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Marshavenuelibrary - home. SlimeKids - School Library Media Kids. The Adventures of Library Girl. Kansas Public Schools’  Library Media Center Standards. Arkansas School Facilities Manual Arkansas Library Media Wiki 21 st Century Skills as they apply to Library Media Centers (not a requirement, but a "catch phrase" for a set of frameworks that include Information Media and Technology Skills) An attempt to financially support this initiative on a federal level failed, but a modified bill has been introduced.

Arkansas is not one of the 10 states that currently have state initiatives. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as they apply to Arkansas Library Media Centers Adopted by Arkansas' State Board of Education on July 12, 2010, CCSS "integrates media and technology throughout the standards. " Accreditation Minimum Requirements, Etc. Details from AdvancED Media Standard 3. Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That's what we're trying to do.

If you've done something at your library that you consider a success, please write about it in the wiki or provide a link to outside coverage. If you have materials that would be helpful to other librarians, add them to the wiki. And if you know of a librarian or a library that is doing something great, feel free to include information or links to it. This wiki is not run by any commercial entity and does not represent any commercial interests. Community. Big6 Resources. Children's Book Reviews by StorySnoops - Home (Find-A-Book) and Holiday Reading Lists. 2¢ Worth. Listen A few weeks ago I worked and attended North Carolina's ISTE affiliate conference. I opened the NCTIES conference with a breakfast keynote address and Marc Prensky closed it with a luncheon keynote the next day. Sadly, I missed the second day of the conference. I would first offer some constructive criticism to NCTIES , and to all such ed-tech conferences across the nation and around the world.

You do a fabulous job of offering dynamic learning experiences for teachers who are new to teaching or new to utilizing contemporary information and communication technologies in their classrooms. What I find missing are opportunities for those of us who have been around the 10, 20 or 30 years. I attended a number of excellent and very well received and appreciated presentations, that did very little for me. The only idea I can think of is to have one or two session rooms devoted to unconference topics.

Now to the surprises “No software. Seeing this was energizing to me. And then, Is this true? READINGPOWER. Joyce Valenza's Neverending Search. The Unquiet Librarian.