Librarians

__** Resources for Librarians **__

The progression of the librarian and the research student
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==**__SHOWCASING! What's going on out there? __** ==

===** Mapping from Paper to Digital ** === Best Practice 1 - Amazing on-line text book created by two high school teachers and their kids [|Best Practice 2] - Sahara Caravan Project - 7th Grader Geography Project

===**Moving Outside the Cl****assroo****m** === [|Best Practice 3] - Video Chat with an author [|Best Practice 4] - Building Legacy

==  __Learning from others - Twitter, your PLN and all those really cool people out there!__ ==


 * [|http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23counselors]
 * [|http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23librarians]
 * [|http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23library]


 * Mr. Shue's School Blog and his Site with Shannon McClintock Miller
 * Joyce Valenza's Blog Her school's Virtual Library
 * James Kennedy's 90 Second Newbery Site
 * Shannon McClintock Miller, Shannon's Elementary Blog and Secondary Blog and her Secondary site
 * Sarah Houghton's Blog
 * Various Librarian Bloggers
 * Joyce's CV site

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==__** Social Bookmarking - Diigo and Delicious ** __==
 * Diigo Toolbar
 * Tags you chose are CRITICAL

== __Critical Thinking and Information Literacy__ ==

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I LOVE Gleanwhois! It puts all those critical thinking resources together in one place!

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Search Terms to add: === Interactive School or Schools "Online Resources" "Technology Resources"

You can find great things like this School created Wiki for Texas with great resources for anyone by searching site:k12.*.us

__<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Google Docs __

 * Custom Search Engine
 * Librarians should lead in setting one up for upper and lower Elementary.
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forms ===
 * Could have the students do book reviews online via google forms. Move the good ones to a wiki or your teacher page!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Docs
 * Editing and sharing documents

=Great Resources for YOU!=

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 * Children's Library - OVER 4643 books online!
 * Super3
 * Big6
 * Big6 Presentations!
 * Book Trailers
 * Finding Dulcinea
 * Some of Joyce's presentations!!
 * Content and Tools for Librarians
 * Best websites for Teaching and Learning
 * Web 2.0 Tools Librarians should know
 * Books - Littlebirdtales, Lulu and Blurb

=Curators=

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 * Content Curators How can you work WITH your Technology teacher? Why is it so important?
 * Great examples!
 * Virtual Learning Commons and Knowledge Building Centers - []
 * Book2Cloud - []

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__Some Great Teacher 2.0 Resources__

 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Skype a Teacher] - Check out this great list of other teachers who will Skype with you - Check out the Directory and then the comments at the bottom. Think school to school debate!
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Skype an Author] - Reach out to book authors
 * [|Kathy Schrock's Guide for Rubrics]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|RCampus_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Create rubrics and search through hundreds already made. Easy to post to your website too.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Recipes4Success_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Create your own Rubrics and then edit with standard suggestions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Quizlet_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Terrific for making quizzes and practicing vocabulary
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Study Stack_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Another Vocabulary tool
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Polleverywhere_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Terrific for gathering questions on an assignment or engaging students in a thoughtful discussion
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|ietherpad_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Interactive, synchronous tool for collaboration
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Wallwisher_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Like an online bulletin board for ideas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|KidBlog_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - You can set it so kids' comments are immediately up without your moderating their comments first. Just make it private.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|GoogleMaps Directory] - Place to see all of the gadgets/widgets you can use in Google Maps
 * [|Google Lit Trips]

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Podcasting and Audio**
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 11pt; padding-right: 10px;">[|Vocaroo]

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Pics you can use in projects ===
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Pics 4 Learning] **
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; padding-right: 10px;">[|Flickr pics under a creative commons license] **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**__Community & Funding__**
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #800080; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; padding-right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Donors Choose]