachey
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This one has a lot of potential! 
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April 28, 10:07 AM
The City of Naples WEB APP used a storyboard which tell the story of naples development via a map--- map story is similiar. Should make us think how we need to get georgraphy back into schools integrated with history and ecnonmics. Delete the scoop?
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A place to join a network of authors willing to Skype into classrooms to speak with teachers and children.
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A great resource to find authors who will Skype with students at school. I can't wait to use this! Delete the scoop?
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Visit this site to learn all the tips and tricks for using Google Earth as a teaching tool.
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Satellite images from Google Earth's archive are now being used to see the impact of climate change over time. This site offers some great instructional ideas, plans and free downloadable layers (kwl) files that can be used with Google Earth to create interactive presentations. Cool. Delete the scoop?
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A list of the best quotes about libraries and librarians, together with quotes that you can share as images. Via Dr. Steve Matthews
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This will come in hand! 
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April 21, 8:48 AM
Just sent this out to my LMSs. This is so true! They all have a servant's heart. Delete the scoop?
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NEW YORK -- Here's a list "Fifty Shades of Grey" was destined to make: The books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves. On Monday, E L James' multimillion selling erotic trilogy placed No. Delete the scoop?
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Guest Post by Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, teachers at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey 
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April 20, 9:27 AM
Another reason to study curriculum maps for opportunities to suggest informational text/nonfiction readings. Delete the scoop?
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Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing ways libraries bring information, entertainment, and learning to patrons with special needs.
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Great list of adapative technology being used in school and public libraries. Delete the scoop?
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"School librarians remain deeply divided over Dewey, but for most, its staying power is a matter of practicality. While the system is flawed, a complete overhaul of all those call numbers and spine labels is simply impossible. And yet, given CC’s requirements around informational texts, it makes sense for us to consider whether or not our current classification system best serves students’ interests.. . " Delete the scoop?
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Getty Technology has often been called a democratizer in education, allowing students from all backgrounds to access the same resources and tools. Others Delete the scoop?
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In her TED talk, "Gaming Can Make a Better World," author and researcher Jane McGonigal posits that in game worlds people are "motivated to do something that matters, inspired to collaborate, to coo Delete the scoop?
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Pam Colburn Harland's comment,
April 23, 4:55 PM
Great post! I especially like the part about setting goals... I want all of our goals to be "user-centered" goals!
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Last month a Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) directive seemed to require that copies of Marjane Satrapi’s memoir Persepolis be removed from classrooms an...
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"Librarians have faith in readers, regardless of their age, to take what they need from texts. We work to find reasons to include materials in our libraries’ collections. A school librarian friend of mine, who has fought her own battles with censorship, told me, “Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if ,when one wants to raise that ugly word of ‘censor,’ he would first be required to state the positive sides of a read? Where it could be used? How it might benefit someone?” Delete the scoop?
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This is a useful site where science games are annotated and reviewed by users including eduactors and gamers. Delete the scoop?
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Why doesn’t the research on school libraries resonate with educational policymakers and funding allocators? (Library: An interesting read on school libraries. Via Karen Bonanno 
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April 20, 2:29 AM
"Four decades of research from Canada, the U.S., and Australia indicates that well-staffed, well-stocked, and well-used school libraries are correlated with increases in student achievement on the order of 4 percent to 20 percent, as measured on student performance on standardized tests, overall school performance, and student performance in reading comprehension and in academic subjects.[1] Other studies have shown improvements in students’ attitudes towards reading and in the collaborative nature of school culture.[2]"
Desicions are obviously made blindfolded... Very sad reading, still hoping that the research results would in the long run make a difference. We need to be more vigorous in advocating! Greeyings, Anu 
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April 20, 3:27 AM
We need to keep fighting and collating evidence. We are necessary so we need to shout louder!
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Providing our children with the best educational resources and empowering all our children to access, evaluate, and use information for academic and personal learning - this is the critical mission of school libraries and librarians.
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Imagine a young girl starting school in the North African country of Mauritania. What are the chances she will continue to secondary school or even universi
Very good. I love the use of data and statistics in this online learning tool.
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ccMixter is a community remix site sponsored by ArtisTech Media, created by Creative Commons
This site is the real-deal for remxing audio using the Creative Commons license. Created by ArsTechnica Media for exploring and sharing.
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Great news! Skype's Group Video Calling can be used free of charge for K-12 educators.
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