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Looking for an authentic strategy for inspiring student writing? Joyce Valenza recommends Tellitmyway, a new nonprofit site, which she describes as a "living, breathing example of the oral tradition in the digital age."
A decade after the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) went into effect, its implementation in schools and public libraries is problematic and the scale of Internet filtering is excessive, panelists said during the ALA Midwinter session "Revisiting The Children's Internet Protection Act: 10 Years Later."
With a society that's growing increasingly diverse, librarians should proactively integrate cultural aspects of “diverse linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic groups” into programs and services.
An alternative to Google Hangouts, the Learning Revolution Project lets you use a free public Blackboard Collaborate room to host your own education-related webinar.
O’Reilly Media and Safari Books Online will donate over $100 Million in technology resources to US K-12 schools. The pledge is part of $750 million in new corporate support for President Obama’s ConnectED initiative, along with donations from Apple, Microsoft, Sprint, and Autodesk.
Rebecca Forth doesn’t want kids to simply play Minecraft, she wants them to design their own worlds in the virtual building game. They can do just that and learn the necessary coding skills in a program set to launch at the Healdsburg branch of the Sonoma County (CA) Library in March 2014.
There's nothing like a book recommendation from a friend. Encourage students to share their opinions by creating a student-driven book review site. Richard Byrne shows you how in the accompanying screencasts.
A collaborative project of the Library of Congress, Brigham Young University and the Ad Council, “Readers to the Rescue” is a "visual mad-lib set" inside a library inhabited by a cast of storybook characters, including Pinocchio, Humpty-Dumpty and Sleeping Beauty.
Feedback this month ranges from the defense of librarians who embrace technology to support for Isabel Allende's novel The House of the Spirits, which is still being challenged by parents in a North Carolina school district.