Manifesto for 21st Century Teacher Librarians | Teacher Librarian Editor’s Note: This article was originally published as a Tag Team Tech column on www.voyamagazine.com. It has been reprinted and reproduced numerous times and in many places. We are making it available here to ensure that all of our readers have seen it. Manifesto for 21st Century Teacher Librarians By Joyce Kasman Valenza October 2010 A couple of summers back a young school librarian, fresh out of library school, asked a very honest question at one of our state retreats: We’re all doing different stuff. Well into the 21st century, it is clear that the concept of modern teacher librarian practice is not clear. What I know for sure is that if the Joyce who graduated from library school in 1976 (and again with a school specialty in 1988), heck, if the Joyce from the 2007/2008 school year, were to visit my library today, she would be stunned by the differences in my/our practice. And in my humble opinion some aspects of emerging practice are nonnegotiable. Reading Information Landscape 1. 2. 1.
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Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia edWeb: A professional online community for educators Follett Community : Blogs : Webinar follow-up materials: Destiny Resource Manager 8/25 What's New with Destiny Resource Manager? Everything! It's a Whole New Ballgame To be useful, any resource management solution must be designed to manage all educational, administrative and facility resource categories; from physical items and print materials, to digital resources and even services. Destiny Resource Manager is built to maintain a centralized inventory to identify all district resources and services. With Destiny Resource Manager you are able to deploy resources automatically to teachers and students via their class schedules. In short, Destiny Resource Manager helps districts in three distinct ways: Strategically: Superintendents can now see how much they have invested in educational, administrative and facility resources. Destiny Resource Manager is a part of an integrated software platform that also includes textbook, library materials, and media management systems.
Subtext Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers Michelle Luhtala/Edshelf With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country. “I wanted to make sure we had some flexibility because there’s no one app that’s better than all the others,” Luhtala said. 30Hands allows a user to make pictures, annotate them, record a voice explainer and then packages it all into a video. Adobe Voice is a recently released education product from Adobe that allows students to narrate a story over an array of digital images. Book Creator is only available for iPads, allowing kids to easily create their own iBook by importing images, multimedia, text, and audio. Tellagami is a tool to share quick animated messages. ExplainEverything is another tool for creating video like tutorials. Symphonizer is great for music classes.