Description: A discussion of information fluency, teaching, and learning in the 21st century. en-us http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html?nid=3714 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use July 16, 2009 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/740046674.html?nid=3714 Sometimes cool ideas crystalize at cocktail parties. At the ABC-CLIO reception on Saturday night, publisher Becky Snyder and I built what... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/720046672.html?nid=3714 The AASL forum discussion continues. In case you don't subscribe, I wanted to make sure you all had the opportunity to read David Loertscher'... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1590046559.html?nid=3714 Chris Harris gave me permission to repost the passionate argument he shared this week on the aaslforum@ala.org list. The post asked several c... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1600046560.html?nid=3714 Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their bo... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1240046124.html?nid=3714 It may come as no surprise that I am not particularly fond of everything I write in the space. Sometimes it makes me happy to watch my unrema... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1310046331.html?nid=3714 Good news. This morning I got an email from Jeff, the creator of VocabSushi.com. The site is now completely free. What... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/990046299.html?nid=3714 Whether you attended NECC or not, you missed stuff. ISTEvision offers highlights in the form of featured, most popular, and top rated vid... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/950046295.html?nid=3714 I wanted to give you a bit of the flavor of Edubloggercon and the scene at NECC's Bloggers' Cafe. Mark Wagner posed one of the many... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/660046266.html?nid=3714 I had no big choice to make this year. NECC and ALA did not overlap and the librarians who wanted to (or could afford to) do both, could. ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/310046031.html?nid=3714 In his blog this morning, Rafe Needleman of CNET posted an impressive list of search tools for Twitter. It forced me to realize the puniness ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1650045965.html?nid=3714 I recently blogged about the Library of Congress moving its media in a 2.0 direction. Now, just in time to mark its 75th anniversary,... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1050045905.html?nid=3714 Last Thursday, our webinar, Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don't Know Social Media? was graciously hosted by Steve Hargadon, who manage... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/510045851.html?nid=3714 This past week's uprising in Tehran confirmed the role and the power the citizen reporter. But Twitter and YouTube are not the only players. ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/100045810.html?nid=3714 Wikipedia is planning a media update. Today, MIT's Technology Review shared that the go-to reference source plans, not only ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/700045670.html?nid=3714 It was sparked by a Twitter conversation I blogged about back in April, also recorded by Darren Draper as The Ideal School Library. It's not ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/570045657.html?nid=3714 Last week a history teacher colleague told me she wouldn't waste time with Twitter because it was stupid. My resulting tirade about PLNs clea... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1680045368.html?nid=3714 Tada! It's finally done, in the mailboxes and on the website. If you have any interest in peeking into our little library world, visit ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1690045369.html?nid=3714 I've been waiting and dreaming and they're now here! I am in love with the convenience of widgets and I have bee... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/390045439.html?nid=3714 I just discovered NeoK12 from Judy O'Connell's HeyJude Blog. And I added this one to my Video Portal Pathfinder too. (You may remember... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/380045438.html?nid=3714 I've been wanting to do it for a long time, but this was the year we finally got One Book, One Springfield off the ground. I wanted to give y... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/810045281.html?nid=3714 Yesterday, very quietly, Google launched Google Squared, an interface for comparing data in tabular form. I'll let Google labs Product Manage... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1940045194.html?nid=3714 Take a look at this new collaborative tool for visualizing debate and engaging in argument. High school teachers (and students, I hope) are g... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1710045171.html?nid=3714 The New South Wales School Libraries and Information Literacy site, recently announced a new moderated discussion blog, School libraries 21C.&... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1560045156.html?nid=3714 Back in November, I posted about giving PaperBack Swap a try as a strategy for getting books our students need for free. In Comments, readers of th... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1270044927.html?nid=3714 I must admit, I've been a longtime fan of iGoogle and PageFlakes for organizing my own information life and for helping me to guide students in doi...