April is Poetry Month

If you are looking for poetry resources on the 
Internet, there is information for you
on the Schlib Poetry List at Diigo
 http://www.diigo.com/list/schlib/poetry .

It could be that you have other favorite sites 
 use during the upcoming
Poetry Month. Please share those by adding a 
comment for this blog entry. (If by e-mail -- schlib at merlin.mb.ca )

AASL Learning Standards in Graphical Form

Consider these models of the AASL Learning Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/tlmag/Dec08p47-53.pdf

Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/user/schlib/

Diigo is the social bookmarking tool that just got a Schlib workout. The links from our tools page, kidlit page and wiki sidebar have been added to the links from e-mail messages written in the last couple of months. As time goes along, more of the archived emailed links will be added to Diigo. We'll start by adding Poetry Month and Earth Day links from amongst those archived. We'll also get some more good links up there for the library techs. Future blog entries can be created directly from Diigo which will save time.

So..now there's a Schlib wiki, a listserv with an e-message archive, a blog, a Netvibes portal, a Twitter account and a social bookmarking site for quick access to links.

Schlib on Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/user/schlib/

iLibrarian

Visit http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/10-websites-for-book-lovers/ to see the recommended book lover web sites. Don't overlook the left sidebar with other popular postings such as:

• 40 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians – Part Two
• 4 Ways to Spice up your Presentations
• A Librarian’s Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides

Thanks to @courosa on Twitter for pointing to these resources.

Tapped In

There is a TappedIn session for Librarians today. More about that further down this message.

A quick read of a recent TappedIn session transcript led to these links:
Shmoop
http://www.shmoop.com/
If you're looking for more information about Literature, American History and Poetry, visit Shmoop. Here's a note from the organization..."We wanted to let you know
that we have instructions for how to cite Shmoop content (in MLA, ALA, or Chicago styles). Shmoop is an academically credible resource, produced by Ph.D.
and Masters students from Stanford and Berkeley. We want students and teachers to cite Shmoop with pride and confidence." http://www.shmoop.com/help/cite-shmoop

WigFlip
http://wigflip.com/
Points to toys and tools on the web. If you feel like experimenting with some of the newest Web 2.0 tools, check it out.

Classtools.net
http://classtools.net/
"Classtools.net provides free, customizable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites. "
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Targeting Librarians! eBooktalks -Why, How, When
March 18th, 2009 4:30 PM PDT U.S. Pacific Time [GMT-08:00]
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
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Transcripts of Past Sessions [pdf]
http://tappedin.org/archive/transcripts/
If you miss the above session or any other, you can still learn from it. The transcripts will eventually be online at TappedIn.
Reading the transcripts of TappedIn is akin to reading your great-grandmother's old letters. There's always something of value, but you have to skim through a lot of chit-chat to get to it.
Practical suggestions are always shared and often blended with links to resources that you might never hear about otherwise.

Calendar of Tappedin Sessions
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/do/CalendarAction
There are lots of other sessions upcoming that will be of interest to teachers at all levels and library staff members. Register if you'd like to participate in a session. It's a simple process.

You can follow at least one of the leaders on Twitter. Sue Roseman @sroseman

Ideas to Inspire

The Ideas to Inspire site is the result of teacher collaboration combined with the extra effort of Mark Warner [http://twitter.com/markw29]

http://ideastoinspire.co.uk/

Here's Mark's description: Ideas to Inspire is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas. The presentations are a collaboration amongst lots of fantastic teachers around the world.

BCTLA Bookmark Journal Online

It used to be that we'd look forward to receiving each print copy of the BCTLA Bookmark Journal in our school division library. It was one of the few journals that escaped the three year weeding rule that we applied to other periodicals. The stack of Bookmarks was protected in a secret place and often shared with our TLs.

Now you can download your own copy of the BCTLA Bookmark Journal at http://bctf.ca/bctla/pub/bookmark.html

Tag Cloud

Tag Crowd
http://www.tagcrowd.com/
Similar to Wordle. Here's a sample tag cloud for the Infozone

Who is Following You?

TwitterSheep
http://twittersheep.com
Gathers a word cloud based on the bios of your followers. Clearly Schlib at Twitter is being followed by the right people:) The words "librarian", "school", "geek", "professor" and "teacher" were also in the cloud but do not show in the image below. Thanks to http://twitter.com/kjarrett for the site suggestion.

Graphic Books Bestsellers - List

Did you know that the New York Times has added a new best seller list to the collection?

It's the Graphic Books Bestsellers list. The March 5th announcement is at http://bit.ly/bMY1k

Teachers' Domain

You might wish to look at the Teachers' Domain at http://www.teachersdomain.org/ where you will find 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.

The site is searchable by keyword and grade level.

The literacy web site component at Teachers' Domain was announced in the School Library Journal blog on March 4th. Sources: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6641985.html and http://twitter.com/sljournal/status/1285953612

Social studies topics covered in the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection include: Mayan Civilization and more . Science topics include: Action/Reaction, Adaptations for Surviving Winter, Continental Drift and more.

More About Twitter

CNN Video
Why Twitter is All the Rage
http://bit.ly/r9xUh

Twitter for Teachers
http://twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com/
Twitter enables "keep it short" social networking. The Twitter for Teachers wiki provides a directory of twittering educators. 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.

News Organizations on Twitter
http://bit.ly/3wGg

Celebrities on Twitter
http://bit.ly/AEffO

Twitter Song

MSLA LIT Forum

The Manitoba School Library Association held the LIT Forum in February. Several forward thinking teachers/teacher-librarians Heather Eby, Rhonda Morrissette, Jo-Anne Gibson and Michael Friesen formed a panel that aimed to inspire others to use Web 2.0 tools and techniques in their classrooms and libraries.

You can access the links recommended by these professionals at the Wired Librarian blog