Margaret Stimson's List: Professional

"Our information environment has change dramatically in the last 20 years. Information has become increasginly networked, digital, and abundant . What does it mean to be literate in a dramatically new information environment?" Link to overview and resources used for this presentation.

Workshop on Personal Learning Networks. Presenter was Donna DesRoches, Learning Resources Consultant in North Battleford, Saskatchewan at the Saskatchewan IT Summit - E-merging Learning on March 23, 2009

Good example of Netvibes used for professional purposes.This is maintained by Donna DesRoches, a Learning Resources Consultant in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.

AASL Learning Standards in Graphical Form-Consider these models of the AASL Learning Standards for the 21st Century Learner. [pdf]

Look at the links on the left of the wiki!\nLM_NET is dedicated to school library media specialists worldwide, and to people involved with the school library media field.\n\nLM_NET SHARE--our files, images, lessons, handouts, rubrics, presentations, etc.--anything that doesn't fit on the listserv. Let us demonstrate how teacher-librarians can use new landscapes to create serious professional tools.

5 minute video. David Warlick and teachers in Qatar gather to talk about being a Master Learner and teacher in the 21st Century.

LIBRARY AND MEDIA CENTER FACILITIES DESIGN--K-12--NCEF's resource list of links, books, and journal articles on the design and planning of K-12 school libraries, including sample city and state guidelines, and resources on technology requirements.

This section on school library facilities will mainly focus on renovation and new building projects. However facility planning is needed for other projects; i.e., closing a library, moving a collection or portion of a collection, disaster recovery, etc.

"The school library provides information and ideas that are fundamental to functioning successfully in today's information and knowledge-based society."

Thinkfinity@yourlibrary: Specially designed librarian page of Thinkfinity.org for engaging interactive games and tools, homework help, and more

Blue Skunk? As I understand it, early explorers attempted to give this part of Minnesota the Lakota name for "blue earth" - mah-kah-toe. Somehow this got changed to man-kay-toe, the Lakota word for "blue skunk."

Twitter enables "keep it short" social networking. The Twitter for Teachers wiki provides a directory of twittering educators. See teacher librarian Joyce Valenza's Twitter at http://twitter.com/joycevalenza . If you are a twittering educator, you also may like some of the Twitter apps at http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/socialmedia/twitterapps.html. The Schlib Twitter is at http://twitter.com/schlib. Look at Learning Professionals on Twitter for even more tweets from educators. Lurking is allowed.

List of good tools for the classroom or library along with tips on how to best use them.

Many excellent resources such as interactive web resources, lesson plans, pdf support files, Quick Time video excerpts, and activities for K-12 in many subject areas . You will be required to register the first time you use Teacher Domain. If you cannot find your school in the registration process, just add it. There is no cost to register. More than 333,000 educators in 177 countries use Teachers' Domain products, apparently.

National School Library Day\nThe Canadian Association for School Libraries (CASL) was formed when the members of The Association for Teacher-Librarianship in Canada (ATLC) and The Canadian School Library Association (CSLA) recognized the need for one strong national organization and voted to unify efforts for school library programs and for teacher-librarianship in Canada.

Canadian and international associations

The mission of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) is to provide an international forum for those people interested in promoting effective school library media programs as viable instruments in the educational process. IASL also provides guidance and advice for the development of school library programs and the school library profession. IASL works in cooperation with other professional associations and agencies.

Teach the World | Teacher Videos | Lesson Plan Videos | Student Video Lessons | Online Teacher Made Videos | TeacherTube.com \n\nTeacherTube Upload has an Unlimited MB maximum file size

Library 2.0 Gang round-table podcasts are accessible at\nhttp://librarygang.talis.com/ or through iTunes.

Library Learning Walk Tool [pdf] is a tool for envisioning an effective school library