I have been using the social bookmarking tool Del.icio.us for some time to save and tag web pages and highly recommend it. This new tool, clipmarks, allows one to save, tag, mail, and blog just those portions of a web page (including pictures and video) that one chooses. Like del.icio.us, clipmarks also has a browser [...]

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On October 24 -27, I attended the National Conference for the American Association of School Librarians. Several school librarians from Utah attended for the first time because it was “close by.” It was, hmmm, how do I say this….., FANTASTIC!!! I am now convinced that every school librarian needs to join this organization and attend [...]

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The June 2005 issue of THE Journal contains an important article by Laura Turner entitled “20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have”. I believe every educator, and especially school librarians, should look at this list and consider how their own set of technology skills may have room for improvement. There is one item on the [...]

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It is difficult to find on the Internet a site that describes, defines, explains, and discusses Information Literacy in a way that is both comprehensive and yet clear enough that teachers can easily grasp the essential concepts and begin to implement them in their curriculum planning. A year and a half ago, I made my [...]

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This past Saturday I gave a PowerPoint Presentation called “Information Literacy: Education in the Information Age” during the 8 am session at the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) annual conference. It was a slightly revised version of the presentation I gave the previous week at the Utah Educational Library Media Association (UELMA) conference called [...]

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Today I dropped in on a science class to track down a book. The teacher was talking about the recent “Groundhog Day” and pointing out that rodent shadows and weather patterns had nothing in common. I asked if I could add something to the lesson and then told the class, “Sequence doesn’t establish causality!” I [...]

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The other day I sent a paper form to someone through our school district “pony” (inter-office mail) system. I inadvertently put my name and location, and the intended receivers name and location, on the wrong lines of the little address label we use. Of course, it came back to me. Instead of putting a new [...]

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The other day a science teacher brought her classes into the library to work on group projects. Each group was researching and preparing a class presentation regarding some aspect of the weather. The assignment was well designed and each group member had a specific assigned task within the group. One group member was designated as [...]

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I have just published an online FreEbook called “Information Literacy: A Primer for Teachers, Librarians, and other Informed People.” I believe it is a concise and useful introduction to the most important curriculum issue facing our schools in this new century. I call it a FreEbook because it is an ebook published under the Creative [...]

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